Delgado ‘Confident’ in Mythical Ahead of Juvenile Debut

Arindel’s Mythical, a bay homebred daughter of St Patrick’s Day, has thrilled her connections and figures to draw plenty of attention from bettors as South Florida’s juvenile season gets under way Thursday at Gulfstream Park.

The first 2-year-old race of the year features fillies sprinting 4 ½ furlongs over the main track in a maiden special weight that goes as Race 2 on an eight-race program that kicks off at 12:50 p.m.

Favored at 8-5 on the morning line in an overflow field of 11, Mythical shows six timed works for her unveiling, the last two coming this month over Gulfstream’s main track after four breezes at Arindel’s farm in Ocala.

“We are very confident with her. She has done everything really good since she came to the barn. It’s amazing how smart she is at this stage of her life,” trainer Jorge Delgado said. “She’s a very quiet filly in the stall. She’s very game and professional in her breezes. She does everything real easy when she breezes. She hasn’t been asked and she’s breezed really good times.

“I don’t have one horse at this stage that is smarter than that one,” he added. “That being said, that’s the reason she’s in the first race of the season. She’s a little filly. She’ll need to grow more down the road to be in the big leagues, but for the race (today) I think she’ll be more than fine.”

In her most recent work Mythical went three furlongs from the gate in 35.28 seconds April 10 after going the same distance in a bullet 36.10 seconds seven days earlier. Emisael Jaramillo will ride from Post 2.