Calder: Swear Me In will try to capitalize on inside post in Capano

The speedy Swear Me In can make good use of the rail in the $50,000 Capano Handicap at Calder on Saturday. The 1 1/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares is the eighth race on a card that also includes the $50,000 Bold World Handicap for fillies and mares going six furlongs.

The 3-year-old Swear Me In is a relatively new face in a race filled with familiar names on the south Florida circuit. She has won 3 of 7 career starts, with her best races coming when she is on the lead or close to it. From post 1, jockey Juan Delgado should be able to pop clear on Swear Me In, or closely track any opponent who outhustles them to the lead.

Swear Me In makes her first start for Colin Sherwood. The filly’s former trainer, Jane Cibelli, is serving a suspension for an incident in which a veterinarian administered an illegal substance to one of her horses on race day. Cibelli has denied instructing the vet to administer the substance.

Angelica Zapata is the likely favorite in the Capano, having won multiple stakes in Florida during her 8-for-23 career. Trained by Ronald Pellegrini, she comes off victories in the Nancy’s Glitter on the Calder main track in July and the Wasted Tears on the Gulfstream Park turf on Aug. 31.

Trainer Marty Wolfson has entered three in the Capano, with the late-running Ann of the Dance perhaps his best chance. Ann of the Dance finished second behind Angelica Zapata in the Wasted Tears in her last start.

Wolfson also sends three in the Bold World (race 7), topped by Heart Stealer, a former Dale Romans and Bob Baffert trainee who blasted optional claimers by 10 1/2 lengths at Gulfstream in her first start for Wolfson. Heart Stealer’s Beyer Speed Figure of 93 from that Oct. 6 race matches the 93 earned by stablemate Centrique for her 10-length optional-claiming win at Calder as the best last-race Beyers in the field.

Among the other contenders in the Bold World are Appealing Stella, who was second in the Musical Romance at Gulfstream last out, and R Free Roll, a speedball who returns to Florida off a second in the Charles Town Oaks.