HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Commandment dominated Saturday’s $175,000 Mucho Macho Man Stakes and looked like he’s ready to go 1 1/4 miles the way he galloped out following his eye-catching, 6 3/4-length victory over Roger That Dana in the first major 3-year-old prep of the 2026 Gulfstream Park Championship meet. Commandment ran twice as a 2-year-old, finishing a late-running fourth going six furlongs in his debut, before stretching out to seven-eighths to win his maiden by 5 1/4 widening lengths at Churchill Downs on Nov. 1. Trainer Brad Cox continued the distance progression, stretching the son of Into Mischief out to a mile for his stakes debut in the Mucho Macho Man. With Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard, Commandment raced well placed while saving ground within easy striking distance of the leaders, closed on the turn, angled out three wide to challenge for command into the stretch before drawing off with complete authority through the final furlong. He then galloped out in brilliant fashion, another quarter-mile past the wire, finally pulling up on entering the backstretch a second time. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  Roger That Dana, on the early lead in both previous starts, was rated near the rear of the field during the opening half-mile before fanning five wide to join for command approaching the stretch. Ultimately proving no match for the winner but continuing on down the center of the course to easily be second-best, checking in 1 3/4 lengths before the tiring Thunder Chuck. Owned by Wathnan Racing, Commandant completed the distance over a fast track in 1:38.23 seconds and paid $3.00. “Big performance. I started him out at three-quarters and Irad thought he’d stretch out after a big gallop out in that race,” Cox said. “We brought him along step by step, I guess furlong by furlong, and he’s responded well.” Cox said he told Ortiz to just let Commandment break, find his stride and get in a comfortable rhythm and the race played out exactly to plan. “He was able to save ground, split horses and finish up well,” Cox added. “And he got a good education out of it, too. He’s one of the better 2-year-olds we have, he’s out of a Grade 1-winning mare and he listens to his rider, which is kind of an important thing to have when you’re trying to get these horses to stretch out.” *** The complexion of the $175,000 Ginger Brew changed dramatically at scratch time Saturday morning with the announcement that Spirit Doll, an impressive stakes winner in her previous start, was out of the race. That left Sister Troienne as a prohibitive favorite, an opportunity she took full advantage of when rallying to a relatively easy 1 3/4- length victory over the 23-1 Laigina and four other overmatched rivals in the turf fixture for newly turned 3-year-old fillies.  The Ginger Brew marked the second time in the last five weeks an eagerly anticipated matchup between Spirit Doll and Sister Troienne never came to pass. The pair had also been scheduled to meet in the Wait A While Stakes on Nov. 27 with trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. electing to scratch his filly after the race was switched from the turf to the synthetic Tapeta course due to rain. With her regular rider Mario Gutierrez aboard, Sister Troienne settled into a perfect striking position stalking the early pace of Laigina. Sister Troienne joined the leader midway on the second turn, stuck her head in front approaching the stretch, edged clear inside the furlong grounds, then maintained a safe advantage while under mild encouragement to the end. Laigina, coming off a maiden win when making her turf debut one month ago, held safe Storm’s Wake by three-parts of a length to finish second. Tideoftime, Bert’s Knoty Girl and R Slew of Cash rounded out the order of finish. The win was the fourth in a row for Sister Troienne, a homebred daughter of Munnings who is trained by Brian Lynch for Woodslane Racing LLS. She also captured the Wait a While in Spirit of Doll’s absence in similarly easy fashion in her 2-year-old finale. Sister Troienne completed the distance over a firm course in 1:33.42 seconds and paid $2.60. “There’s always anxious moments, but when everything kind of leveled off down the backside and she was in a good stalking position it gave me a little air of confidence she had dead aim on the winner,” Lynch said. “Mario has ridden her every start now and between the two of them, they have a level of confidence with each other and I think he rides her extremely well.” Lynch admitted his confidence level also went up a little at scratch time. “You hate to win off someone’s misfortune, but it certainly was a pleasant scratch for us,” Lynch said. “But in the end she ran it in 1:33 and change, which is a legit time, and she appeared to have done it comfortably. It would have been a good horse race either way.”       :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.