Got Stormy Works 'Super' for Powder Break Stakes
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Got Stormy and Tyler Gaffalione after winning the Matriarch Stakes at Del Mar
Gary Barber's Got Stormy is ready for her next start in the $75,000 Powder Break Stakes on May 16 at Gulfstream Park following a half-mile breeze in :47.35 May 10 at Palm Meadows Training Center.
The dual grade 1 winner worked on a firm Palm Meadows turf course for trainer and Hall of Fame electee Mark Casse. The 5-year-old Get Stormy mare will enter the one-mile Powder Break for fillies and mares on turf off a narrow runner-up effort in the March 7 Frank E. Kilroe Mile Stakes (G1T) at Santa Anita Park.
"She was just going easy," Casse said of Got Stormy's work. "She went super, so all systems are go."
Last year, Got Stormy defeated males in the Fourstardave Handicap (G1T) and closed the season winning the Matriach Stakes (G1T). She was fourth in her Feb. 8 season debut, the Lambholm South Endeavour Stakes (G3T).
"We gave her a little break. She's ready again," Casse said. "Now we're ready to get her started for the rest of the year."
Casse also sent out Barber's Preakness Stakes (G1) winner War of Will on Sunday at Palm Meadows. The 4-year-old War Front colt breezed five furlongs in 1:00 4/5 on a fast dirt course. He was scratched from the May 9 Sunshine Forever Stakes at Gulfstream in favor of the May 25 Shoemaker Mile Stakes (G1T) at Santa Anita. The Southern California racetrack is still waiting for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to allow the resumption of racing without spectators amid the COVID-19 pandemic.