First-time stakes winners highlight Sunday’s card at Gulfstream

First-time stakes winners highlight Sunday’s card at
Gulfstream

Believe in Charlie captured her first stakes by a length in the Ladies Turf Sprint (Leslie Martin/Adam Coglianese Photography) Believe in Charlie scored her first stakes on Sunday in the $90,000 Ladies Turf Sprint at Gulfstream Park as the 8-1 second longest shot on the board and paid $19.60 for the win. The Tom Bush pupil rated off the pace as 3-2 favorite Runaway Ready posted an opening split in :20 1/5 before fading. Believe in Charlie angled to the outside around the far turn, claimed the lead near the top of the stretch and held on to prevail by a length. The four-year-old daughter of Indian Charlie sprinted five furlongs over the firm turf in :54 3/5 with Javier Castellano aboard. Allwewantforxmas got up for second. It was another 3 3/4 lengths back to third-place finisher My Due Process, who was a nose better than Queen’s Award in fourth. Runaway Ready, Bounding Bi, Flower Spell and Cor Cor completed the order order the wire. Giulio’s Jewel and Madame Giry were scratched.

Believe in Charlie broke her maiden in her racing bow as a two-year-old at
Calder in August 2012 and was a fading sixth in her stakes debut in the Cassidy
the following month. The bay was a well-beaten fourth in the Pearl City over the
dirt at Aqueduct last November and was exiting a win against allowance company
over this turf course just last month. Believe in Charlie has a career record
that reads 14-4-0-2 and $174,124 in career earnings.

West Bury Stables LLC’s Florida homebred, Believe in Charlie is out of the
unraced Storm Cat mare Zehoorr, whose dam was Grade 1 winner Nany’s Sweep. Her
female family also includes Grade 2 scorer Well Monied as well as multiple Grade
3 victress Nany.

Believe in Charlie RNA’d as weanling for $120,000 at the OBS Fall Mixed Sale.

Ready Signal scored by a nose in the Ten Palms for her first stakes win (Natalie Fawkes/Adam Coglianese Photography) Earlier on the Gulfstream card, Hardacre Farm LLC’s Ready Signal pulled off the upset by a nose over 2-1 favorite Byrama in the $75,000 Ten Palms Stakes. The five-year-old mare was sent off as the 17-1 third longest shot on the board and paid $37.60 for her first stakes victory. “It worked out beautifully, exactly how we planned it. I was able to split horses and she was there for me. I was very fortunate to have that kind of trip,” jockey Edgar Prado said. “It was close (at the finish), because I didn’t know how much horse Johnny (Velazquez aboard Byrama) had when he got through, but the angle made the difference.” Ready Signal settled off the pace before mounting a late rally down the center of the racetrack and got up just in time. The daughter of More Than Ready covered one mile in 1:34 on the grass.

“She’s my high-maintenance chick in the barn. I was very concerned. It was
hot and she didn’t clean up her food. I’m a mother, I worry about everything,”
owner and trainer Amy Tarrant said. “But she did a great job and Edgar
gave her a great ride and did everything he needed to do to win. I knew
if she ran her best race and got a good trip that she could win it, and she did.

“I’m just going to enjoy this. I don’t know,” Tarrant said when asked what
was next for her mare. “Remember she’s five, I might send her to the breeding
shed. No matter what, she’s going to be bred. Right now, I’m just going to enjoy
it. I love this horse.”

Ready Signal, who is out of the Grade 3-placed multiple stakes-winning Marlin
mare Marwood, counts as her third dam Grade 2 heroine Wood So. The chestnut was coming off a second-place finish against allowance company
over this course last month, and now sports a career mark of 18-3-2-2,
$168,964.

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