Curlin's Approval will try to pull Rampart rebound

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Curlin’s Approval will look to rebound from a disappointing performance in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint when she stretches out to a mile for Saturday’s Grade 3 Rampart at Gulfstream.

A Grade 2 winner here earlier in the year, Curlin’s Approval will face six rivals, including the multiple Grade 2 winner Lewis Bay, who makes her first start since finishing second in the Grade 3 Comely at Aqueduct nearly 13 months earlier.

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The Rampart is one of five graded stakes on Saturday’s card and one of two for fillies and mares on the dirt, along with the Grade 3 Sugar Swirl at six furlongs. A field of seven will start in the Sugar Swirl, led by defending champion Dearest, who has been idle since finishing fourth behind Curlin’s Approval in the Grade 2 Princess Rooney on July 1.

The Grade 3 Harlan’s Holiday lost its two most prominent nominees, Gunnevera and Neolithic, but still lured a field of eight, led by Breeders’ Cup Marathon winner Destin, Page McKenney, Grade 2 turf winner Flatlined, and Mr. Jordan. Conquest Big E, Fear the Cowboy, Joshua’s Comprise, Richard the Great, and supplemental nominee Frammento also will start.