G2 Winner Largent Launching Comeback in 100k G3 Tropical Turf
At 2h14, on January 8, 2022 • By GULFSTREAM
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Twin Creeks Racing Stable’s Grade 2 winner Largent, unraced since being beaten a neck in last year’s Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1), returns to Gulfstream Park to launch his long-awaited comeback in Saturday’s $100,000 Tropical Turf (G3).
The 44th running of the one-mile Tropical Turf for 4-year-olds and up serves as the headliner on an 11-race program that begins at noon.
Largent, a newly turned 5-year-old son of Into Mischief, owns six wins and four seconds in 10 career starts, with Virginia-bred stakes victories in the Edward P. Evans and Bert Allen prior to a two-length upset of the 1 1/8-mile Fort Lauderdale (G2) in 2020, the latter at 16-1 odds in his graded debut.
“He’s a really cool horse that we’re thrilled to have coming back with Twin Creeks. You don’t see too many records like his, where he’s never been worse than second in any of his lifetime races. Multiple stakes winner. Graded-stakes winner. Second by a neck in last year’s Pegasus Turf,” Eclipse managing partner Aron Wellman said. “He’s an awesome horse who’s a model of consistency at a very high level, and those are very hard to come by.”
Largent, named for the Seattle Seahawks’ Hall of Fame wide receiver Steve Largent, forged a short lead entering the stretch of the Pegasus Turf last January, only to be passed late by stablemate Colonel Liam. Colonel Liam would go on to win two more graded-stakes, including the May 1 Turf Classic (G1).
