BY BROCK SHERIDAN
Florida-bred Bronze Bullet makes his first trip outside his native Sunshine State for Saturday’s $150,000 Paradise Creek, a six-furlong outer turf sprint for nine sophomores during the Belmont at the Big A meet at Aqueduct.
In addition to the purse, Bronze Bullet goes for a $4,000 Export Incentive paid by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association to breeders Charles Weston of Anthony and Robert Vickers of Ocala should the chestnut colt win at this level.
Bronze Bullet dead heated for first with Glorious Boy in the $100,000 Pulpit (Listed) at Gulfstream Park in November when the mile-and-70-yard race for 2-year-olds was taken off the turf. Bronze Bullet was disqualified and placed second for interference but gets another shot at Glorious Boy Saturday.
The Jose D’Angelo-trained colt started this year with a string of three consecutive third-place finishes beginning February 12 in a first condition, $75,000 optional claiming going seven-and-a-half-furlongs on the turf. He remained on the grass next out in a one-mile, first condition allowance race for Florida-breds on March 2 before switching back to synthetic on April 2 under the same conditions but sprinting five-and-a-half furlongs.
Last out on May 2 at Gulfstream, Bronze Bullet was fourth, beaten three lengths by Florida-bred winner Bolero Bay in the $96,000 English Channel going a mile on grass.
Since winning a maiden special weight on synthetic in his first start, the son of Leinster out of Renovation, by Alternation has two seconds and three thirds. In seven career races, he has had earned $108,275 for Three Diamonds Farm, who bought him for $180,000 out of the Grassroots Training and Sales consignment of David McKathan and Judy Mihalic at the 2025 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring Sale.
He is a three-time OBS graduate, having first sold for $7,000 to C-G Stables at the 2024 OBS Winter Mixed Sale where he was consigned by Lisa McGreevy’s Abbie Road Farm. Grassroots took him for $37,000 out the Musketeers Equine consignment at the 2024 OBS October Yearling Sale.
Flavien Prat will ride Bronze Bullet for the first time and they have post five.
Since the Pulpit, Glorious Boy has two fifth-place finishes in two Gulfstream Park turf stakes this year, the last on January 31 in the $155,000 Kitten’s Joy.
The gelded son of Independence Hall was just two-and-a-half lengths shy of winner Alpyland in the $150,000 Dania Beach (Listed) going a mile on January 1 and three-and-a-quarter lengths behind winner Thousandsticks in the Kitten’s Joy at a mile-and-a-sixteenth.
Glorious Boy has earned $144,990 for Centurion Thoroughbred Club with a career record of two wins and a second in seven starts for trainer Carlos Martin.
Glorious Boy will be ridden by John Velazquez from post seven.
Rounding out the field are Chasing Freedom and jockey Dylan Davis, Track Tiger has Kendrick Carmouche taking the call, Manny Franco rides Intricate Spirit, Capanaparo has Edgard Zayas up, Azizam (GB) has Javier Castellano named to ride, Jaime Rodriguez guides Twilight Delight and Ricardo Santana Jr. has the mount on Itza Lock.
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