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At Gulfstream Park this Saturday, there are eight graded stakes in the race card. The $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes is the featured event with three-year-old thoroughbreds, along with the $200,000 Davona Dale Stakes for three-year-old fillies.
The Grade 2 Davona Dale Stakes covers one mile on dirt and 10 fillies are entered in the race. Leave No Trace is starting at No. 10 with a 6.42 rating in Horse Racing Nation. She is trained by Philip Serpe and ridden by jockey Tyler Gaffalione. Another contender is Lynx and she is trained by Carlos David. Leaving from the No. 7 gate, Edgard Zayas will be her jockey in the Davona Dale.
2023 Fountain of Youth Stakes Predictions
When: Saturday, March 4th 2023
Where: Gulfstream Park
Also, a Grade 2 stakes race, the Fountain of Youth is 1 1/16 miles on dirt. There are 10 horses entered in this event, including the favorite Forte with a 8.07 rating by HRN. Rocket Can should take second place and Blazing Sevens should capture third.
Win: Forte
Trained by Todd Pletcher, this Kentucky-bred colt raced at Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course in New York before making his way to Keeneland Race Track to win the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity on Oct. 10 and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 4 as a two-year old. Forte will be making his three-year-old debut at Gulfstream in this race.
Sired by Violence, he has ridden 1 1/16 miles on dirt in both these major graded events at Keeneland. Forte is the early favorite for the 2023 Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May having raced for Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable. Forte is starting at the No. 4 gate in the Fountain of Youth with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr.
Place: Rocket Can
Rocket Can won the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream on Feb. 4 as a three-year-old. He covered 1 1/16 miles on dirt in 1:44.97 over Shadow Dragon and West Coast Cowboy in second and third. Also bred in Kentucky, the colt placed in the money at Churchill Down his last two races as a juvenile.
As a son of Into Mischief, Rocket Can has his last three races covering 1 1//16 miles. He has the pedigree to make things interesting in the Fountain of Youth. Trained by William Mott, Rocket Can is posted at the No. 8 gate with Junior Alvarado as jockey.
Show: Blazing Sevens
This is another Kentucky-bred colt that is making his three-year-old debut in the Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream. Trained by Chad Brown and ridden by Joel Rosario out of the No. 6 gate, he raced for Rodeo Creek Racings, LLC. As a two-year-old, Blazing Sevens won the one mile Champagne Stakes at Aqueduct before finish fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland over 1 1/16 miles on dirt.
Blazing Sevens is a son of Good Magic and has been bred to compete in major graded events, such as the Fountain of Youth. He has raced on dirt since his victory at Saratoga in a six-furlong Maiden Special Weight race on July 24.
