HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – With bigger fish to fry down the road for Lennilu, including a potential trip to Ascot early this summer, trainer Patrick Biancone was anxious to clear the first hurdle on the comeback trail with his multiple stakes-winning 3-year-old in Sunday’s $125,000 Melody of Colors Stakes. The talented filly accomplished the mission in popular fashion with a workman-like, three-quarters-of-a-length victory over pacesetting Mystical Belle in the five-furlong turf fixture. Making her first start since finishing seventh against males in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint nearly five months earlier, Lennilu raced well placed behind Mystical Belle under jockey Luis Saez before tipping out and gradually wearing down the leader under confident handling through the final furlong. The win was the fifth in seven starts and fourth stakes victory for Lennilu, who also ran a solid third when competing at Ascot for the first time as a 2-year-old in the Group 2 Queen Mary. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  “It was good. She’s back,” Biancone enthused after the race. “It was a long layoff. We decided to give her plenty of time to grow up because she started early [in April of her 2-year-old season], and I think she’s a little better now than she was last year.” Biancone stated prior to the Melody of Colors that if all went well Lennilu would be pointed next to the 5 1/2-furlong Limestone on April 10 at Keeneland with a return trip to Ascot potentially in the cards a couple of months later. Joseph was winning everywhere on Saturday Mystical Belle fell just shy of adding another “W” to Saffie Joseph Jr.’s big weekend that began with a trio of important wins coming in rapid-fire succession at three different venues Saturday. Joseph’s day was topped by Skippylongstocking’s one-sided win in the Grade 3 Essex at Oaklawn Park and also featured a last-to-first victory by Bull by the Horns in the Rushaway Stakes at Turfway Park and Navajo Warrior’s 1 1/2-length decision over 1-5 favorite Gosger under allowance conditions at Gulfstream Park just a couple of minutes earlier. Navajo Warrior’s performance was particularly impressive as he readily ran down multiple Grade 1-placed Gosger in a career-best performance for which he earned a 99 Beyer Speed Figure going 1 1/16 miles over the main track. The win was the fourth in six tries for Navajo Warrior since joining Joseph’s stable last summer at Saratoga. “I’ve liked this horse since we got him,” Joseph said. “We shipped him around a lot, so I was anxious to keep him home and run him out of his own stall for a change. He’s always acted like he wants to be a graded stakes horse for sure. I wasn’t certain he could beat Gosger, but it wasn’t a total shock he did. Now we’ll give him a little break and bring him back in a graded stakes race.” Bull by the Horns lost contact with the rest of the field down the backstretch in the Rushaway before circling the leaders to register a half-length tally for his first stakes win. He bounced back from a dull effort when beaten nearly 20 lengths by Commandment in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth here just three weeks earlier. “He still hasn’t run fast enough to be in the upper echelon of the division but to win from that far back like he did shows he has the ability,” said Joseph, who added he has no next-race plans at the moment for Bull by the Horns. ◗ Javier Castellano was the riding star of the weekend, posting four victories Saturday before coming back with a double the following afternoon. The Hall of Fame jockey is putting the finishing touches on a terrific Championship meet during which he’s won 47 races and sits fourth in the standings behind perennial leader Irad Ortiz Jr. Castellano will be aboard Tampa Bay Derby winner The Puma in Saturday’s $1 million Florida Derby. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.