HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - While Dynamite Miss has been quite impressive in her last two starts, trainer Frank Alexander knew she would have been overmatched against Gold Mover and Harmony Lodge in Sunday's Hurricane Bertie Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Alexander may have found an easier spot for Dynamite Miss in Wednesday's $40,000 third-level allowance race at Gulfstream, but his filly stands to be tested nonetheless against returning stakes winners French Satin and Sixtyone Margaux.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Dynever, one of the most talked about 3-year-old maiden winners in the country this winter, will waste little time getting tested for class when he makes his next start in the $250,000 Aventura Stakes at Gulfstream Park on April 5.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Hombre Rapido has turned in two spectacular efforts this winter, and his trainer, John Sadler, believes the lightly raced 6-year-old gelding can continue to bang out big races as long as they are well spaced, and at six furlongs or less.
Sadler will put that theory to the test Wednesday, when Hombre Rapido goes for his third straight victory in Santa Anita's featured seventh race, a $65,000 classified allowance race at six furlongs. It will be his first start since he led from start to finish in a third-level allowance race on Jan. 12.
ARCADIA, Calif. - For the past several months, Gary Stevens was working alongside producer Frank Marshall and director Gary Ross on the movie "Seabiscuit." Stevens has gone back to his day job, riding horses, and on Sunday found himself in the position of spoiling the Hollywood ending for Marshall and Ross in the San Felipe Stakes.
ARCADIA, Calif. - The remarkable Santa Anita meeting of trainer Jeff Mullins hit its highest point on Sunday when his Buddy Gil upset such highly regarded Kentucky Derby prospects as Atswhatimtalknbout, Domestic Dispute, and Man Among Men in the $250,000 .
Buddy Gil, sent off at 9-1, bulled his way between horses in the final furlong and just did outlast the fast-finishing Atswhatimtalknbout to win by a nose under jockey Gary Stevens. Brancusi, a 48-1 shot who was coming off a victory against maidens, was third, another three-quarters of a length behind.
NEW ORLEANS - Beau's Town's connections hope their horse can become more than a regional sprint star this year, which is good, because Beau's Town is running out of competition in this part of the country.
Beau's Town easily won his seasonal debut Feb. 1 at Oaklawn Park, and Sunday he torched the best sprinters at Fair Grounds, winning the $150,000 by two-and-three-quarters lengths over Mountain General. Bonapaw was another length and three-quarters back in third, followed by Dr. Mike and Dash for Daylight. Beau's Town time of 1:08.83 for six furlongs set a stakes record.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Colorful Tour picked up his fifth straight win Sunday and became the leading local hope for the Grade 2, $500,000 Oaklawn Handicap on April 5 when he held off favorite Crafty Shaw by a neck in the Grade 3, $100,000 at Oaklawn Park.
It was another head back in third to Windward Passage, who withstood a jockey's objection for stretch interference from fifth-place finisher Gold Tango.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Gold Mover avenged an earlier loss at this meet to Harmony Lodge and defended her title in the Sunday with a convincing 3 1-2-length victory in the $100,000 ungraded race at Gulfstream Park.
Harmony Lodge, who defeated Gold Mover in the Shirley Jones Handicap and had also won the First Lady Handicap at this meet, settled for second, 4 1-2 lengths ahead of Belterra. Preferred Option and Silk Concorde completed the order of finish.
Gold Mover, under Edgar Prado, covered the 6 1-2 furlongs 1:15.83, just .83 seconds off the track record.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - It was a weekend to remember at Aqueduct for trainer Pat Reynolds and jockey Richard Migliore.
As a team, Reynolds and Migliore won Saturday's Broadway Handicap with Shawklit Mint and did it again on Sunday with Alysweep, the 4 1/4-length winner of the $200,000 aboard Affirmed Success, who beat the Reynolds-trained Peeping Tom, the runner-up, by a length.
