MIAMI – Trainer Ron Spatz said he really didn’t give it much thought that Saturday’s third race will be the final feature race ever run at the old Calder Race Course when he entered I Get It in the $46,000 allowance test, carded at 1 1/16 miles on the grass. He was just happy for the opportunity to start his promising 2-year-old filly one more time before heading into the Gulfstream Park championship meet this winter. But after being made aware of the situation, Spatz, who settled in permanently at Calder nearly 40 years earlier in 1982, said, “Now that I think of it, winning the last [feature] race over there would be kind of fun.” :: Want to get your Past Performances for free? Click to learn more. Spatz, like so many of his colleagues who called the place home since the track opened 50 years ago, has many fond memories of Calder, which ran nine months a year and formed the South Florida circuit with Hialeah and Gulfstream Park for much of those five decades. “I remember when I first got there thinking how great it would be to be able to stay until the end of my days,” Spatz recalled. “To stay there and train horses until I can’t do it anymore. It was a fun place for a trainer to stay all year round, to be able to settle and build a house and not have to worry about moving around again.” Spatz then recalled what Calder’s former racing secretary Bob Umphrey said back then: “We have a good thing going here. Let’s not mess it up. “And then Churchill Downs came along [and bought the track] and now here we are coming up to closing day,” Spatz said. Spatz said he remembered being shuffled around from barn to barn his first couple of years in town before finally settling in with another longtime Calder regular, David Braddy. “They moved me several times before putting me right back where I started, in the same stalls next to Braddy,” said Spatz. “And once I did get settled in there, it was great. The track was good and I wound up winning a lot of races, a lot of big races, over the years.” Among those races was a victory by his multiple stakes-winning turf specialist Carterista in the 1993 Lago Mar Handicap. “I believe that every win, from a trainer’s standpoint, is memorable,” said Spatz. “But that one was a little special because it was a rare occurrence when they wrote a race at seven furlongs on the turf back then at Calder. It was always seven and one-half. And then he absolutely got left in the gate. But he not only recovered to win, he wound up setting a track record that I think stands to this day.” Sure enough, Carterista’s final time of 1:22.36 is a course record that will last forever. Spatz stands a good chance of chalking up a victory with his final “Calder” starter as I Get It figures to go postward the favorite in the main event. The daughter of Get Stormy has improved with every start, winning her last two outings, including a conditioned allowance here by 3 3/4 lengths against males on Oct. 18. “I remember thinking winning that two-lifetime against the boys might have been a mistake because there wasn’t a race in the book she was eligible for until this one came along,” said Spatz. “I think’s she’s a pretty nice filly. She looks like she’s started to act like a real runner after she beat up on the boys the other day, and this will give me a barometer to see what she’s worth going into the winter meet.” I Get It will face a field that includes Mashugana, who returns to the grass for the first time since finishing third in the Sharp Susan Stakes on Aug. 29 at Gulfstream Park; the stakes-placed Happy Constitution making her turf debut; and Agog, coming off a third-place finish in the Indian Summer Stakes at Keeneland.