Front Loaded the hot horse in Friday allowance

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Live racing resumes Friday at Gulfstream with a nine-race program that includes a pair of allowance races and three 2-year-old maiden events, including the first two-turn turf race for juveniles this season. Post time for the first race is 2 p.m.

The highlight of the day is the eighth event, a six-furlong allowance with a $52,000 purse that attracted a field of nine led by Front Loaded, who exploded to a 7 3/4-length win in a $35,000 claiming dash here May 9. He received a career-best 89 Beyer Speed Figure. The outing was the first since the 7-year-old was claimed for $12,500 by trainer Georgina Baxter three months earlier.

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Front Loaded, who has proven he can win from on or off the lead, figures to get plenty of pace to run at with Kalu and Running for Riz breaking alongside one another down near the rail and Fundy’s Tide likely to force the issue from the outside. An honest pace also would enhance the chances of Silverly Enough, who missed by less than a length under similar conditions two starts back, and Septemberten, coming off a third-place finish versus similar four weeks earlier.

Statebred fillies and mares will vie for a $51,000 pot going one mile in the sixth event. Among the key contenders are last-out winner Pacific Princess; Jost Sayin, who finished second under the same conditions on April 22; and Raspberry Ballet.