Prevalence recovered from illness and looking for a spot
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Prevalence, the Godolphin homebred who was withheld from a race last week at Gulfstream, could make his second career start in the coming days following a quick recovery from a minor illness. Prevalence breezed a half-mile in 48.40 seconds Saturday at the Palm Meadows training center.
Trainer Brendan Walsh said before leaving Tuesday for California, where on Saturday he will run Maxfield in the Santa Anita Handicap, that he hopes to run Prevalence in a first-level allowance in time to make a Kentucky Derby points qualifier.
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“If everything goes right, we’d still have time,” said Walsh. “It’d be tight, but yes, it’s possible.”
Gulfstream has a one-turn-mile allowance for 3-year-olds in the condition book for March 11. The final Derby points qualifiers are April 10.
Prevalence, by Medaglia d’Oro, earned an 89 Beyer in winning his lone start by 8 1/2 lengths, a Jan. 23 maiden race going seven furlongs at Gulfstream. Walsh had intended to run the colt in either an allowance won Friday by Known Agenda or in the Fountain of Youth won by Greatest Honour.
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Meanwhile, Walsh said one of the major filly-mare turf races in Kentucky is the likely next spot for Zofelle, whose late rally fell just a nose shy of nailing Got Stormy in the Grade 3 Honey Fox on Saturday at Gulfstream. Zofelle, a 5-year-old Irish-bred mare, earned a career-high 95 Beyer.
“She ran a cracking good race,” said Walsh.