Tampa Bay: Prado visits to ride War Order
OLDSMAR, Fla. – Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado is winless with 18 mounts at the Gulfstream Park meet but will look to score with his first mount of the Tampa Bay Downs meet on Wednesday.
Prado will ride War Order, a War Front colt owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Thani and trained by Graham Motion, in the eighth race, a $23,000 maiden special weight race going one mile and 40 yards. The race drew a field of nine 3-year-olds, and War Order is the 2-1 morning-line favorite.
War Order has made all four of his starts on turf, finishing third and second at Saratoga in his first two starts before finishing off the board in his next two. He’s been training steadily at Palm Meadows for his 2016 debut and will have Prado aboard for the first time.
War Order was a $200,000 purchase as a yearling at Keeneland in September 2014. He scored a 79 Beyer Speed Figure in his most recent start, a fifth-place finish at Gulfstream Park in December, a mark that easily leads Wednesday’s field.
In the sixth race Wednesday, A Little Attitude should be favored in a $35,000 starter allowance for 3-year-old fillies covering six furlongs on the main track. A Little Attitude, a daughter of Summer Bird trained by Randy Klopp, was the runner-up in the Sandpiper Stakes here in December before fading to eighth in the Gasparilla Stakes last month.