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Sacristy Shows Promise in New Year's Old Hat

Sacristy Shows Promise in New Year's Old Hat

The New Year's Day Old Hat Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park points to a promising 3-year-old campaign for Sacristy, who won the $100,000 main track test in smart style.

 Sunday, January 01, 2012
3YOs Get Started in Old Hat, GP Derby

3YOs Get Started in Old Hat, GP Derby

Awesome Belle, Bet to Win, and Say a Novena, all consistent performers until their most recent stakes efforts, will try to take a step back in the right direction when they contest the Old Hat (gr. III) Jan. 1 at Gulfstream.

 Thursday, December 29, 2011
Final Mesa Makes Trip Worthwhile for Rosario

Final Mesa Makes Trip Worthwhile for Rosario

Final Mesa left her rivals behind in the stretch to register her first graded stakes score for Wesley Ward in the $100,000 Old Hat (gr. III) on opening day of the 2011 Gulfstream Park meet Jan. 5.

 Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Roxy Gap Favored for Gulfstream Park Opener

Roxy Gap Favored for Gulfstream Park Opener

Roxy Gap won all three of her starts at Woodbine last summer by big margins for trainer Mark Casse and is the morning-line pick for the $100,000 Old Hat Stakes Jan. 5, opening day feature of the 2011 Gulfstream Park meet.

 Sunday, January 02, 2011
A Little Warm Rallies For Spectacular Bid Win

A Little Warm Rallies For Spectacular Bid Win

A Little Warm followed up his maiden-breaking score with a victory in his stakes debut, as he came from off the pace and splashed home to a 1 1/2-length win in the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes.

 Saturday, January 09, 2010
3YO Stakes Series Kicks Off at Gulfstream

3YO Stakes Series Kicks Off at Gulfstream

Three-year-olds, both males and females, get their first chance to face stakes competition at Gulfstream Park in 2010 when they run a pair of six-furlong sprints on Jan. 9.

 Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Gemswick Park Captures Old Hat Thriller

Gemswick Park Captures Old Hat Thriller

Gemswick Park, sandwiched between two undefeated fillies as they lurched toward the wire, got her nose in front at the line to win an exciting renewal of the $100,000 Old Hat Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park Jan. 4.

 Sunday, January 04, 2009
Frolic's Dream Tops Old Hat Hopefuls

Frolic's Dream Tops Old Hat Hopefuls

Frolic's Dream leaves the friendly confines of Calder Race Course for the first time when she puts her undefeated record on the line against six rivals in the $100,000 Old Hat Stakes (gr. III) Jan. 4 at Gulfstream Park.

 Thursday, January 01, 2009
Elusive Lady Should Own Comely

Elusive Lady Should Own Comely

If Gold Mark Farm's Elusive Lady can continue the forward progress she demonstrated with a runner-up effort in the March 15 Florida Oaks (gr. III), the $150,000 Comely Stakes (gr. II) at Aqueduct should be all hers April 12.

 Thursday, April 10, 2008
Old Hat Draws Talented Field

Old Hat Draws Talented Field

3-year-old fillies including Indy's Alexandra and Elusive Lady will launch their 2008 campaigns in the Jan. 12 edition of the Old Hat Stakes (gr. II) at Gulfstream Park.

 Thursday, January 10, 2008

Champion Filly Dreaming of Anna Returns in Old Hat

Frank Calabrese's undefeated Eclipse champion filly Dreaming of Anna makes her highly anticipated 3-year-old debut in Saturday's $150,000 Old Hat Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park, facing five rivals with Rene Douglas aboard.

 Thursday, February 08, 2007

Misty Rosette Makes Old Hat Look Easy in Slop

Sonia Chapman and Stuart Tsujimoto's 3-year-old filly Misty Rosette remained undefeated in her three starts after splashing home a four-length winner over Swap Fliparoo in Saturday's $100,000 Old Hat Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park.

 Saturday, February 04, 2006

Tight Donn Part of Gulf Stakes Action Saturday

Elisabeth Alexander's 4-year-old Magna Graduate and Jay Em Ess Stable's 5-year-old Suave will be among the choices in the field of nine entered for Saturday's $500,000, 1 1/8-mile Donn Handicap (gr. I). They finished one-two in the Clark Handicap (gr. II) at Churchill Downs Nov. 25, with Magna Graduate taking the nod by a head.

 Thursday, February 02, 2006

Alfonsina, Toll Taker Topweighted in Old Hat

New York graded stakes winner Toll Taker and New York graded stakes-placed Alfonsina share the topweight of 119 pounds in Saturday's Old Hat Stakes (gr. III) at Gulfstream Park.

 Thursday, February 03, 2005

Zito Readies for Big Weekend at Gulfstream Park

Trainer Nick Zito is preparing for a big weekend at Gulfstream Park, saddling runners in the Donn Handicap (gr. I), Davona Dale Stakes (gr. II), Old Hat Stakes (gr. III), and Holy Bull Stakes (gr. III), as well as celebrating his 57th birthday.

 Thursday, February 03, 2005

Wynn Dot Comma Faces 10 Rivals in Hutcheson

Graded stakes winner Wynn Dot Comma will get a sharp challenge from a couple of Todd Pletcher-trained rivals, Deputy Storm and Limehouse, in the 51st running of the $150,000 Hutcheson (gr. II) Saturday, a seven-furlong test for 3-year-olds at Gulfstream Park.

 Thursday, February 12, 2004

House Party Has Something to Celebrate

Joseph V. Shields Jr.'s homebred House Party angled out in the stretch and circled her four rivals at the sixteenth pole, drawing off to a 1 1/2-length victory over favored Chimichurri in the $100,000 Old Hat Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Gulfstream Park Sunday.

 Sunday, February 02, 2003

Devil at the Wire, Holiday Runner Expected in Herecomesthebride

This weekend's Herecomesthebride Stakes, a race on the turf for 3-year-old fillies, is the only graded event at Gulfstream. Allen Jerkens plans to run two fillies in Friday's Old Hat Stakes.

 Wednesday, January 29, 2003

A New Twist Reverses Valley Stream Decision in Old Hat Stakes

A New Twist upset 3-10 favorite Forest Heiress by 3 1/2 lengths Sunday in the $100,000 Old Hat Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on a showery day at Gulfstream Park. In her most recent start prior to the Old Hat, A New Twist finished second to Forest Heiress in the Valley Stream Stakes (gr. III) at Aqueduct.

 Sunday, January 06, 2002