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Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes, 1 1/16 miles, Gulfstream Park, March 2, 2019

 (50 Derby qualifying points for a win, 20 for second, 10 for third, 5 for fourth)

 Winner: Code of Honor, by Noble Mission

 Trainer: Shug McGaughey

 Jockey: John Velazquez

 Owner: W. S. Farish

 Beyer Speed Figure: 95

Ten new names are in the lineup for Pool 3 of the 2019 Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which opens Friday at noon Eastern for the customary three-day run.

Pool 3 coincides with the only futures pool toward the 2019 Kentucky Oaks, with an Oaks-Derby double future wager being offered for the second year.

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Global Campaign had a big excuse for his fifth-place finish under Luis Saez in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth last Saturday at Gulfstream Park, one that will put an end to his Kentucky Derby dreams.

Hidden Scroll remains on the Kentucky Derby trail, Mucho is off it, and Country House will make his next start in the Louisiana Derby, trainer Bill Mott said Monday as he evaluated a weekend where two of those horses ran and one worked.

Hidden Scroll, the beaten favorite after setting a wicked pace in the Fountain of Youth on Saturday at Gulfstream Park, will be considered for the Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby on March 30 or races the following week, including the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and Grade 2, $1 million Blue Grass at Keeneland.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Easy Shot’s status for the 2019 Triple Crown scene will be determined in a top-class running of the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday.

The $500,000 San Felipe at 1 1/16 miles is expected to be led by Game Winner, the champion 2-year-old male of 2018, and Improbable, who won the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity in December in his last start.

Monday, Game Winner worked five furlongs in 1:00.60, while Improbable went the same distance in 59.60 seconds.

The San Felipe will be by far the toughest race of Easy Shot’s career.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Some people might have been troubled by Signalman’s seventh-place finish in Saturday’s Grade 2 Fountain of Youth, but his trainer Ken McPeek wasn’t one of them.

McPeek couldn’t have been more upbeat or confident in his Grade 2-winning Kentucky Derby hopeful when looking back on the effort the following day.

If ever a race lent credence to the old sports saying credited to coach Lou Holtz that, “You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose,” it was Saturday’s Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Code of Honor, the winner of the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park, came out of the race well and will make his next start in either the Grade 1, $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream on March 30 or the Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct one week later, trainer Shug McGaughey said Sunday morning at Gulfstream.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – With just 63 days until the Kentucky Derby, those in the Fountain of Youth Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park knew what was at stake as race time neared.

“Acid test time,” Mark Hennig, the trainer of Bourbon War, said as he walked toward the paddock.

A few minutes earlier, asked how he was doing, Garrett O’Rourke, the general manager of Juddmonte Farms, whose Hidden Scroll would go off the favorite, replied, “Ask me in an hour.”