Gulfststream: Revolutionary scheduled to return Saturday

Revolutionary, who has not started since finishing fifth in the Belmont Stakes, will make his 2014 debut here at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.

Trainer Todd Pletcher said he will enter Revolutionary in an allowance race that was written back after failing to fill for Friday. It the race doesn’t go again, he will enter the multiple graded stakes winner in the Grade 3 Hal’s Hope.

Revolutionary won the Grade 3 Withers at Aqueduct and the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds to earn a spot in the 2013 Kentucky Derby. He rallied from far back to finish third, 2 1/4 lengths behind Orb, in the Derby.

“We stopped on him after the Belmont and decided to give him some time off and commit to running him as a 4-year-old,” Pletcher said. “Like a lot of horses who run in the Triple Crown races, he lost a bit of weight and seemed like a horse who physically would get better as a 4-year-old. I’d just like to get a race into him Saturday and set him up for the Donn.”

Pletcher said that the undefeated Zaikov, who also was nominated to the one-mile Hal’s Hope, would not run Saturday.

“He just needs a little more time, so we’ll point him for the Gulfstream Park Sprint on Feb. 8,” Pletcher said. “Now, I just have to figure out what to do with him and Catron to try to keep them from running against each other.”

Catron, like Zaikov, was an impressive allowance winner here last month and also is perfect after two career starts.