Got Stormy, Uni entered against males in Fourstardave

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – What seemed unlikely on Monday turned probable on Wednesday. It won’t be until race day whether we know definitively if Got Stormy will run in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Fourstardave Handicap at Saratoga.

Got Stormy, just one week after she won the $100,000 De La Rose Stakes here by four lengths, was supplemented to the Fourstardave on Sunday – the day weights came out – and became one of 10 entered in the one-mile race on Wednesday. Got Stormy and the mare Uni were entered against eight males, including Raging Bull, Hembree, and March to the Arch.

“We’re entered. We’re going to see how the next couple of days go,” Mark Casse, who trains Got Stormy for owner Gary Barber, said Wednesday morning.

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Not only did Got Stormy win the De La Rose, her final time of 1:33.15 was just 0.02 off the course record, set two days earlier by Macagone.

“I was amazed how easy she won, but my concerns are she had been off a while and as easy as she won it was hot that day and she was just 0.02 off the course record,” Casse said.

Tyler Gaffalione rode Got Stormy to victory in the De La Rose, but for weeks has been committed to ride March to the Arch, also trained by Casse, in the Fourstardave. Casse tabbed Ricardo Santana Jr. to ride Got Stormy, who gets in the Fourstardave as the 114-pound low weight.

Uni, a 5-year-old daughter of More Than Ready, has won five consecutive races – all at one mile – including the Grade 1 Matriarch at Del Mar last December. She won last year’s De La Rose over this course and, in her only start this year, the Perfect Sting at Belmont on June 29.

Raging Bull, who last summer won the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Stakes and the Grade 3 Saranac here, is the 122-pound highweight in the Fourstardave. Others entered include Ostilio (120), March to the Arch (119), Krampus (118), Dr. Edgar (118), Hembree (117), Gidu (116), and Made You Look (116).