NEW YORK – There are nine graded stakes races on Saturday, and every one of them is at Gulfstream Park. The main event there is the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth, with the Davona Dale and the Mac Diarmida stakes, which are also Grade 2 races and worth $200,000 each, being the most highly ranked supporting features. Fountain of Youth Stakes It is entirely possible Hidden Scroll is a monster. His winning debut on the Pegasus World Cup undercard – a 14-length romp good for a stellar 104 Beyer Figure, all under a pull at the end – was sensational. But that performance occurred in the slop going a one-turn mile, and on Saturday Hidden Scroll goes two turns on a fast track against more seasoned opponents, many of them stakes winners or stakes placed. Would I fall off my chair if Hidden Scroll romped again in this entirely different spot? Absolutely not. But in a betting sense, it goes against my grain championing a horse like this, especially when he’s the favorite. There are also significant questions concerning other high-profile Fountain of Youth entrants. Vekoma showed a lot of potential winning both of his starts last year, including the Nashua. But the fields he beat were of questionable quality, and he will be going two turns for the first time off a near four-month layoff. And Signalman also had good form last year, hitting the board in the Breeders’ Futurity and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile before winning the Kentucky Jockey Club. But I have doubts about how good those races really were, particularly the latter. Code of Honor was a sharp disappointment losing at odds on in the Mucho Macho Man in his 3-year-old debut. He did win his debut at Saratoga (while riding the crest of an inside speed bias) and was second in the Champagne after a terrible start. However, the form of the Champagne has not aged all that well, and it’s fair to question whether Code of Honor (despite his pedigree) is a real two-turn horse. And Global Campaign won his first two career starts earlier in this Gulfstream meet when heavily favored both times, but the 77 Beyer he received winning his route debut most recently was profoundly underwhelming. I’m siding with Bourbon War, even if he also has some issues to address. I didn’t like that he was dismissed at 17-1 in his debut last fall at Aqueduct, yet he still scored decisively. I wasn’t thrilled with Bourbon War’s fourth in the Remsen, though that was a day when it was hard to take anything at face value considering there was a track bias in play, and race times were hard to trust. And I didn’t care for the fact that the horse Bourbon War beat in his third and most recent start came back to flop as the favorite in the slowly run Southwest Stakes, although that certainly was not Bourbon War’s fault. However, I do like the fact that Bourbon War sports a recent win at the distance over the track. I also like the fact that he owns a closing style in a race loaded with early speed. And I like that he figures to be a very square price. :: DERBY WATCH: Top 20 Kentucky Derby contenders with comments from Jay Privman and Mike Watchmaker Mac Diarmida Stakes Channel Maker, a Grade 1 stakes winner three starts ago and who takes a big class drop out of the Pegasus World Cup Turf, is clearly the best horse here. But after drawing the outside post in this three-turn event he also seems locked into a wide trip. So, I’m going with Hunter O’Riley. Hunter O’Riley finished fourth in the W. L. McKnight Stakes in his recent return from a nine-month absence after a tougher journey than perfect-trip winner Zulu Alpha, who is also in this race. But Hunter O’Riley should only benefit from that outing and has back races at Saratoga in 2017 that are good enough to win this. Honey Fox Stakes Precieuse, a Group 1 stakes winner earlier in her career and narrowly beaten by the underrated Grade 1 stakes winner Uni in her only U.S. start last summer, is much the one to beat in her first start since. But Valedictorian, who is in career form, can take her. I liked Valedictorian two starts back in the Marshua’s River as the projected controlling speed but she wasn’t sent, and wound up third. She was sent to the front last time in the Suwannee River and proceeded to upset, and she can control on the front end this time, too.