A pair of simulcast wagering options are on tap Saturday with the running of two graded-stakes races at Florida’s Gulfstream Park. First up is the $200,000 Grade II Forward Gal […]
A pair of simulcast wagering options are on tap Saturday with the running of two graded-stakes races at Florida’s Gulfstream Park. First up is the $200,000 Grade II Forward Gal Stakes for three-year-old fillies running seven furlongs on the dirt. The race has drawn a field of six, with the Todd Pletcher-trained Onlyforyou listed as the decisive 7-5 favorite in the morning line. After coming to the races late in her juvenile season, Onlyforyou broke her maiden first asking by more than two lengths at Aqueduct, then shipped to Gulfstream to win again by 3 1/2 at the allowance level.
Second ML choice at 3-1 is Aurelia’s Belle, a Kentucky-bred from Belmont Stakes and Eclipse award-winning Lemon Drop Kid. She also was a first-time-out winner on the all-weather track at Keeneland in October. After a break of almost three months, she came to Gulfstream in early January and finished well back in third, behind a winner that had been knocking on the door in two previous graded-stakes tries. She had been ridden by Julien Leparoux, who here moves over to Resistivity, the 4-1 third choice.
Of the others, My Dear Regina (8-1) showed good determination to overcome being steadied early and then make her way through the field to get the win by a head going one mile on the dirt at Churchill her last time out back in early November. She had finished second in her career bow, going four-wide to grab the place at 29-1. Of the two Florida-breds in the race, Flash Encounter (8-1) comes into this off an allowance win at Calder and is 2 for 4 lifetime, while Stately Defense (6-1) has failed to find the winner’s circle again in three tries since breaking her maiden, with a fourth place finish in the Filly Turf Stakes at Gulfstream.
Royal Ascot is one of the greatest race meets in the world, and there is no race as historic or exciting during the meet than the Gold Cup (G1)! First run in 1807, it is one of the premier races for stayers in the world. The two-and-a-half-mile turf race offers a rich £500,000 purse, and it drew ten of the world’s best long-distance horses.
The Prince of Wales’s Stakes is one of the most important races of the Royal Ascot meeting! With a £1 million purse, the race is one of the richest of the entire week, and it also offers its winner a guaranteed berth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf.
The 2022 Belmont Stakes, which will be run on Saturday, June 11, drew an exciting field of eight to compete for $1.5 million and a place in horse racing immortality. Several familiar New York horses will line up for the race, including Wood Memorial (G2) winner Mo Donegal and Peter Pan (G3) winner We the People.
The best horses in the older dirt male division line up for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup on Saturday, January 29 at Gulfstream Park! The race is at a mile and an eighth on the main track, an intermediate distance that draws both Classic runners and milers alike. Nine horses have passed the entry box, and are ready for a thrilling renewal of the winter’s biggest race!
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