Flowmotion runs well fresh, comes out of productive race

A couple of first-level allowance races share the spotlight at Gulfstream Park West on Saturday. Both offer a $25,000 claiming option.

Both races are part of the Rainbow 6, which will be paid out on Saturday. The track estimates the Rainbow 6 pool at more than $500,000 if it is not hit on Friday.

The first of the two races is for 3-year-olds and up going 7 1/2 furlongs on turf. It goes as race 7 and barring scratches will start with nine horses. Front Loaded, Semper Fi, and Town Classic are entered as main-track only.

The Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Town Classic figures to be a short price if he gets to go in a race that will be shortened to seven furlongs. The 7-year-old son of Speightstown is coming off a neck loss going a mile at the same level while running over the Gulfstream Park West main track for the first time. A four-time sprint winner, he should be fine with the cutback in distance with Emisael Jaramillo retaining the mount.

On turf it looks like a battle between Flowmotion and American Phenom.

Flowmotion is coming off a couple of solid efforts on turf at Monmouth Park for trainer Jane Cibelli. In his latest start on Aug. 9, he finished third going a mile and a sixteenth in a first-level allowance race. The winner, Reconvene, came back to finish third in the $150,000 James W. Murphy at Pimlico. Belgrano, who finished a head behind Flowmotion, won his next start and was recently victorious in the $73,000 Virgil “Buddy” Raines at Monmouth.

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Flowmotion can fire fresh, and adding to his appeal are the strong stats Cibelli has with horses coming back between 61 and 180 days: 22 percent winners with a $2.30 ROI the past five years.

He will break from post 2 with Angel Arroyo riding.

American Phenom is coming off an impressive Sept. 7 maiden win going a mile and a sixteenth on turf rated good at Gulfstream Park in his third start. The son of American Pharoah is the first foal out of the Grade 2 turf winner Schiaparelli, so his future could be very bright.

He will break from post 4 with Jaramillo named to ride.

Hallawallah will be tough to beat in her first start for trainer Juan Avila if she shows up with her best stuff in the eighth race, a seven-furlong dash on the main track for fillies and mares. She finished eighth for trainer Steve Asmussen in a super key first-level allowance race that produced five next-out winners at Churchill Downs on May 24.

She is the only horse in the field with a Beyer Speed Figure above 80, and the daughter of Candy Ride can fire fresh as evidenced by her sharp win in her debut at Churchill Downs where she received an 82 Beyer.

Hallawallah’s bullet half-mile work out of the gate on Oct. 7 suggests she could be ready to fire a big shot coming off the bench with Samy Camacho riding. She will break from post 2 in the eight-horse field.

Chez Paree, a romping winner of a $25,000 claiming race going seven furlongs at Gulfstream on Sept. 27, looks like the main threat.

The 3-year-old daughter of Sky Kingdom makes her initial start for trainer Paul Kopaj, who the past five years has a 22 percent strike rate and $1.88 ROI with claimed horses running back the first time.