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Power Squeeze Makes It Three Straight With Suncoast Win

Power Squeeze may have finally put it all together in time to pick up 20 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks with a win in Saturday's Suncoast S. Racing along the Mid-Atlantic last season, it took the $90,000 OBSAPR grad three tries to break her maiden when she caught an off-the-turf one-mile event at Delaware Oct. 7. After a short layoff, Jorge Delgado shipped Power Squeeze south to Gulfstream where she upset the Cash Run S. at odds of 8-1 to open her 3-year-old season Jan. 1.

Second on the board at 3-1 Saturday behind last-out GII Demoiselle S. winner Life Talk (Gun Runner), Power Squeeze was always involved with the early pace and stalked from third while locked in against the fence behind pacesetter Managing Mischief (Maximus Mischief). Still caught in amongst the pack through a half in :48.94, the Delgado trainee began to find running room past the quarter pole and shot clear once space opened inside the furlong marker. 6-1 shot Whocouldaskformo barely held off 28-1 shot America's Vow to fill a pricey trifecta. 2-5 favorite Life Talk came up empty into the stretch and faded to trail the field home.

Union Rags currently sits at 32 stakes winners while Callmethesqueeze, now a producer of two stakes winners herself, has a 2-year-old Street Sense filly and a yearling Liam's Map colt still to run. She visited top freshman stallion Vino Rosso for 2024. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

 

SUNCOAST S., $100,000, Tampa Bay Downs, 2-10, 3yo, f, 1m 40y, 1:40.22, ft.
1–POWER SQUEEZE, 122, f, 3, by Union Rags
                1st Dam: Callmethesqueeze (MSW, $324,499),
                                by Awesome Again
                2nd Dam: Mop Squeezer, by Roanoke
                3rd Dam: Honey League Girl, by Honey Jay
($50,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP; $90,000 2yo '23 OBSAPR). O-Lea
Farms, LLC; B-Forging Oaks LLC (KY); T-Jorge Delgado; J-Daniel
Centeno. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $188,650. *1/2 to
Call On Mischief (Into Mischief), SW, $283,237.
2–Whocouldaskformo, 120, f, 3, Uncle Mo–Midnight Belle,
by Bernardini. ($450,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE.
O-Courtlandt Farms (Donald Adam); B-Summer Wind Equine
LLC (KY); T-Claude R. McGaughey III. $20,000.
3–America's Vow, 120, f, 3, Constitution–Cloudy Vow, by
Broken Vow. 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Patricia Pavlish (KY);
T-Timothy E. Hamm. $10,000.
Margins: 2 3/4, HD, 3/4. Odds: 3.00, 6.00, 28.70.
Also Ran: Managing Mischief, Gorgeous Girl, Life Talk.

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Longshot Dreaming Of Snow Takes Suncoast S.

Since breaking her maiden at Colonial Downs last September, Dreaming of Snow has been a Florida girl, contesting three straight at Tampa Bay Downs including an 8 1/2-length win against optional claimers two starts back Dec. 17. Fourth in the Gasparilla S. Jan. 14 behind a pair ofrivals she faced Saturday, the $60,000 OBS March grad was let go as an unconvincing 38-1 shot against newly crowned Eclipse champion Wonder Wheel and GII Demoiselle S. winner Julia Shining.

Undeterred by the falling rain and hustled to the front after brief contact with Champagne Calling (Empire Maker) to her inside at the break, Dreaming of Snow tucked in against the rail continued to set the tempo up the backstretch, opening up nearly a length on the field as the opening half went in :47.07. Challenged by a three-wide Wonder Wheel as the field exited the far turn, Dreaming of Snow refused to give in, fighting gamely on the rail to hold off the champ and a closing Julia Shining for the win.

“I know this filly well and when I got on her in the morning for the first time, I told [trainer Gerald Bennett] I have to stay on her,” said winning jockey Samy Camacho. “She's pretty nice, but I never thought she would run two turns like this. She came back again when Wonder Wheel came to her. I beat Wonder Wheel– Wow! I'm pretty happy!”

Snow Fashion has a 2-year-old colt, Snowname (The Big Beast) and foaled another colt, Keep On Snowing (Valiant Minister), last year but was not reported bred for 2023.

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SUNCOAST S., $150,000, Tampa Bay Downs, 2-11, 3yo, f,
1m 40y, 1:40.18, ft.
1–DREAMING OF SNOW, 120, f, 3, by Jess's Dream
                1st Dam: Snow Fashion, by Old Fashioned
                2nd Dam: Snow Lass, by Stormy Atlantic
                3rd Dam: Keri's Snowman, by Frosty the Snowman
($35,000 Ylg '21 OBSOCT; $60,000 2yo '22 OBSMAR).
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Team Equistaff, LLC & Winning
Stables, Inc.; B-Karyn Philipp (FL); T-Gerald S. Bennett; J-Samy
Camacho. $110,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-0, $170,850.
*1/2 to Montauk Daddy (Daddy Long Legs), SP, $407,329.
2–Wonder Wheel, 124, f, 3, Into Mischief–Wonder Gal,
by Tiz Wonderful. ($275,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-D. J. Stable
LLC; B-Three Chimneys Farm, LLC & Clearsky Farms (KY);
T-Mark E. Casse. $20,000.
3–Julia Shining, 124, f, 3, Curlin–Dreaming of Julia, by A.P. Indy.
O/B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Todd A.
Pletcher. $10,000.
Margins: NK, 1 1/4, 7. Odds: 38.00, 0.50, 2.30.
Also Ran: Opus Forty Two, Charlie's Wish, Champagne Calling, Fast Tracked, Ticker Tape Home. Scratched: Guns n' Graces.

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Champ Wonder Wheel Gearing Up for Sophomore Debut

Every morning at 8:30 sharp, 'The Wonder Wheel Show' takes over Casse Training Center in Ocala. Just after the break, the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies champion and newly crowned Eclipse Award winner takes to a freshly groomed track and flies through her paces solo before regular training resumes.

“She gets her own set,” trainer Mark Casse said with a grin. “She's special.”

Casse's smile grew even wider Monday morning as he watched Wonder Wheel in action. After a day off on Sunday, the daughter of Into Mischief was enthusiastic about getting back to training as she tugged on the bit at a gallop.

Wonder Wheel went through her early schooling as a 2-year-old at Casse's training center and she returned to the Ocala operation following her Breeders' Cup victory. After a bit of time off, she resumed her training. Now, Casse said the D.J. Stable colorbearer is looking better than ever.

“She's training super,” he reported. “She's a tall filly. She's almost 17 hands. I think she has filled out a little bit. When you give a horse time off like we did, it takes them a little while to kind of get back in the groove. But she's in the groove.”

The champ has put in four works in Ocala this year, most recently breezing five furlongs in :59 on Jan. 25 and then going four furlongs in 48 flat last Thursday in preparation for her 3-year-old debut in Saturday's Suncoast S. at Tampa Bay Downs.

“She had as good a work last week as I've seen her ever work,” Casse said. “And more importantly, her training has been really good coming up to this race.”

Along with fellow Casse trainee Ticker Tape Home (Medaglia d'Oro), probables for the Suncoast include Stonestreet Stables homebred Julia Shining (Curlin), who is undefeated in two starts and will be coming in off a win in the GII Demoiselle S. in December.

Casse said he hopes that on Saturday, Wonder Wheel and Tyler Gaffalione can perhaps find a happy medium between their come-from-behind Breeders' Cup performance and the prior wire-to-wire victory in the GI Darley Alcibiades S.

“I think normally if she breaks running, Tyler will have her fairly close,” he explained. “But as she showed in the Breeders' Cup, she can do a little bit of anything.”

According to Casse, Wonder Wheel's road to the GI Kentucky Oaks after the Suncoast will go through Lexington for the GI Ashland S.

Casse has always been enthusiastic in his praise for the big bay, comparing her to the likes of Wonder Gadot, Classic Empire and War of Will as early as last August in Saratoga ahead of her runner-up effort in the GI Spinaway S. (TDN story here). Now that Wonder Wheel has given Casse his sixth Breeders' Cup victory, he remains unwavering in his faith in the talented filly.

“She may be one of the best horses I've ever trained,” he said. “But I don't want to get too far ahead. Let's see how she does going from two to three. We're going to let her do the talking.”

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Curlin Filly Bosses Rivals in Suncoast

Favored at 9-5 while making her return to stakes company in Saturday's Suncoast S. at Tampa Bay Downs, Breeze Easy's Curlin's Catch (Curlin) split horses decisively at the entrance to the home stretch and powered clear to score by daylight.

Beaten for speed in a scratched-down field of seven, the Ontario-bred raced slightly worse than midfield through the opening stages with a couple of rivals behind. Ridden quietly down the backstretch, she caught the eye when rallying between rivals three furlongs out, took an inside path into the lane and ran out a convincing winner. Pacesetting Be Sneaky (Into Mischief) set a moderate tempo and held for second ahead of Il Malocchio (Souper Speedy) in third.

A debut second two-turning over the Woodbine synthetic Oct. 11, the Sam-Son-bred filly was a low-odds fifth in the restricted Princess Elizabeth S. Oct. 31 before getting some time off. The $180,000 KEESEP yearling turned $440,000 OBSAPR breezer made her first appearance on the dirt in a one-mile event at Gulfstream Jan. 3, leading throughout to score by 2 3/4 lengths.

Curlin's Catch is one of three winners from six to race from her dam, Canada's Sovereign Award-winning juvenile filly of 2006. The winner, the 74th at stakes level for her sire, is bred on the very potent cross over A.P. Indy-line mares that has been responsible for the likes of champion Stellar Wind, other Grade I winners Global Campaign and Paris Lights and other graded winners Tenfold, Point of Honor and Malathaat. Catch the Thrill, who RNAd for $180,000 at KEENOV in 2018, produced a full-sister to Curlin's Catch in 2019. She was most recently bred to Curlin's Grade I-winning son Connect.

SUNCOAST S., $100,000, Tampa Bay Downs, 2-6, 3yo, f, 1m 40y, 1:40.89, ft.
1–CURLIN'S CATCH, 118, f, 3, by Curlin
1st Dam: Catch the Thrill (Ch. 2yo Filly-Can, SW, $290,167), by A.P. Indy
1nd Dam: Catch the Ring, by Seeking the Gold
3rd Dam: Radiant Ring, by Halo
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. ($180,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP; $430,000 2yo '20 OBSAPR). O-Breeze Easy LLC; B-Sam-Son Farm (ON); T-Mark E Casse; J-Antonio A Gallardo. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, $103,454. *1/2 to Chic Thrill (Smart Strike), SP, $159,375.
2–Be Sneaky, 118, f, 3, Into Mischief–Bella Castani, by Big Brown. O-Lael Stables; B-M Roy Jackson (KY); T-Arnaud Delacour. $20,000.
3–Il Malocchio, 118, f, 3, Souper Speedy–Egbert Bay, by Sligo Bay (Ire). O/B-Franco S Meli (ON); T-Kenneth G McPeek. $10,000.
Margins: 4HF, HF, 3/4. Odds: 1.80, 4.80, 4.00.
Also Ran: Special Princess, Feeling Mischief, Roll Up Mo Money, Scenic Overlook. Scratched: Gulf Coast, Honorifique, Jade Empress.
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