Promising allowance winners Top Billing has drawn gate twelve in the $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes (gr. II), where he will once again face Commissioner -- who defeated Top Billing earlier this year --as well as Breeders' Futurity (gr. I) winner We Miss Artie, Hutcheson Stakes (gr. III) winner Wildcat Red, and Gulfstream Park Derby winner General a Rod.
The 1 1/16th-mile raced has been won the last two years by Orb (eventual winner of the Kentucky Derby) and Union Rags (eventual winner of the Belmont Stakes), proving that the Fountain of Youth is a key road to success in the Triple Crown. The race is to be run on February 22nd at Gulfstream Park.
Top Billing, considered by many to be a leading contender for the Kentucky Derby, enters the Fountain of Youth off of an eye-catching victory in an allowance race here at Gulfstream, in which he unleashed a last-to-first rally around the far turn to win in decisive fashion. Trained by Shug McGaughey, Top Billing will be looking to give his trainer a second consecutive victory in the Fountain of Youth.
Entries:
PP/Horse
1 Commissioner
2 We Miss Artie
3 Medal Count
4 Wildcat Red
5 General a Rod
6 Casiguapo
7 C. Zee
8 Almost Famous
9 Best Plan Yet
10 Our Caravan
11 Hesinfront
12 Top Billing
13 East Hall
-Keelerman
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