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Peter D provided Andry Blanco the first stakes win of his brief training career in Saturday's $60,000 Journeyman Stud Juvenile, scoring a 1 ½-length length victory over the Tapeta racing surface at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The Journeyman Stud Juvenile, a mile-and-70-yard stakes for Florida-bred 2-year-olds on Tapeta, kicked off the stakes action on Saturday's 10-race program that also featured the $60,000 Khozan Juvenile Fillies Sprint, a six-furlong stakes for Florida-bred 2-year-old fillies, and the $60,000 Miami Beach, a mile overnight handicap for 3-year-olds and up.

Peter D, a son of He's Had Enough who is also owned by Blanco, saved ground into the stretch before overtaking pacesetter Mr. Rum Runner and drawing away to a comfortable victory in his first race around two turns and over an all-weather surface.

“A friend of mine offered him to me. The horse breezed pretty well over the Tapeta at OBS. He showed me the horse and I liked him and put an offer in and bought him,” Blanco said.

Peter D ($11) won at first asking in a $25,000 maiden claiming race over Delaware Park's main track Aug. 26, before finishing an even-fifth in the five-furlong Hollywood Beach on turf at Gulfstream last time out. The Florida-bred gelding ran a mile and 70 yards in 1:44.67 under Leonel Reyes to break through with a stakes victory Saturday. Mr. Rum Runner, a maiden with two in-the-money finishes going into his first race on Tapeta, held second, 2 ½ lengths ahead of C My Meister, the 2-1 favorite in a field of eight.

Peter D was Blanco's fourth winner from the 40 starters he has saddled since launching his training career last year.

The 40-year-old Blanco arrived in the U.S. from Venezuela in 2003. He rode 49 winners from 381 mounts during a career that included a seven-year break between 2005 and 2013.

“I've been breaking babies at OBS and I've been pinhooking. I'm still doing it,” said Blanco, who is currently training a stable of four. “I gallop. I break my horses. I do everything with the horses.”

In the Khozan Juvenile Fillies Sprint, Palm Beach Racing Partnership's She's So Beautiful ($12.20) wore down favored Sea Art with a determined stretch drive to prevail by a neck.

The Carlos David-trained daughter of Air Force Blue, who had won two of four starts going into Saturday's race, stalked the pace while racing three-wide before responding to Samy Camacho's urging in the stretch to win her stakes debut. She's So Beautiful ran seven furlongs in 1:25.28.

Sea Art held second under Emisael Jaramillo, a neck ahead of late-closing Demurely, who was ridden by Luca Panici.

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Palm Beach Racing Partnership's stakes winner Hot Blooded, once under consideration for the Breeders' Cup, ends a 12-week gap between starts when he makes his return in Saturday's $60,000 Juvenile Turf at Gulfstream Park West.

By Declaration of War, Hot Blooded has raced exclusively at Gulfstream Park in three starts. He debuted running fourth against fellow Florida-breds June 24 after bobbling and having to steady at the start, returning four weeks later to graduate in a seven-furlong maiden special weight that was rained off the grass.

Hot Blooded was then stepped up into stakes company in the one-mile Proud Man Aug. 29. Under Emisael Jaramillo, who rides back from outside Post 10, Hot Blooded settled off the early pace before tipping outside to take a short lead into the stretch, drawing clear to win by 2 1/4 lengths.

Trainer Carlos David said the connections thought enough of Hot Blooded to plot out a course to the Breeders' Cup that included a start in the Oct. 4 Grade 2 Bourbon Stakes, which offered the winner automatic entry to the Nov. 6 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, both races at Keeneland.

A minor mishap at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream's satellite training facility in Palm Beach County where David is based, nixed the idea.

“We had a little hiccup with him,” David said. “He needed to go to Keeneland the first week of October and he got loose and just got scraped and banged up a little bit so we had to pass on the Breeders' Cup. Obviously, the Bourbon was a 'Win and You're In' but, unfortunately, we couldn't do it. We decided to just stay here and train him toward this race. He's doing really good, really good.”

Hot Blooded has worked twice at Palm Meadows since overcoming his setback, half-mile breezes in 49.80 second Oct. 24 and 49.30 seconds Nov. 1.

“Since he got loose and got banged up just days before he would have gone out [to Kentucky], we had to just take it easy with him and try to get him back to his form,” David said. “He's had a couple of good workouts. This seems like a logical spot. It's a good race for him to come back.”

Stonehedge's Seazan is entered to make his turf debut after finishing third in the final two legs of the Florida Sire Stakes, the Aug. 29 Affirmed and the Sept. 26 In Reality. The son of Khozan has yet to finish worse than third in four starts, including a maiden special weight triumph Aug. 1 and more than $118,000 in purse earnings.

Jerry Campbell's Castle King is also multiple stakes-placed, having run third in the Proud Man behind Hot Blooded and seven-furlong Armed Forces Sept. 26. Most recently, the Verrazano gelding was second in an optional claiming allowance Oct. 26 over the Gulfstream West turf.

Armed Forces runner-up Fulmini, Catching Fish, Chess's Dream, El Sicario, Light Us Up and Toretto complete the field. Big Thorn is entered for main track only.

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