“Not so much (concerned) with not a lot of other speed in the race. He looked like he was going to be the speed and he could sort of sprint out of there and make the lead going into the first turn. Even drawn out wide, it looked like it was manageable to
“I thought it was a quality effort. The time was good and I’m happy to see him win a big race on the dirt because he’s always trained well on it. “I think the immediate options are on Feb. 6, either the Donn or the Gulfstream Park Turf that he won last ye
"She's doing great," said Gyarmati. "She had some little hitches there this year in the spring and summer, but things are good now. We think she'll perform well. I'm not sure what the track will be like on Sunday with the warm weather and the rain, it'll
“We had a good morning,” he said. “It was perfect, really. He worked in company before his last race and took dirt, but he does everything right by himself. The track was great and we’re happy the way he did it, on his own, the right way.” The breeze was
Trained by Bob Baffert for Ahmed Zayat’s Zayat Stable, American Pharoah earned a 113 Speed and 126.5 Class Rating in winning the $5-million race on Oct. 31 at Keeneland Race Course, making his Classic victory the only performance to earn Speed and Class R
“[At the quarter pole] I was thinking, ‘Oh, no.’ The one [Union Grace] was starting to get up in there and I saw we were holding him at bay. Then you’re trying to survey the field and you see horses on the outside starting to come up and you start to doub
“He’ll stretch out to a mile and a sixteenth, but I don’t know if he’ll stretch out with good horses. We’ll see. I’ll be down there Monday and spend a week down there and I’ll talk to Jorge and we’ll lay out a plan for him. Before the race I was thinking
Mshawish is the defending champion in the Fort Lauderdale, sandwiched between victories in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1) and El Prado last winter. The 5-year-old son of Medaglia d’Oro was most recently fourth, beaten 1 ¼ lengths, in the Cigar Mil
“I’ve never been there. It’s a new place for me,” Velazquez said between races Friday at Gulfstream Park, where he capped the first month of the Championship Meet by winning the Sugar Swirl (G3) and W.L. McKnight (G3) on Dec. 26. “I’m looking forward to b
Brown, 37, had a banner year in New York, saddling 131 winners of $12,766,542, including Grade 1 victories in the Belmont Oaks with Lady Eli, the Manhattan with Slumber, the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic with Big Blue Kitten and the Flower Bowl with Stephanie's
