Full Swing bred to be a good one

Full Swing, a daughter of Coolmore’s freshman stallion Verrazano, will debut at a mile on turf Sunday at Gulfstream Park. The maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies goes as the seventh race and Edgard Zayas has the mount from post 2.

Full Swing shares some ties with Verrazano, a multiple Grade 1 winner of $1.8 million whose biggest victories came in the Wood Memorial and Haskell. Verrazano was co-owned by Michael Tabor – who races Full Swing – and was trained in North America by Todd Pletcher – who conditions Full Swing.

Full Swing is out of the mare Excited, who won the Grade 3 Virginia Oaks in 2011 for Tabor and Pletcher. The race was one of two turf route stakes she captured, the other being the $50,000 Hilltop at Pimlico. Excited has produced a stakes winner in Thrilled, who in 2015 won her career debut at 1 1/16 miles on turf at Saratoga. Thrilled’s biggest win came in the $200,000 Plum Pretty, a dirt route at Sunland Park. She raced for Tabor and was trained by Pletcher.

Full Swing is part of a full field of 10 horses on Sunday. Others set to start include Hot Fudge Honey, who will start as a top choice off a runner-up finish against $50,000 maiden-claiming sprinters July 19 at Gulfstream. The Beyer Speed Figure of 59 that Hot Fudge Honey earned is the best number in the field Sunday. The race also drew a pair of first-time starters by The Factor, Sweet Blossom and Uncommon Factor.

Verrazano’s current top runner is Myhotrodlincoln, according to the Coolmore website. Myhotrodlincoln has run second in both of his starts, including the Kentucky Juvenile Stakes at Churchill Downs. The horse was freshened after that race by trainer Todd Fincher.