After the new Tapeta surface was installed at Gulfstream Park for the current meeting, the winner of the first race at each distance established a track record, however temporary. Ever since, the record at every distance has been lowered several times. In yesterday’s seventh race, Famous Gent became the latest to own …
After three previous riders were unable to find the right mojo for Foxy Austin’s first four races, Samy Camacho solved the riddle of the 3-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall at Tampa Bay Downs yesterday. Camacho broke Foxy Austin with the leaders, then maneuvered her back to a stalking position in third …
First Dude’s red-hot February push continued yesterday with convincing scores by What’s Up Dude at Turfway Park and Neigh Dude at Laurel, giving Dude 11 winners since Jan. 1, while the amazing Sunset Paula Jo extended her unbelievable streak in Puerto Rico to seven victories in a row and nine of her last …
Coming off a third-place finish in the Ruthless Stakes in her previous start, Lady Milagro was sent off as the 2-1 favorite yesterday in a $55,000 starter optional claimer at Aqueduct. Based on the way the 3-year-old First Dude filly handled the field, 1/2 would have been a more logical price. With Eric …
Gulfstream Park has many named important programs on its Championship Meet schedule – Florida Derby Day, Pegasus World Cup Day, Fountain of Youth Day, and several more. Yesterday could easily have been named Double Diamond Farm Stallions Day. On Gulfstream’s nine-race program, three races were won by runners by Double Diamond …
If Sunset Paula Jo had been competing in New York or California for the past year, and had recorded her current record, she would have her name listed high up on First Dude’s growing roster of runners who have earned $200,000 and up, probably around half a million dollars. But the …
Juan Arriagada, the owner and trainer of Valiant Virtue, has to be congratulated for the excellent job he did with the 5-year-old son of First Dude, who returned from a layoff of nearly 13 months to win the third race at Tampa Bay Downs yesterday in a virtual breeze. In his …
Although owners and trainers love to be blessed with a barnful of stakes and allowance runners, every so often a claimer comes along who endears itself to everybody in the barn in various ways, especially by making numerous visits to the winner’s circle and paying his or her own way. Ragatagtag, …
First Dude gained his second stakes-placed runner of 2022 when Lady Milagro finished third in the $100,000 Ruthless Stakes at Aqueduct yesterday. The 3-year-old filly owned and bred by Dianette Rivas and Amanda Laderer shot to the lead with Eric Cancel in the 7-furlong race and posted fractions of :22.72 and …
Very quietly, a 7-year-old mare by First Dude has been making headlines in Puerto Rico, winning her last five races in a row, and seven of her last eight. Sunset Paula Jo, bred by Maria Montez Haire, has been taken to new heights by jockey Edwin Castro, winning by a neck …