D'Amato preparing Probably Dreaming for Southwest

Probably Dreaming, a two-time stakes winner as a juvenile, has departed trainer Gary Capuano’s barn following a private sale earlier this month. He is now based at Oaklawn Park with trainer Phil D’Amato, who is pointing him to the Grade 3 Southwest for his 3-year-old debut on Jan. 31.

“We're going to duck him,” Capuano said of his new rival.

Sold by Paul L. Fowler Jr., Probably Dreaming is now owned by Agave Racing and Evan Trommer. As of Jan. 22, the colt had not made a published workout at his new home base, but D’Amato confirmed the Southwest as his goal on Friday.

Undefeated in his first three starts at Delaware Park, including two $100,000 stakes, Probably Dreaming went on to finish his juvenile season with runner-up finishes in the $150,000 Nashua at Aqueduct and $100,000 Heft at Laurel.

Capuano has not been shy about privately selling several runners from an outstanding 2025 crop of juveniles. It might not mean direct success for the trainer, but these transactions have spread word of his abilities as a horseman well beyond the Mid-Atlantic.

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“We don't have a problem moving them,” Capuano said. “We got a bunch more babies coming again this year. They call and try to buy them and we just try to negotiate a price and what have you, see if we can agree on something. Sometimes the owners want to part with them, sometimes they don't, but it just depends on whether it makes sense or not.”

Dreaming of Alys, another Agave/Trommer purchase with Medallion Racing, won her debut for Capuano in June before departing for D’Amato’s barn on the West Coast. In September, she won the $100,000 Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf.

If Probably Dreaming ends up making his 3-year-old debut in the Southwest, it would be an early step on the road to the Kentucky Derby. The $1 million Southwest awards points toward the Derby on a 20-10-6-4-2 basis.

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