Mon, 03/10/2025 - 12:15

Trip to Dubai worth taking for Steal Sunshine

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Paco Lopez thought Steal Sunshine's runner-up finish in the Gulfstream Park Mile was his best effort yet.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – After finishing a troubled and very game second behind odds-on favorite Mindframe in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Mile, Steal Sunshine will accept an invitation to run in the $1 million Godolphin Mile on the Dubai World Cup undercard on April 5 at Meydan. He will be joined on the long journey from South Florida by Super Chow, recent winner of the Gulfstream Park Sprint, who will compete in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen.

Mon, 03/10/2025 - 11:59

Just F Y I in tough for return, meets Gun Song in stakes-worthy allowance

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After a winless campaign in 2024, Just F Y I returns in Thursday's sixth race at Gulfstream Park.

If Bill Mott was hoping for a soft landing spot to bring the 2023 champion juvenile filly Just F Y I back to the races following a winless 3-year-old season, he didn’t find it Thursday at Gulfstream Park.

Mon, 03/10/2025 - 10:54

Chrome Ghost to keep doing what he does best

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Dreaming of Kona is looking to break a 13-race losing streak.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Chrome Ghost has been tried on multiple surfaces and at multiple distances, but his favorite thing to do is sprint on dirt at Tampa Bay Downs.

On Wednesday, Chrome Ghost gets to do that for a third straight time against six rivals in a multi-conditioned allowance/optional $100,000 claiming race at seven furlongs. Chrome Ghost is one of five of the seven runners in this field entered for the high claiming tag.

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Fri, 03/07/2025 - 14:30

Top trio in Thursday feature should put on a good show

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Gun Song (right) came close to upsetting Thorpedo Anna in the Cotillion. She makes her 4-year-old debut on Thursday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The best race for older fillies and mares during the 2024-25 Championship meet wasn’t last month’s Grade 3 Royal Delta or Saturday’s Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie. That honor will go to a $98,000 allowance race that serves as the main event on Thursday’s card, which lured a six-horse field that includes Grade 1 winners Power Squeeze and Just F Y I, along with Gun Song, who came within a neck of defeating Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna in the Grade 1 Cotillion last September at Parx.

Fri, 03/07/2025 - 14:08

Settled in New York, Sacco tries Just Beat the Odds

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Trainer Gregg Sacco, who has won six races from 19 starters during Aqueduct’s winter meet, plans to stable in New York year-round.

Trainer Gregg Sacco has enjoyed a very solid winter at Aqueduct and hopes it’s just the start of a big year in New York for his stable.

Sacco, who has won six races from 19 starters during Aqueduct’s winter meet, plans to stable in New York year-round this year.

“We’re definitely staying,” Sacco said Friday while overseeing his string at Tampa Bay Downs. “Will’s done a great job. It’s year-round racing.”