Jess You and I is 8 this season, six long years removed from his first major stakes win in the Grade 1 Golden State Million Futurity at Los Alamitos in 2006.
Jess You and I has won seven Grade 1 races in his career, the most recent of which was the Los Alamitos Championship in October. It would be no surprise if he scores an eighth in the Los Alamitos Winter Championship on Feb. 19.
“He’s still pretty capable for his age,” trainer Paul Jones said Thursday.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Caracortado, the winner of the Grade 3 Daytona Stakes on Jan. 8, was expected to be scratched from Saturday’s $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes at Santa Anita because of a minor foot problem, trainer Mike Machowsky said on Friday.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Hansen has kept a pretty low profile throughout his brief but successful racing career, doing the majority of his training in the relative anonymity of the Trackside Training Center in Kentucky prior to his victory in the Breeders’ Cup and under the cloak of darkness since arriving in south Florida last month.
ARCADIA, Calif. – For the past two seasons, Unzip Me ruled the West Coast female turf sprint division like none other – winning eight stakes in California and one in Canada.
To win a turf sprint in California, particularly at Santa Anita, Unzip Me always was the horse to beat. At one point she won five straight down the hill, and appeared to regain top form in October with a sharp stakes victory over statebred fillies and mares.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Doug O’Neill will send out Thirtyfirststreet in Saturday’s $100,000 Crystal Water Stakes for older California-breds over 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita.
Thirtyfirststreet won the Lone Star Derby on turf in Texas last May. He lost his next five starts before winning an optional claimer over 1 1/16 miles against open company on the main track here on Jan. 12.
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Sacristy, who began 2012 with a nice off-the-pace win in the Grade 3 Old Hat, will seek to end the month of January with a another stakes victory when she heads a field of seven entered for Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Forward Gal at seven furlongs.
Sacristy will face three of the same horses she beat in the Old Hat, including runner-up Say a Novena and fourth-place finisher Quick Flip.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Ever So Lucky, who ran two bang-up races in a span of 15 days last November at Churchill Downs, arrived at Gulfstream shortly after 6 a.m. Friday following a 12-hour van ride from Camden, S.C. After getting a little rest, Ever So Lucky went to the track for a mile gallop.
Trainer Jonathan Sheppard was scheduled to arrive in south Florida in time for training Saturday morning. He said Ever So Lucky could work Sunday or Monday. Sheppard is targeting the Grade 2 Hutcheson Stakes, a seven-furlong race Feb. 11, for Ever So Lucky’s 3-year-old debut.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – While the Holy Bull will be the focus of Sunday’s card, an allowance for 3-year-olds held about 90 minutes earlier will garner a lot of attention as well.
Nine 3-year-olds were entered in the first-level allowance race at 1 1/16 miles, including Casual Trick, runner-up in the Gulfstream Park Derby; El Padrino, third as the favorite in the Grade 2 Remsen; and Take Charge Indy, fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. The race is carded as the seventh.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The south Florida road to the Kentucky Derby will kick off in earnest Sunday when six aspiring Derby prospects, including recently crowned juvenile champion Hansen, square off at a mile in the $400,000 Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park.
The Grade 3 Holy Bull is the first of three major preps on the Derby trail at Gulfstream, along with the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth on Feb. 26 and Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 31.
