Hangover Saturday Back on Turf in Our Dear Peggy

The $1.4 million Florida Sire Stakes Series at Gulfstream Park offers lucrative opportunities that are difficult for the connections of a talented 2-year-old to pass up.

 

So, after Hangover Saturday debuted with a 4 3/4-length victory on turf on Aug. 8, her owners and trainer decided to try the daughter of Pomeroy on dirt in the $250,000 Susan’s Girl on Sept. 6. She bobbled at the start and showed little on the dirt that day, so she wasn’t entered to run in Saturday’s $350,000 My Dear Girl, the Sire Stakes finale for fillies.

 

Hangover Saturday, though, will be running in a stakes on Saturday’s program, returning to the turf for the one-mile $75,000 Our Dear Peggy Stakes on the Sire Stakes undercard.

“We tried. We wanted to try her on dirt, because you just never know. She obviously doesn’t like it,” trainer David Fawkes said. “We’re pretty excited about having the chance to run her back on turf in a spot like this.”

Hangover Saturday, who is scheduled to be ridden by Jose Valdivia Jr., is rated fourth at 8-1 in the morning line for the 13-filly event behind 3-1 favorite Ekati’s Phaeton, Navajo Kitten and Red Sashay.

“Everybody pretty much looks like the same kind of horse. A lot of them broke their maidens the first time out. A lot of them broke their maidens sprinting,” Falkes said.

Hangover Saturday is owned and bred by John Eaton and Steve Layman, who also campaign the Fawkes-trained Daring Kathy. The multiple graded stakes-placed 3-year-old filly won back-to-back stakes at Gulfstream during the Summer Meet before finishing third in both the Lake George (G2) at Saratoga and the Ontario Colleen (G3) at Woodbine. Daring Kathy is scheduled to race next in the $75,000 Cellars Shiraz at Gulfstream Park West on Oct. 18.

 

Source: Gulfstream Park Communications