Create Again looks tough in straight claiming race

Create Again will be a single on many tickets in the Rainbow 6 on Thursday at Gulfstream Park. The jackpot wager begins on the third race with a carryover of $207,348. Create Again looks solid in a $25,000 conditioned claimer that will serve as the feature on the eight-race card, which begins at 12:50 p.m. Eastern. The one-mile race for 3-year-olds up drew six horses and goes as the seventh race.

Trained by Victor Barboza Jr., Create Again will appreciate the easier company following a fifth-place finish in a $30,000 starter race on April 3. With Edgard Zayas riding, the 6-year-old gelding by Creative Cause dueled with Well Defined for six furlongs before coming up empty late. Well Defined, a Grade 3 winner, kept running but could not hold off Tune In, who came from a stalking position to win the one-mile race by a neck. Tune In received a 90 Beyer Speed Figure for his third-straight victory, all for trainer Diane Morici.

Create Again went into the race off a third in a Feb. 28 starter handicap for horses who had started for $30,000 or less, and a second in a $12,000 starter race with a $20,000 claiming option on Dec. 30.

The last time he ran in a straight claiming race, Create Again won an $18,000 claimer at Gulfstream Park West by 17 3/4 lengths on Oct. 20.

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Create Again held the lead at the first call in all six of his wins. Breaking from post 2, he will likely be in the mix early with Zayas retaining the mount.

Crea’s Bklyn Law will not mind the added yardage after finishing third going seven furlongs in a first-level allowance race with a $16,000 claiming option for trainer Peter Walder on March 27 at Tampa Bay Downs. A 6-year-old gelding by Sky Mesa, Crea’s Bklyn Law was last early and finished with conviction but never threatened winner Jeopary James and runner-up Pudding. Pudding was 4-5 when he won a $20,000 claimer last Saturday at Tampa Bay.

Crea’s Bklyn Law will be looking for his first victory since he won a first-level allowance race with a $25,000 claiming option on July 11 at Gulfstream. He could pick up the pieces if Examiner and Create Again get into an all-out duel.

Paco Lopez rides Crea’s Bklyn Law, who will break from post 5.

The Morici-trained Examiner does not always show it, but he does have decent speed. In his latest start, which came in a $16,000 conditioned claimer on March 12 at Gulfstream, he had the lead at the quarter-mile call, dropped back to third turning for home, and gamely held on to finish second in the six-furlong dash. One of his three wins came going a mile in a $16,000 claimer for nonwinners of three, so he is capable of carrying his speed a middle distance.

It is uncertain how well Examiner will handle having Create Again breathing on him right from the start, though.