HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Laura Cazares laid out two plans for jockey Miguel Vasquez before he mounted defending champion Yes I Am Free in Saturday’s $100,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint. The first was to get the lead and keep the lead, which is a pretty good plan if both horse and rider can carry out those instructions. And sure enough, they did exactly that. Yes I Am Free quickly sprinted clear of his four rivals in the five-furlong Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint, rated kindly on the lead, then had enough left to fend off 7-5 favorite Carotari to register a half-length victory in the Grade 3 race. Shekky Shebaz came from last to finish third, another three-parts of a length farther back. Belgrano, impressive winner of the Janus Stakes in his previous start, got caught in some traffic down the backstretch, fanned wide off the turn and finished a disappointing fourth with the pace-pressing County Final bringing up the rear of a field which scratched down from 10 entrants to just five starters the morning of the race. :: Get ready for Gulfstream Park racing with DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports.  Yes I Am Free had given Cazares the first and only previous stakes win of her training career when drawing away to a 3 1/4-length victory in the 2022 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint. Yes I Am Free, a son of Uncaptured owned by Golden Kernel Racing Stable, completed the distance over a firm course in 55.71 seconds and paid $8.60 for his 11th victory in 25 career starts. Eight of those wins were over the Gulfstream Park turf course. “It feels amazing winning this race for a second straight year because nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I’d never won a graded stakes or any stakes before. This guy has done a lot for me and for all of us,” Cazares said, nodding toward the owners. “This is their first horse. All the horses do a lot for all of us, but this guy has done the most (for me) so far.” One Identity, claimed for $35,000 here last summer, became a stakes winner for the first time when rallying from just off the pace to a half-length decision over Charlie T in the $100,000 Ladies Turf Sprint. Mamba Wamba, the tepid 2-1 choice, rallied belatedly from last to finish third in a field that lost the likely heavy favorite when Miss J McKay was scratched by trainer Christophe Clement earlier in the day. One Identity, who tried the turf for the first time in her previous start when finishing third under allowance conditions here on January 18, rallied along the rail under Paco Lopez to post her sixth win in 11 starts. She completed five furlongs in 55.92 and paid $8.20. One Identity is trained by Rohan Crichton for Lawson Racing Stables. “Paco sat and got a good trip. He decided to go inside,” Crichton said. “He gave up the garden spot outside, but the rail opened up and she got through.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.