But the 5-year-old mare might be as difficult to read as she is talented. Scattered among her stakes wins and graded stakes placings are well-beaten efforts in both graded and ungraded races, including a puzzling sixth place finish in last September’s B
Trained by Joe Orseno, Happy My Way won three of four starts over Gulfstream’s main track after being switched from turf to dirt last season, capturing a pair of optional claiming allowance sprints and the $100,000 Sir Shackleton Stakes. The son of Wilk
Owned by Dutrow’s major client, Alex and JoAnn Lieblong of Conway, Ark., The Big Beast hasn’t started since winning the $500,000 King’s Bishop Stakes (G1) Aug. 23 at Saratoga. The Big Beast subsequently underwent surgery to remove a tiny bone chip f
The late Jim Tafel’s 5-year-old Louisiana defending champion Fordubai has also served notice in the mornings that he may be a force with which to reckon on Jan. 17. A notoriously slow workhorse, the son of E Dubai shot out an uncharacteristic bullet on
VICTOR ESPINOZA, APPEALING TALE, SECOND: “He got caught a little wide. The (nine) horse (Blue Tone) in front of me drifted out a little, but I was already there so there wasn’t much I could do; I just had to go with it. He ran great though. Coming off
VICTOR ESPINOZA, ROCK SHANDY, SECOND: “He went very nice. I think he’s going to be a nice colt; he’s still trying to figure it out, he’s still green. I think he’ll be better on the dirt rather than the turf. The way he works in the morning, I’
Ol Donyo and Flores Island are the two most prominent horses of the Wolfson contingent and are fully expected to start. Ol Donyo finished a fast-closing third behind Merry Meadow in the six-furlong Sugar Swirl (G3) at Gulfstream Park on Dec. 13. “She di
The first stakes for newly turned 3-year-olds on the 2015 calendar attracted 25 nominations for the fourth running of the race formerly known as the Gulfstream Park Derby and now named in honor of the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Classic champion. Mawthooq, one o
Irad Ortiz, Jr., winning jockey aboard Salutos Amigos (No. 4): "I got a perfect trip, he broke well and sat just off the lead. I tried not to use him up early and had plenty of horse for the finish. I got the chance to go inside in the stretch and had ple
“He’s doing OK,†Klesaris said. “There was nothing career-ending or life-threatening. He had a pretty good laceration above his eye and on the corner of his eye, and he had a little bit of plastic surgery. He just looked like he came out of a priz
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