Little Daddy back quickly for Noe

The $90,000 Kenny Noe Jr. Stakes did not have sufficient entries to fill on Saturday but was carried over and will be run Sunday with a field of seven older horses set to go six furlongs on the main track. Owner-trainer Carlo Vaccarezza helped make the race by supplementing Little Daddy.

Little Daddy is coming off the best effort of his career, crushing a solid field of allowance horses last week at Gulfstream Park West.

“Ten days between races is not the greatest, but he came out of his last start phenomenal,” said Vaccarezza. “The last quarter of a mile, the horse was just galloping – he eased up big time. So, actually, it was an easy race for him.”

Vaccarezza said his main goal for Little Daddy is the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector at Gulfstream on Dec. 27.

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“I’d have had to run him once before the Mr. Prospector anyway, so this gives me 6 1/2 weeks just in case he regresses a bit off his last start,” said Vaccarezza.

The remainder of the field for the Kenny Noe is Speechify, Risk Factor, Grande Shores, Singanothersong, City of Weston, and Close It Out.

Class relief for ‘Margo’

Maker likely will send out the favorite in Saturday’s main event at Gulfstream Park West, a $37,000 optional-claiming race for 2-year-old fillies on turf, with Magnificent Margo making her local debut. Magnificent Margo returns to allowance company after finishing off the board in turf stakes at Saratoga and Keeneland in her last two starts.

“I still think she can be a stakes horse, and this is obviously an easier spot than her last two races,” said Maker. “The key for her will be the pace because she looks like a horse who wants to settle and make one run.”Magnificent Margo may face her toughest test from a pair of main-track maiden winners, Odachi and Devine Aida, both of whom will try turf and two turns for the first time Saturday.