Sweetontheladies Making Good for Collazo
Trainer Henry Collazo ventured to the Ocala Breeders’ Sale for 2-year-olds in training last April on a soul-searching mission. While looking for juveniles to stock his stable at Gulfstream Park, the veteran South Florida horseman looked a lot deeper than the prospects’ obvious physical attributes.
“I’m big on looking at their eyes. Their eyes are the window to their souls. It’s the best way to see what’s inside them,” Collazo said. “He’s such a nice horse. Conformation, anyone can tell you about conformation. It’s reading the soul that matters.”
Sweetontheladies caught Collazo’s eye and has gone on to produce two eye-catching victories to launch his career, including a sharp front-running triumph in Friday’s featured second race, a $43,000 optional claiming allowance for 2-year-olds.
The son of Twirling Candy debuted with a dead-game victory while withstanding race-long pressure in a five-furlong maiden special weight race July 2.
“His first race actually was his last work,” said Collazo, who is enjoying a banner Summer Meet with seven winners from 17 starters.
The son of Twirling Candy was 100-percent fit and ready for his return to action Friday, breaking alertly from the gate to show the way along the backstretch, shaking off heavily favored Inkspired on the turn into the stretch and drawing off to a 3 ½-length score under Marco Meneses.
“I liked him ever since I saw him at OBS. I bought him privately. I thought he was worth at least twice what we paid for him,” said Collazo, who bought the Florida-bred colt for Four Horsemen Racing Stable and Lady Lindsay Racing Stables for $25,000 after the April 2-year-olds-in-training sale. “He’s very well bred with a good mare on the bottom. I think the future is real bright for him.”
Sweetontheladies ($8.60) ran six furlongs in 1:10.42 after setting fractions of 22.77 seconds, 45.22 and 57.40. Chatiment finished second under Edgard Zayas, 2 ¾ lengths ahead of Inkspired and Tyler Gaffalione.
Saturday’s Rainbow 6 Carryover Jackpot Swells to $60,000
The Rainbow 6 went unsolved Friday, producing a $60,223.67 carryover jackpot for Saturday’s Gulfstream program.
Multiple tickets with six winners Friday were each worth $156.52.
The carryover jackpot is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
Saturday’s Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 6-12. There will also be a Super Hi 5 carryover of $1,256.84.
First-race post time is set for $12.35 p.m.
NOTES: Jockey Tyler Gaffalione had three wins Friday. Gaffalione won the fourth with Lottery Ticket ($3.60), the sixth with Israel's Dream ($2.60) and the seventh with D' chief Source ($14.80)...Stakes winner Aire Bueno, trained by Charles Simon and ridden by Matthew Rispoli, drew away down the stretch to win Friday's ninth race, an optional claimer at 7 1/2 furlongs. Air Bueno, who has now won four of his last five races, covered a firm course in 1:27.54.
Source: Gulfstream Park