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Gulfstream Park hosts one in every of its greatest days of the season this Saturday with the Grade 2 Coolmore Fountain of Youth Stakes headlining a 14-race program with a complete of 9 stakes. For this weekend’s winners, let’s check out the featured Fountain of Youth in addition to the most effective betting races on the undercard, the Mac Diarmida Stakes Introduced by FanDuel TV. If we will end sturdy in these ultimate two races on the cardboard, we should always wrap up an excellent Saturday on the south Florida monitor. Better of luck and benefit from the races.
Saturday, Feb. 28
Gulfstream Park, Race 13, $200,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes Introduced by FanDuel TV, publish time 5:36 p.m. ET
A whole lot of heavy favorites might be showcased all through Saturday’s stakes program at Gulfstream Park earlier than we get to the ultimate two races of the day which look like wide-open races with a number of contenders. The Grade 2 Mac Diarmida Stakes has drawn subject of 10 turf horses ready to race 1 3/8 miles on the grass and you can also make a respectable case for numerous horses within the subject to win. The horse to beat might be #6 Anegada with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. choosing up the mount for coach Mike Maker. Anegada is available in with wins in three of his final 4 races together with a victory within the $200,000 John B. Connelly Turf Cup Stakes in his 4-year-old debut. The Connelly notably was Anegada’s first foray right into a distance turf race longer than 1 1/8 miles and he confirmed a brand new dimension when passing the take a look at with a profession excessive Beyer Velocity Determine. Ortiz may have Anegada coming from off the tempo and he’ll be in higher hanging place to make his late run than the deeper closers and can get the primary and greatest run on the leaders within the stretch. Talking of these leaders, probably the most harmful entrance runner within the race might be #3 Layabout, a horse that’s in career-best type with two straight wins to spice up his document on the Gulfstream turf course to 4 wins and a second in 5 races thus far. Layabout additionally handed the long-distance take a look at in his final race when he went wire-to-wire to win the Grade 3 William L. McKnight Stakes Introduced by Woodford Reserve Bourbon, and he’s a risk to get the lead once more on this spot and go all the best way. The horse maybe within the closest pursuit of Layabout could possibly be #2 With out, who completed second off a 10-month layoff in his U.S. debut final time for coach Graham Movement. Movement is at the moment having fun with a robust 26% meet at Gulfstream this season. He wanted that final race however all methods might be “go” right here within the second begin off the layoff.
The Play: Guess on #6 Anegada (9-2) to win and play him in exacta and trifecta packing containers together with #2 With out (5-2), and #3 Layabout (8-1).
Gulfstream Park, Race 14, $425,000 Coolmore Fountain of Youth Stakes, publish time 6:11 p.m. ET
The Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes has drawn subject of 3-year-olds set to go 1 1/16 miles on the street to the Kentucky Derby Introduced by Woodford Reserve. The race gives a handbag of $425,000 along with lots of Derby qualifying factors to the highest finishers. #6 Chief Wallabee will get an enormous take a look at on this race and we’ll be taught rather a lot about his capability on Saturday. All indicators level in the proper course to this point for the Invoice Mott trainee who gained his maiden in his first profession outing final time going seven furlongs over a subject that included runner-up The Puma, who was 9 ¼ lengths forward of the third-place horse and has since come again to run third within the Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. The sky seems to be the restrict for Chief Wallabee, let’s see if he’s as much as the duty. One horse we all know is as much as the duty on this subject is Grade 1 winner #7 Napoleon Solo who gained final fall’s Champagne Stakes going one mile at Aqueduct however has not been seen since. The one query for him is whether or not or not he’ll be prepared for his first two-turn task in his first race again from practically a five-month layoff. It could be no shock if he had been able to roll, nevertheless it additionally can be no shock if he wanted a race. One of many prime contenders on this race who has gotten a prep race underneath his belt is #5 Bravaro for Gulfstream’s main coach Saffie Joseph Jr. (who additionally trains the speedy stretching-out sprinter #10 Solitude Dude). Solitude Dude might not win however actually may damage the probabilities of a possible entrance runner like Napoleon Solo. Bravaro, in the meantime, is a New York-bred stakes winner that ran second to Practically within the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes final time when making his 3-year-old debut and probably may take one other good step ahead once more on Saturday.
The Play: Guess on #6 Chief Wallabee (9-2) to win and play him in exacta and trifecta packing containers together with #5 Bravaro (8-1) and #7 Napoleon Solo (7-2). You can too play late day by day doubles combining your picks from races 13 and 14.
