Hallandale Beach, FL (SportsNetwork.com) – Odds-on favorite Barbados, ridden by Luis Saez, battled through the stretch with the early leader and went on to claim Saturday’s $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes for 3-year-olds at Gulfstream Park.<\/p>\n
Trained by Mike Tomlinson, Barbados went off as the 7-10 favorite in the six- horse field with the scratch of Mucho Macho Man Stakes champ Bluegrass Singer to run in the card’s Holy Bull Stakes.<\/p>\n
Barbados left from the outside post and pressed pacesetter X Y Jet, the 3-1 second choice, along with 7-2 third pick Dom the Bomb in the seven-furlong stakes.<\/p>\n
The favorite moved along side X Y Jet on the final turn and the two were even entering the stretch. Barbados edged to the lead in mid-stretch and was able to register a half-length victory over X Y Jet with Big Family getting third.<\/p>\n
“Any good horse has heart and he showed us some heart today,” Tomlinson noted.<\/p>\n
Richard the Great was fourth followed by Bridget’s Big Luvy and Dom the Bomb. Stanford was also an early scratch.<\/p>\n
The time for the Hutcheson was 1:24.39 on a fast track.<\/p>\n
Owned by Paul and Suzanne Hanifl’s Suzanne Stables, Barbados notched his second stakes win of the year having won the Spectacular Bid on Jan. 3 at Gulfstream. The Hutcheson victory was worth $90,000 to put the colt’s career earnings at $203,650.<\/p>\n
Barbados began his career on the turf at Kentucky Downs with a second and a fifth before winning on Keeneland’s newly installed dirt main track, listed as sloppy, last October.<\/p>\n
Barbados returned $3.40, $2.40 and $2.10. X Y Jet paid $3.40 and $2.80, and Big Family paid $4.20 to show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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