Diamond Wow Set to Move Forward in Herecomesthebride

With a comeback race under her belt, Diamond 100 Racing Club, Amy Dunne, and trainer Patrick Biancone's stakes winner Diamond Wow  makes her return to the turf in an overflow field of 13 for the $125,000 Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park March 5.

Diamond Wow notched back-to-back wins to open her career at Gulfstream, graduating on debut in front-running fashion last August before coming from off the pace to become a popular winner of the off-the-turf Our Dear Peggy Stakes three weeks later. Biancone brought her to Kentucky, stretched her out, and put her back on turf for the 1 1/16-mile JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G2T), where she was beaten a head after a difficult trip.

A win would have earned Diamond Wow a paid berth to Del Mar for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T), but Biancone instead opted to give the chestnut daughter of  Lookin At Lucky   a break until her 3-year-old season.

"She's doing really good," he said. "Obviously we missed the Breeders' Cup because she was a bit tired at that point of the year, but we had a plan to prepare her for the spring, step by step, to have her ready for the big races in April and May."

Part of that plan was bringing Diamond Wow back in the Feb. 5 Forward Gal (G3) sprinting seven furlongs at Gulfstream, the same track and distance as the Our Dear Peggy. She chased eventual winner Girl With a Dream  for a half-mile before winding up fourth, less than a length behind stakes winner and fellow Herecomesthebride entrant Last Leaf .

"I wanted to run her short the first time because I know she'd be a bit too fresh, and she showed exactly that. But she ran a good race, a good prep race, and now she can go two turns with no problem," Biancone said. 

She adds blinkers Saturday.

Teneri Farm and J Stables' Opalina , similarly based in South Florida, also went to the Jessamine off a 12-length maiden win at Gulfstream but lost all chance following a troubled start yet rallied to make a late run and finish fifth, beaten 1 1/2 lengths. She came back to run third in the one-mile Ginger Brew Stakes Jan. 1 and broke through with a three-quarter-length triumph in the 1 1/16-mile Sweetest Chant Stakes (G3T) Feb. 5, both over her home track.

Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. won last year's Herecomesthebride with Con Lima , and they will team up again Saturday with Michael Tabor's homebred Beside Herself . The bay daughter of champion Uncle Mo   was third in a pair of maiden special weights last fall and winter before breaking through with a gate-to-wire 3 1/4-length victory going 1 1/16 miles on the Gulfstream turf Jan. 30.

Stakes winners Howdyoumakeurmoney , Last Leaf, Lemieux , Lia Marina,  and Mischievous Kiss  are also entered, along with last-out maiden winners Dia de Sol  and Spendarella . Rounding out the field are Bali Del Sol , Soul of an Angel , and Dolce Zel , the latter listed as the lone also eligible.

Multiple Stakes Winner Red Danger Tops Palm Beach Stakes

Silverton Hill's multiple stakes winner Red Danger  will take on eight rivals, including grade 3 winner Coinage  and Credibility , his grade 2-placed stablemate from the barn of Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse, in the $125,000 Palm Beach Stakes for 3-year-olds on turf.

Red Danger won the 6 1/2-furlong Global Tote Juvenile Sprint Stakes at Kentucky Downs last fall and the 7 1/2-furlong Pulpit Stakes Dec. 3 at Gulfstream as a 2-year-old for trainer Brian Lynch. The son of Orb  kicked off his sophomore campaign running fifth by 2 1/4 lengths in the 1 1/16-mile Kitten's Joy Stakes (G3T) Feb. 5 at Gulfstream.

St. Elias Stable and Repole Stable's Triple Crown-nominated Royal Spirit  ran second in the Kitten's Joy, taking a lead into the stretch before being beaten a neck by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher-trained stablemate Grand Sonata . 

Chester and Mary Broman and D. J. Stable's Coinage began his career on dirt against New York-breds but was successful moving to turf and trying open company in the With Anticipation Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course. He was beaten by Royal Spirit in two of his last three starts, the one-mile Nownownow Stakes last fall at Monmouth Park and the Kitten's Joy, running third each time.

D. J. Stable also bred Harry Rosenblum's Credibility.

Entries: Herecomesthebride S. (G3T)

Gulfstream Park, Saturday, March 05, 2022, Race 13

• Grade IIIT
• 1m
• Turf
• $125,000
• 3 yo Fillies
• 6:12 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Last Leaf (KY)	Miguel Angel Vasquez	120	Ronald B. Spatz	20/1
2	2Mischievous Kiss (KY)	Junior Alvarado	120	William I. Mott	6/1
3	3Diamond Wow (KY)	Romero Ramsay Maragh	120	Patrick L. Biancone	8/1
4	4Spendarella (NY)	Jose L. Ortiz	118	H. Graham Motion	6/1
5	5Beside Herself (KY)	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	118	Todd A. Pletcher	4/1
6	6Lemieux (FL)	Edwin Gonzalez	120	Mark E. Casse	15/1
7	7Dia de Sol (KY)	Javier Castellano	118	Gilberto Zerpa	30/1
8	8Opalina (FL)	Luis Saez	122	Roderick R. Rodriguez	7/2
9	9Howdyoumakeurmoney (NY)	Paco Lopez	120	Michael J. Trombetta	12/1
10	10Soul of an Angel (KY)	Chantal Sutherland	118	Gerald James	30/1
11	11Bali Del Sol (KY)	Corey J. Lanerie	118	George R. Arnold, II	20/1
12	12Lia Marina (KY)	Joel Rosario	120	Christophe Clement	9/2
13	13Dolce Zel (FR)	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	118	Chad C. Brown	5/1

Entries: Palm Beach S.

Gulfstream Park, Saturday, March 05, 2022, Race 7

• STK
• 1m
• Turf
• $125,000
• 3 yo
• 3:10 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Credibility (KY)	Edwin Gonzalez	120	Mark E. Casse	6/1
2	2Coinage (NY)	Luis Saez	123	Mark E. Casse	3/1
3	3C My Meister (FL)	Javier Castellano	118	Kelsey Danner	20/1
4	4Main Event (KY)	Jose L. Ortiz	118	George Weaver	5/1
5	5Sosua Summer (KY)	Miguel Angel Vasquez	118	Rafael Ramos	15/1
6	6Royal Spirit (KY)	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	118	Todd A. Pletcher	5/2
7	7Bueno Bueno (KY)	Paco Lopez	120	Jack Sisterson	15/1
8	8Moms Moon (KY)	Emisael Jaramillo	118	George R. Arnold, II	20/1
9	9Red Danger (KY)	Julien R. Leparoux	123	Brian A. Lynch	4/1