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03/07/2014

Gulfstream Park News & Notes - Fri 3/7

Runner-up by a head to Wildcat Red in the $400,000 Besilu Stables Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream on Feb. 22, General a Rod will have his first work since the race on Saturday morning over the main track. “He’s doing fine. We just want a slow, ea

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03/06/2014

BAFFERT’S BAYERN LIKELY FAVORITE IN SATURDAY’S SAN FELIPE STAKES

A gate to wire winner on Feb. 13, he was a first-out, 3 ¼ length maiden winner going seven furlongs in his debut Jan. 4. Bayern, a Kentucky-bred colt by Offlee Wild, has been odds-on in both of his starts and will again be guided by Gary Stevens, who wil

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03/05/2014

EPIC REMATCH BETWEEN MUCHO MACHO MAN AND WILL TAKE CHARGE SET

The Big ’Cap high weight at 124 pounds, Mucho Macho Man, a 6-year-old Florida-bred horse by Macho Uno, enters America’s longest continually run hundred grander on a roll, having won his last three starts in-a-row, and, with a proven affinity for Santa

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03/05/2014

Plesa Hoping to be ‘Lucky’ in $250,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap

Palace Malice was 12th in the Derby before going on to win the Belmont Stakes (G1) and Jim Dandy (G2), capping his season by running sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) in November. Runner-up in the Florida Derby (G1) and Preakness (G1), Itsmyluckyd

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03/05/2014

Gulfstream Park News & Notes - Wed 3/5

Trainer Jose Garoffalo has enlisted the services of Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez for the 3-year-old son of Grade 1-winning sprinter D’wildcat, who is coming off back-to-back graded stakes victories. “I’m very happy with that. I like him,” Ga

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03/03/2014

MUCHO MACHO MAN’S FINAL WORK BEFORE BIG ‘CAP QUOTES

“I was looking for quiet confidence with him today, where he’s really settled. Just like this, where he’s quiet and happy, he knows he’s doing really well. “He’s changed quite a bit from the time he was a three-year-old. He’s matured a lot,

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03/02/2014

SANTA YSABEL STAKES QUOTES

“I love riding in this stuff; I come from back east. It’s the tracks that are drying out that no one really likes but these wet/fast tracks, they’re great to ride on.” TRAINER QUOTES BOB BAFFERT, AWESOME BABY, WINNER: “She’s been working reall

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03/02/2014

Gotham (G3) Quotes

Jose Ortiz, winning jockey aboard Samraat (No. 1A): "He has a lot of heart, he's a nice horse. We had a good trip, broke from the eight post. As soon as we got to the first turn I was third behind the two leaders, and that's where I wanted to be. He respo

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03/02/2014

Zito ‘Spot’ On in Saturday’s $200,000 Swale Stakes

Privately purchased from owner/breeder Curtis Green following a fifth-place finish in the Hutcheson Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream on Feb. 1, Spot lagged well off an solid early pace before launching a sweeping move on the turn into the homestretch and drawing

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03/02/2014

$200,000 Swale (G2) Quotes

“I expected improvement. He hadn’t run in a while. We got him, and we started to like him. Sometimes they go to a new place and things change. I got goose bumps. “I said, ‘Havana will keep the field down, let do it.’ That’s what I did. I figur

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