For Blonde Bomber, time to show her stuff

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Stanley Gold is the first to admit Blonde Bomber has been a disappointment in her first two starts of the year.

Blonde Bomber, who ran a respectable third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies last November, finished fourth in the Silverbulletday Stakes at Fair Grounds and fifth in the Suncoast Stakes at Tampa to begin her 3-year-old campaign.

Gold will give Blonde Bomber one more chance to show she belongs in a race like the Kentucky Oaks this spring when she runs in Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks at Gulfstream Park.

“I can’t make excuses for her,” Gold said Monday at his Gulfstream Park barn. “Maybe she’s not what she was or what I’m hoping she is – maybe she is – that’s what we’ll find out. She trained good, went in [59.78 seconds]. Everything’s been good since she came back, so we’ll take another shot.”

In the Gulfstream Oaks, Blonde Bomber will be returning to the track over which she won a maiden race and the Our Dear Peggy Stakes here last September.

“She’s coming back good for this race,” Gold said. “We’ll see. She’s back home.”

Edgard Zayas will ride Blonde Bomber in the Gulfstream Oaks.

Entries for the Gulfstream Oaks will be taken on Wednesday. Expected to enter are Cache, Daisy, Eight Thirty One, Heavenhasmynikki, Princess Warrior, Tell Your Mama, and Take Charge Paula.