Brown import looks for first U.S. win in Gulfstream allowance

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Friday’s main event at Gulfstream Park brings together a very competitive field of older filly and mare turf specialists to go one mile on the grass under second-level allowance conditions.

Stone Tornado, Group 3-placed in Italy but winless in four starts since coming to the United States and joining trainer Chad Brown’s barn last spring, may be the tepid choice. She makes her local debut under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. She’s been a beaten favorite in all four of her previous starts in this country.

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Sister Hanan returns locally for the first time since rallying from well back to finish third in the Grade 3 Honey Fox here last February. She has run just once in the interim, winning an entry-level allowance race over the Churchill Downs turf course on May 24.

A lack of any real pace in the field may provide an advantage for Golden Curl, who could prove the controlling speed under jockey Julien Leparoux. Golden Curl returns to the turf for the first time since also capturing a first-level allowance event at Churchill Downs three months earlier.