Flat Awesome Jenny entered at a higher level than originally intended

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Even after earning a career-best Beyer Speed Figure in her first start off the Kelly Breen claim, Flat Awesome Jenny was intended for a class drop.

“I entered her back for $25,000,” said Breen, who had claimed Flat Awesome Jenny for $35,000. “But the race didn’t go, so we ended up here.”

“Here” is the only allowance Thursday at Gulfstream Park, a $51,000 first-level race at six furlongs. It’s the ninth of 10 races on a card that starts at 1 p.m. Eastern and is part of a Rainbow 6 sequence (races 5-10) projected to have a pool guarantee of $1.25 million, assuming a solo winner did not empty the jackpot during Monday action.

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“She’s got an issue or two, like almost all of them do,” said Breen. “It’s just as well. Hopefully the race sets up as well for her as it did last time,” when she got an 80 Beyer in winning a Jan. 20 starter allowance. “It seems like there’s enough speed in there, so hopefully she’ll give us the same kind of effort.”

Breen’s go-to rider Paco Lopez will be back aboard Flat Awesome Jenny when a field of eight fillies and mares goes 6 1/2 furlongs. Coincidentally, both she and the other likely favorite R Prerogative (post 5, Emisael Jaramillo) bring the same 4-for-12 career record to this.

Breen, based primarily at the Palm Meadows training center during the winter months, returned to Florida on Monday from New York, where he has a smaller string of runners at Belmont Park. He has been trying to decide on a next start for his latest stable star As Seen On Tv, who was nipped in a photo by Chance It in his last race, the Jan. 4 Mucho Macho Man at Gulfstream.

“He’s going to breeze Thursday or Friday at Palm Meadows and we’ll probably decide then,” he said, adding he is torn between the Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream or a pair of March 7 races, the Gotham at Aqueduct and the Tampa Bay Derby.

◗ A trio of six-furlong stakes on Saturday are the highlights of the coming weekend at Gulfstream. They are the Grade 3, $100,000 Hutcheson for 3-year-olds; the Grade 3, $100,000 Gulfstream Park Sprint for older horses; and the $75,000 Any Limit for 3-year-old fillies.

A huge card is on tap for the following Saturday, Feb. 29, with nine graded stakes led by the Fountain of Youth.