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Magic Attitude heading toward the winner s circle after winning the Belmont Oaks Invitational under Javier Castellano
Early last year, Tampa Bay Downs trainer Arnaud Delacour received rave reviews about Magic Attitude, a regally-bred filly who at the time was preparing to make her first 3-year-old start in the Group 3 Prix Vanteaux at Longchamp in Paris.
The daughter of renowned sire Galileo, out of Group 1-winning Margot Did, did not disappoint, notching her first stakes score by 2 lengths. Soon after, owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson purchased Magic Attitude privately on Delacour s recommendation, with the intention of sending her to the conditioner s stable in the United States to compete under their Lael Stables banner.
Swiss Skydiver Breezes, Returns in Beholder or Azeri
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Vequist, with Joel Rosario aboard, winning the Juvenile Fillies
Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Swilcan Stable s Vequist, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2020, is set to launch her highly anticipated sophomore season against 11 rivals in Saturday s $200,000 Davona Dale (G2) at Gulfstream Park.
The 34th running of the one-mile Davona Dale is part of a blockbuster 14-race program featuring nine stakes, eight graded, worth $1.475 million in purses anchored by the $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth (G2) for 3-year-olds on the road to the $750,000 Curlin Florida Derby (G1) presented by Hill n Dale Farms at Xalapa March 27.
First race post time is 11:30 a.m.
Curlin s Catch wins Suncoast to join Kentucky Oaks trail
Curlin s Catch wins Suncoast to join Kentucky Oaks trail
Suncoast Stakes on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs.
Trained by Mark Casse with Antonio Gallardo in the irons, Curlin s Catch settled in fifth in the early going as Get Sneaky parlayed a sharp break to get the lead in a field that was reduced to seven 3-year-old fillies with scratches. the lead over the field of seven 3-year-old fillies through the early going.
Get Sneaky dueled for much of the race with Feeling Mischief and Il Malocchio, who was making her U.S. debut for trainer Kenny McPeek.
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Bill Mott-trained Nova Rags winning his debut at Belmont Park on Oct. 10
The winner of last year s $125,000 Gasparilla Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Tampa Bay Downs, trainer Mark Casse s Florida-bred Two Sixty, added to her laurels in July with a front-running victory in the Grade 3 Selene Stakes at Woodbine.
But it was fifth-place Gasparilla finisher Swiss Skydiver who just about set the horse racing world on fire last Jan. 18.
After missing the Tampa Bay Downs winner s circle in Oldsmar, Fla., by less than a length (her Equibase chart comment read, in part, “…was urged to challenge the winner four wide between foes leaving mid-stretch but was floated out by that foe late while losing her momentum and just missing for a share”), Swiss Skydiver put together a season that made her one of the most popular horses in training and the favorite for an Eclipse Awa
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