BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE (Edited)
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL—Disappointed by Prevent’s most recent runner-up effort, trainer Jorge Delgado is looking for the son of Pleasant Acres Stallions’ Neolithic to show up in Saturday’s $95,000 Showing Up at Gulfstream Park.
BC Racing LLC’s Prevent was upset as the 4-5 favorite in an upper level, $75,000 optional claiming on Oct. 5 in his first start since being transferred to Delgado. The Florida-bred colt will face 11 other 3-year-olds in the Showing Up, a mile-and-a-sixteenth turf stakes that will co-headline Saturday’s 11-race program with the $95,000 Armed Forces, a mile turf stakes for 2-year-olds.
“We were expecting more that day. It was raining during the race. Maybe it wasn’t the best setup for him. It was a small field,” Delgado said of the four-horse field. “He is training very well. He should be competitive. He doesn’t have the best post position with the 12.”
Delgado is hopeful that Prevent can take advantage of a quick start with no one to his outside.
“He’s a horse that wants to be on the lead and he wants to be free,” Delgado said. “He’s a horse that the longer he goes the better he will do.”
Prevent, who will be ridden back by Edgard Zayas, is rated at 6-1 on the morning line in the well-matched Showing Up field behind 4-1 morning-line favorite Silent Heart.
Prevent is a graduate of the 2022 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Winter Mixed Sale where Brian Cohen purchased him for $15,000 out of the Las Palmas Farm consignment.
Out of Bossy Gal, by Pioneerof the Nile, Prevent was bred in Florida by Katia Perez Ozuna.
Terry Hamilton and Koocanusa Ventures’ Silent Heart has shown a distinct fondness for the turf at Gulfstream in the past – something that runs in his bloodlines. Silent Heart is a homebred son of Heart to Heart, who was a force on Gulfstream turf between 2016 and 2018 for Hamilton and trainer Brian Lynch. The multiple Grade 1 stakes-winning son of English Channel captured the 2018 Gulfstream Park Turf (G1), currently contested as the Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1), after winning the El Prado and Canadian Turf (G3) in 2017 and the Canadian Turf and the Ft. Lauderdale (G2) in 2016.
Silent Heart, who finished second at Horseshoe Indianapolis and Churchill Downs in his first two starts, graduated impressively in a five-furlong maiden special weight on turf last Dec. 7 before coming right back to win a five-furlong first condition, $75,000 optional claiming on synthetic a month later. Back on turf, Silent Heart was beaten by just a neck while finishing third in the Colonel Liam won by Abrumar on March 2.
The Lynch trainee has gone winless in three subsequent starts, including a third-place finish in an Oct. 6 allowance while returning from a five-month layoff.
Edgar Perez is scheduled to ride Silent Heart, whose best showings have been at the five-furlong distance for the first time Saturday.
Gary Barber’s In a Jam also returns to Gulfstream, where he captured the mile-and-a-sixteenth Not Surprising on synthetic on June 8. The son of Preservationist hasn’t won in four subsequent out-of-town races, but he did finish a troubled third in the Secretariat (G2) at Colonial Downs three starts back.
Trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse, In a Jam won back-to-back starts on turf during the Championship Meet, graduating at a mile and coming back to capture a first level, $75,000 optional claiming going seven-and-a-half furlongs on the turf.
In a Jam, who is rated at 5-1 on the morning line, will be ridden by Emisael Jaramillo.
This story has been edited for style.
