Grade 2 Winner Dynamic One Returns at Gulfstream Park

Repole Stable, Phipps Stable, and St. Elias Stable's Dynamic One  is scheduled to return from a long layoff in the Dec. 22 featured race 7 at Gulfstream Park, where the grade 2 stakes winner has been installed as the 6-5 morning-line favorite for the mile optional claiming allowance.

"We're looking forward to getting him back to the races," Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher. "Hopefully, this leads to bigger opportunities ahead."

Pletcher had nominated Dynamic One for the Dec.30 Harlan's Holiday Stakes (G3), a key 1 1/16-mile prep for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) Jan. 27 at Gulfstream, but opted to bring the 5-year-old son of Union Rags   back to the races around one turn in Friday's feature.

Dynamic One has been sidelined since finishing sixth in the 2022 Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes (G1). The Phipps homebred had run the best race of his career in his prior start, a victory in that year's Suburban Stakes (G2) at Belmont Park. The Pletcher trainee, runner-up in the 2021 Wood Memorial Stakes (G2), also won the 2021 Curlin Stakes at Saratoga Race Course and the 2022 Blame Stakes at Churchill Downs.

Defending Championship Meet titlist Irad Ortiz Jr., who was aboard Dynamic One in the Suburban, has the return mount Friday.

Defending two-time Championship Meet training titlist Saffie Joseph Jr. has entered two horses in Friday's feature, Picking Up Pennies  and Positive Review .