BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE (Edited)
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL—Amy Dunne and trainer Patrick Biancone’s Squire produced a bullet workout Saturday at Palm Meadows Training Center in preparation for a scheduled start in next Saturday’s $100,000 Dr. Fager, the six-furlong first leg of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Florida Sire Stakes for 2-year-olds sired by accredited Florida stallions.
The son of Pleasant Acres Stallions’ freshman sire Leinster breezed three furlongs in :35.70, the fastest of 22 workouts at the distance recorded at Gulfstream Park’s satellite training facility in Palm Beach County. Jockey Jonathan Ocasio was aboard for the sixth in a series of workouts following Squire’s second-place finish in the $100,000 Royal Palm Juvenile May 10 at Gulfstream.
“He did very well,” Biancone said. “He’s in good form.”
Squire, who rallied from off the pace to win his April 18 debut at four-and-a-half furlongs, set the pace in the mile Royal Palm Juvenile on turf before settling for second, a length-and-a-half behind Sandal’s Song, who went on to finish third in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes June 19 at Royal Ascot.
Squire will make his return to action as a first-time gelding. A field of eight were entered for the Dr. Fager.
Squire is out of Saudi Chroma, by Lucky Pulpit and was bred in Florida by Amy E. and Ciaran G. Dunne. He has $71,560 in earnings from his two races.
The Dr. Fager will co-headline next Saturday’s card with the $100,000 Desert Vixen, the six-furlong first leg of the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes for juvenile fillies sired by accredited Florida stallions.
Biancone-trained Florida-bred Lennilu, who won her April 6 debut at Keeneland before capturing the $100,000 Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies at Gulfstream before finishing third in the Queen Mary (G2) June 18 at Royal Ascot, will run in either the Desert Vixen or the $1 million Untapable on turf at Kentucky Downs Sept. 7.
Lennilu is by Leinster out of Lulu’s Pom Pom, by Pomeroy and was bred in Florida by Helen and Joseph Barbazon. She has earned $103,289 in her three starts.
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