Baccarat Fashion a good bet to win second straight race

Baccarat Fashion figures to be a short price to win her second straight race at Gulfstream Park on Thursday. After all, she overcame early trouble when she won a first-level allowance race with a $25,000 claiming option for trainer Michael Maker on July 30, and she is coming back at the same level and distance with Hector Berrios retaining the mount.

The six-furlong dash for fillies and mares goes as race 8 on a nine-race card that begins at noon Eastern.

Baccarat Fashion will make her fourth start for Maker, who claimed her for $62,500 on behalf of Hooties Racing LLC on Feb. 26. The 5-year-old daughter of Old Fashioned did not fire in her first start for new connections, finishing ninth in a second-level allowance race with a $62,500 claiming option on April 12.

Maker gave her a little break, and the time off did her well as she rallied to finish third at the same level as her win on July 30.

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Baccarat Fashion should be full of confidence following her 2 1/4-length defeat of Over Gators, and the shape of the race will work for her. She finished with conviction to win her latest and there should be an honest and contested pace to set her up.

She will break from post 5.

The Robert Smith-trained Over Gators looked like she might be home and cooled out when she opened a clear lead in the stretch, but could not hold off Baccarat Fashion, who won going away.

A 4-year-old daughter of Overdriven, Over Gators has started seven times with a win and two runner-up finishes in her last three starts at Gulfstream. In all three races she held the lead at the first two calls.

She will need to be on her toes to get the jump on Cory Gal, who has excellent speed and will use it breaking from the rail. Over Gators breaks from the outside post in the eight-horse field with Miguel Vasquez riding.

Cory Gal was the even-money favorite in the July 30 race, but was taken out of her game when she broke last.

After being claimed by trainer Gustavo Delgado for $16,000 on Feb. 23 she reeled off three victories in a row. Her final win in the streak came in a first-level allowance race on May 3. She went into her last race off a fourth-place finish in a second-level allowance race with a $62,500 claiming option on June 26.

This will be her first start for trainer Robert Dibona, who haltered her for $25,000 on behalf Drawing Away Stable. Over the past five years Dibona has a solid 19 percent strike rate and $1.42 ROI with claimed horses running back the first time.

Samy Camacho rides.

My Sarasota Star also has speed.

In her latest start for trainer David Braddy she chased a fast pace in her fourth-place finish in the $60,000 Ana T Stakes on July 25. In her previous race she led from start to finish in a $30,000 conditioned claimer on June 21. She was ridden by Edgard Zayas in both six-furlong races. She drew post 6 with Zayas retaining the mount.