Fashion Faux Pas Well-Heeled for Forward Gal

Denlea Park and Kent Spellman's Fashion Faux Pas has the right running style and Equibase Speed Figures to take the Feb. 2 Forward Gal Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park.

Not only does the Flatter filly sport the best last-out ESF, she has the highest in the nine-horse field, a 94 earned Dec. 15 at Tampa Bay Downs with a gate-to-wire score in the six-furlong Sandpiper Stakes in 1:11.65.

Trainer Arnaud Delacour picks up Javier Castellano for Fashion Faux Pas, who was bred by Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider out of the Arch mare Clash. Fashion Faux Pax was a $65,000 purchase by Gatewood Bell's Cromwell Bloodstock at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Monarch Stables' Bye Bye J, a chestnut Uncaptured  filly, also brings stakes credentials to the seven-furlong Forward Gal, having won the local six-furlong House Party Stakes Dec. 8. John Velazquez picks up the mount for trainer Ronald Spatz.

"She's training really super," Spatz reported to the Gulfstream media team. "Every work's been faster than I want it to be, but she's doing it on her own. She usually just sits back a little bit. You kind of have to get after her to motivate her, and then she digs in.

"She's a grinder, with a little speed. She'll be going up against some nice fillies, but hopefully she runs well and can get a piece of it."

Unbeaten Fancy Dress Party was a runaway winner of the Jan. 5 Glitter Woman Stakes at six furlongs. Three of the fillies who chased her home return in the Forward Gal, headed by There's A Chance Stable's Horologist, who finished a nose better than Brunette Princess and a length ahead of Jeltrin.

Courtlandt Farms' Hollywood Glory figures in the mix as well. The quick daughter of Maclean's Music  ran second in a pair of off-the-turf stakes in New York to close her juvenile campaign for trainer Mark Hennig. Bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, the $180,000 Keeneland September purchase is out of the Medaglia d'Oro  mare Marcellina d'Oro.

"We kind of entered her on the turf on purpose because we were dealing with all that weather in New York. All those races, it was pretty evident that they might come off," Hennig said. "She ran well in both her stakes races.

"She's done very well with the time between races. She's trained aggressively here, anything you want to do. Most of the time we're trying to slow her down. This race is one of those where I would have liked it to come up sooner, but we had to keep waiting it out. She's done well. I entered her in an (allowance race) that didn't go, so this is where we landed. She's been working super."

Six Column Stables and Randall Bloch's Champagne Anyone was impressive in back-to-back wins in Kentucky last fall and makes her 2019 bow off a fourth-place finish in November in Churchill Downs' two-turn Golden Rod Stakes (G2). The daughter of Street Sense  has fired a couple of bullets in the morning at Palm Meadows Training Center for trainer Ian Wilkes.

The Forward Gal, slated as the first of three graded stakes on Gulfstream's Saturday program, is the first in the track's series of races prepping for the May 3 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1). It is followed by the March 2 Davona Dale Stakes (G2) at a mile and the 1 1/16-mile Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) March 30. In 2016, Cathryn Sophia won both the Forward Gal and the Kentucky Oaks.

Entries: Forward Gal S. (G3)

Gulfstream Park, Saturday, February 02, 2019, Race 9

• Grade III
• 7f
• Dirt
• $150,000
• 3 yo Fillies
• 4:07 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Champagne Anyone (KY)	Chris Landeros	116	Ian R. Wilkes	8/1
2	2Horologist (NJ)	Albin Jimenez	116	John F. Mazza	12/1
3	3Fashion Faux Pas (KY)	Javier Castellano	120	Arnaud Delacour	4/1
4	4Feedback (KY)	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	116	Chad C. Brown	6/5
5	5Brunette Princess (FL)	Tyler Gaffalione	116	Gustavo Delgado	20/1
6	6Jeltrin (KY)	Leonel Reyes	116	Alexis Delgado	30/1
7	7Bye Bye J (AR)	John R. Velazquez	120	Ronald B. Spatz	5/1
8	8Hollywood Glory (KY)	Jose L. Ortiz	116	Mark A. Hennig	10/1
9	9Frond (KY)	Luis Saez	116	Ben Colebrook	12/1