Noel’s Weekend Winners: Choice for Two Wide Open Races at Gulfstream Park

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Gulfstream Park hosts one of the biggest days of the season this Saturday, with the Grade 2 Coolmore Fountain of Youth Stakes starring in a 14-race program with a total of nine stakes. For this weekend’s winners, let’s take a look at the Fountain of Youth and one of the best betting races on the undercard, the Mac Diarmida Stakes presented by FanDuel TV. If we can finish strong in the last two races on the schedule, we should cap off a very good Saturday at the South Florida track. Good luck and enjoy the races.

Saturday February 28

Gulfstream Park, Race 13, $200,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes Presented by FanDuel TV, post time 5:36 PM ET

There will be plenty of heavy favorites on display during Saturday’s betting program at Gulfstream Park before heading into the final two races of the day, which look like wide-open races with several contenders. The Grade 2 Mac Diarmida Stakes has produced a good field of 10 grass horses willing to race 1 3/8 miles on the grass and you can make a legitimate case for several horses in the field to win. The horse to beat will be that #6 Flooded with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. raises the mountain for trainer Mike Maker. Anegada comes in with wins in three of his last four races, including a win in the $200,000 John B. Connelly Turf Cup Stakes in his four-year-old debut. Notably, the Connelly was Anegada’s first foray into a distance race over 1 1/8 miles and he showed a new dimension when he passed the test with a career Beyer Speed ​​Figure. Ortiz will let Anegada get off the pace and he will be in a better hitting position to make his late run than the deeper closers and will get the first and best run on the leaders down the stretch. Speaking of those leaders, the most dangerous frontrunner in the race will be #3 Layabouta horse who is in the best form of his career with two consecutive wins, increasing his record on the Gulfstream turf track to four wins and a second in five races to date. Layabout also passed the long-distance test in his last race when he went wire-to-wire to win the Grade 3 William L. McKnight Stakes presented by Woodford Reserve Bourbon, and he is a threat to take the lead again in this spot and go all out. The horse might chase Layabout closest #2 Withoutwho last time finished second in his American debut for trainer Graham Motion after a ten-month layoff. Motion is currently enjoying a strong 26% meet at Gulfstream this season. He needed that last race, but all systems will be ‘go’ here in the second start after the layoff.

The play: Bet #6 Flooded (9-2) to win and play him in exacta and trifecta boxes #2 Without (5-2)And #3 Layabout (8-1).

Gulfstream Park, Race 14, $425,000 Coolmore Fountain of Youth Stakes, post time 6:11 PM ET

The Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes has drawn a good field of 3-year-olds looking to cover 1 1/16 miles en route to the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve. The race offers a cash prize of $425,000, in addition to many Derby qualifying points for the top finishers. #6 Chief Wallabee will have a big test in this race and we will learn a lot about his abilities on Saturday. All signs point in the right direction so far for the Bill Mott trainee who took his maiden win in his first career outing last time by going seven furlongs over a field that included runner-up The Puma, who was 9 ¼ lengths ahead of the third-place horse and has since come back to finish third in the Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. The sky seems to be the limit for Chief Wallabee, let’s see if he’s up to the task. One horse we know is up to the task in this area is a Grade 1 winner #7 Napoleon Solo who won the Champagne Stakes last fall by going a mile at Aqueduct, but has not been seen since. The only question for him is whether or not he will be ready for his first two-turn assignment in his first race back after a nearly five-month layoff. It wouldn’t be a surprise if he was ready to roll, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if he needed a race either. One of the top contenders in this race that has he has a preliminary race under his belt #5 Bravaro for Gulfstream’s leading trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. (who also trains the fast sprinter #10 Loneliness dude). Solitude Dude may not win, but it could certainly hurt the chances of a potential frontrunner like Napoleon Solo. Bravaro, meanwhile, is a New York-bred stakes winner who was second to Nearly in the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes last time out when making his three-year-old debut and could potentially take another good step forward on Saturday.

The play: Bet #6 Upper Wallabee (9-2) to win and play him in exacta and trifecta boxes #5 Bravaro (8-1) And #7 Napoleon Solo (7-2). You can also play late daily doubles by combining your picks from races 13 and 14.