If at first you don’t succeed ... That will be the motto for five of the eight 3-year-olds entered in Saturday’s $200,000 Swale at Gulfstream Park, including Kentucky Derby hopeful Daredevil, who’ll try for the second time to launch his 2015 campaign in the Grade 2 fixture postponed a week ago due to heavy rains.
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Trainer Chad Brown will run two horses apiece in back-to-back Grade 3 turf stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, starting with Consumer Credit and Mrs McDougal in the $200,000 Florida Oaks.
Ocean Knight and Carpe Diem both will carry the Stonestreet Stables silks when starting alongside each other in posts 2 and 3, respectively, among a field of eight 3-year-olds in the 35th running of the Grade 2, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby.
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The Tampa Bay Derby is certainly the best betting race of the stakes for 3-year-olds. Carpe Diem is going to be favored off his excellent 2-year-old season, with a 91 in the Breeders’ Futurity and 93 when second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Love the bloodlines, but the horse has not been out in four months and his Juvenile is not as good as it looks.
The projected different pace scenario is why I like Chitu in Saturday’s San Carlos Stakes at Santa Anita.
The deck has been reshuffled from last week, albeit with one key card missing. Dubai Sky now is skipping the Palm Beach Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park in favor of the March 21 Spiral Stakes on the Turfway Park synthetic.
Ocean Knight is by two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, who is clearly injecting some stamina into his offspring.
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