HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Sitting in his office at the Palm Meadows training center earlier this week, trainer Graham Motion was reading the chart of last November’s Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Stakes at Del Mar in which his horse, Test Score, finished second. “Raced three deep in midpack early, bumped with inner rival at the three-eighths pole, bumped again at the five-sixteenths pole, remained three wide in the stretch, moved in, then back out,” Motion recited. “He had a terrible trip, he was really unlucky,” Motion added. “God, I had forgotten how bad it was and he just got beat a neck.” Saturday, at Gulfstream Park, Test Score returns to the races in the $165,000 Kitten’s Joy Stakes, where any semblance of a clean trip should put him right there in the 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 3-year-olds. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day. The TAA has proven to be quite the productive race. Chasing Liberty, who won the TAA, came back last weekend to win the Texas Turf Mile at Sam Houston. Scipio, fourth in the TAA, won a maiden race Dec. 28 at Santa Anita after running second in the Cecil B. DeMille at Del Mar. Mi Bago (fifth in the TAA) has come back to win two stakes and is back in this spot. Aristas (eighth), Smash It (ninth), and Kale’s Angel (11th) have all come out of the TAA to win stakes. Test Score, a son of Lookin At Lucky, has only run one bad race from four starts and that was a fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 With Anticipation. Since then, he came back to win a maiden at Keeneland and then his narrow defeat in the TAA. “I didn’t understand the With Anticipation, he was very difficult, probably too much, too soon for him because his race at Keenland was very good and his race at Del Mar was very good and he was unlucky,” said Motion, who comes into Saturday 0 for 23 at Gulfstream. Tyler Gaffalione rides Test Score from post 6. Mark Casse sends out the trio of Mi Bago, Coco Cool, and Walking in Memphis in the Kitten’s Joy. Mi Bago, a son of Vekoma who has the outside post in this eight-horse field, has already won the Pulpit and Dania Beach, the latter going a mile and 70 yards on the Tapeta, at this meet. The 1 1/16-mile distance will be the farthest he’s run. “I don’t know if he has distance limitations or not,” Casse said. “He drew kind of a tough post.” Walking in Memphis was a first-out, front-end winner of a Dec. 21 maiden race here. “He has to prove he’s at this level,” Casse said. Coco Cool won his maiden in his second start at Woodbine. He shipped to California for the TAA and didn’t draw into the race then couldn’t drawn into a turf allowance at Churchill. Ultimately, he won a first-level allowance on the Tapeta at Turfway. He is 2 for 2 with blinkers. “First time out he was gawking around in the stretch,” Casse said. “That horse has some talent.” Tiz Dashing, trained by Barclay Tagg, was beaten a head in the Awad Stakes on Oct. 19 at Aqueduct. Enterdadragon, Charlie’s to Blame, and Maui Strong complete the field. Sweetest Chant Casse will go with just one, Vixen, in the $165,000 Sweetest Chant for 3-year-old fillies going 1 1/16 miles on turf. Eight were entered in the Sweetest Chant, but both Fede and Origami were expected to scratch. Fede ran in an allowance on Thursday, while Origami is going to point to a turf allowance next week. Vixen, a second-out winner on turf at Ellis Park in August, was beaten a neck by the Casse-trained And One More Time in the Grade 1 Natalma a Woodbine in September. Vixen is coming out of a sixth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf where she broke from post 13. “She was coming from the 13-hole, which is never a good thing, especially in California with a short run to the first turn,” Casse said. “She had a bit of a troubled trip. She would have run better if she wasn’t so wide.” Correto, seventh in the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf, finished fifth in the Ginger Brew here Jan. 4. Motion said he is hoping for a more patient trip Saturday. Irad Ortiz Jr. rides, replacing Jorge Ruiz. “I wasn’t planning on running in this race but when it came up such a small field I kind of thought we had to take a shot,” Motion said. Sail Theseven Seas, a last-out maiden winner at Laurel in October; La Gioconda, third in a synthetic allowance last out; Ramsey Pond, second in an allowance here Jan. 10; and Fixin to Bee, sixth in the Ginger Brew; complete the field. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.