Noble Drama, Caribou Club Make Victorious Returns At Gulfstream Sponsored by:
Caribou Club came back from a one-year layoff to win the Sunny Isles
Harold Queen s Noble Drama made a triumphant return from a four-month layoff, closing from last to eke out a victory in Saturday s $60,000 The Name s Jimmy Handicap at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
Out of a half-sister to 2010 Eclipse Award-winning sprinter Big Drama and full sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Sheer Drama, Noble Drama showed his class while rallying off a pedestrian early pace to prevail by a nose over Glory of Florida in the mile overnight handicap for 3-year-olds and up.
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Edwin Gonzalez Bags Five Winners Thursday At Gulfstream Park Sponsored by:
Edwin Gonzalez rode five winners on Thursday s Gulfstream Park program
Edwin Gonzalez continued to make his presence felt in the South Florida jockey colony, riding the winners of five races Thursday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.
The native of Puerto Rico, who won at a better-than-30-percent clip the previous two years at Penn National, has ridden 33 winners at the Spring/Summer Meet since moving his tack to South Florida.
Gonzalez won aboard Laurel Canyon in Thursday s second race, K s Running Free in the third, Karen s Cove in the fourth, Vow Me Now in the fifth and Panarea in the eighth and final race on the program.
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Collaborate Back To One Turn After Ambitious Try In Florida Derby Sponsored by:
Into Mischief colt Collaborate won a maiden race by 12 1/2 lengths for Saffie Joseph Jr.
Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. knew he was taking a big gamble when he entered lightly raced Collaborate in the Florida Derby (G1) off an impressive maiden win. And the result, a fifth-place finish, validated his initial concern that perhaps it was too much too soon.
“We were trying to get a little adventurous,” Joseph acknowledged of the one-shot, all-or-nothing attempt to reach the Kentucky Derby (G1). “Maybe it was a little quick off a maiden win. But I still believe in him. I haven t lost faith in him.”