Razorback Lady trying to pick up where she left off

In their heyday together in the mid-2000s, Patrick Biancone won quite a few major stakes for Martin Schwartz, including Grade 1 races with such standout fillies as Angara, Gorella, and Asi Siempre.

No one is saying Razorback Lady will follow in similar footsteps for the trainer-owner team, although Biancone calls her “a good filly” who got off to a good beginning to her career with a win and two seconds from three starts.

Saturday, Razorback Lady will return from a layoff of more than seven months as a prime contender in the nominal feature at Gulfstream Park in South Florida.

Razorback Lady, with apprentice Romero Ramsey riding from post 5, figures to vie for favoritism with Awesome Mass (post 3, Jeffrey Sanchez) in the only allowance of a 12-race program otherwise filled with maiden or claiming events. The $47,000 first-level race at six furlongs goes as the 11th on a card that starts at 12:45 p.m. Eastern.

Bred in Arkansas, Razorback Lady is one of several horses Biancone has for Schwartz at the Palm Meadows training center north of Gulfstream. Biancone said her modest pedigree is secondary to her potential.

“It’s not where they came from, it’s what they can do,” he said.

He added that the Overdriven filly has recovered from an unspecified injury and he is optimistic she will run well in her first appearance since a runner-up finish in the Dec. 9 House Party at Gulfstream.

“She’s impressed us,” said Biancone.

Awesome Mass, trained by Stanley Gold for owner-breeder Arindel, has the benefit of a recent comeback, having captured a June 16 allowance versus Florida-breds. Prior to that five-length triumph, the Brethren filly had not raced in more than eight months.

Five other fillies and mares are also were entered in the Saturday feature, which is governed partly by a $16,000 claiming option: Miss Helen, Three Socks One, Enigmatica, Estilo Feminino, and First Distinction.

The feature is part of the 20-cent Rainbow 6, which spans races 7-12. The carryover jackpot on Thursday stood at nearly $320,000.

◗ The next six-figure stakes at the 56-day summer meet at Gulfstream will be run Aug. 4, when the Florida Sire Stakes series begins with a pair of $100,000 sprints for 2-year-olds.