Juveniles take center stage on the Gulfstream Park turf course May 11, as a pair of $120,000, five-furlong stakes will award an automatic berth to one of six 2-year-old races held at the Royal Ascot meeting June 18-22.
Trainer George Weaver hopes for déjà vu after sweeping the 2023 series with Crimson Advocate, who would win Royal Ascot's Queen Mary Stakes (G2), in the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies and No Nay Mets in the Royal Palm Juvenile. This year, he brings a first-time starter to each race.
Good Long Cry debuts in the Juvenile Fillies for Black Type Thoroughbreds, Swinbank Stables, Steve Adkisson, and Campeche Stables. In the Juvenile, Weaver sends Governor Sam for owners Bregman Family Racing and Swinbank Stables.
FIRST-OUT Winners Include:
- The Queens M G won by a head on the dirt at Keeneland April 7 and joins the barn of trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. for the Juvenile Fillies.
- Perfect Shances soared to a 4 3/4-length victory over a sloppy Keeneland track April 11 for trainer Wesley Ward and rider Walter Rodriguez, who returns for the ride in the Juvenile Fillies.
- Ward and Rodriguez team up with the only winner in the field of 12 colts for the Juvenile, Raise the Bar, who wired an April 10 Keeneland maiden race by 2 1/4 lengths.
The Juvenile Fillies will go off as race 8 at 4:49 p.m. ET, and the Juvenile will be race 10 at 5:52.
Gulfstream Park, Saturday, May 11, 2024, Race 8Entries: Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies S.
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1China Blue (FL) Jose E. Morelos 118 Javier E. Gonzalez 30/1 2 2Kip the Distance (FL) Maikol Hernandez 118 Angel M. Rodriguez 30/1 3 3Bunratty Manor (IRE) Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr. 118 George Weaver 12/1 4 4You Need Me (FL) Leonel Reyes 118 J. David Braddy 30/1 5 5Bullet (KY) Emisael Jaramillo 118 Mark E. Casse 6/1 6 6Ramsey Pond (KY) Samy Camacho 118 Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. 10/1 7 7The Queens M G (KY) Edgard J. Zayas 121 Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. 5/1 8 8Bois Blanc (KY) Sonny Leon 118 Justin Wojczynski 12/1 9 9Perfect Shances (KY) Walter A. Rodriguez 121 Wesley A. Ward 9/5 10 10Good Long Cry (FL) Edwin Gonzalez 118 George Weaver 10/1 11 11My Emmy (KY) Miguel Angel Vasquez 118 Mark E. Casse 10/1 12 12Unchained Elaine (KY) Keith J. Asmussen 118 Patrick L. Biancone 8/1
Entries: Royal Palm Juvenile S.
Gulfstream Park, Saturday, May 11, 2024, Race 10
- STK
- 5f
- Turf
- $120,000
- 2 yo
- 5:52 PM (local)
| PP | Horse | Jockey | Wgt | Trainer | M/L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Makeit to Cheyenne (KY) | Sonny Leon | 118 | Mark E. Casse | 20/1 |
| 2 | 2Enterdadragon (KY) | Leonel Reyes | 118 | Jose Francisco D'Angelo | 30/1 |
| 3 | 3Madroc (KY) | Edgar Perez | 118 | Mary Lightner | 12/1 |
| 4 | 4Classy War (KY) | Jose E. Morelos | 118 | Mark E. Casse | 12/1 |
| 5 | 5Reach for the Rose (KY) | Edgard J. Zayas | 118 | Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. | 8/1 |
| 6 | 6I Know I Know (FL) | Keith J. Asmussen | 118 | Patrick L. Biancone | 15/1 |
| 7 | 7Gabaldon (FL) | Emisael Jaramillo | 118 | Jose Francisco D'Angelo | 30/1 |
| 8 | 8Raise the Bar (TX) | Walter A. Rodriguez | 121 | Wesley A. Ward | 9/5 |
| 9 | 9Bright Skittle (KY) | Luca Panici | 118 | George R. Arnold, II | 6/1 |
| 10 | 10Governor Sam (KY) | Edwin Gonzalez | 118 | George Weaver | 9/2 |
| 11 | 11Incanto (IRE) | Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr. | 118 | Jack Sisterson | 10/1 |
| 12 | 12Garden of War (KY) | Miguel Angel Vasquez | 118 | Mark E. Casse | 10/1 |
