Grand Ave Girl set for Saturday’s Powder Break
At 1h24, on June 25, 2022 • By GULFSTREAM
e Five Racing Thoroughbreds’ Grand Ave Girl is scheduled to make a return to Gulfstream Park’s Tapeta course for Saturday’s $75,000 Powder Break, seeking to run back to a recent impressive stakes performance on turf.
The 4-year-old daughter of Runhappy, who captured the May 8 Monroe by 4 ¼ lengths on turf, is no stranger to Gulfstream’s all-weather surface, over which the David Fawkes trainee graduated by 7 ¼ lengths last fall and went on to build a 1-1-1 record in her three subsequent starts. She has gone on to win two of her next three starts on turf.
Grand Ave Girl ran her first three races on dirt without success, twice for trainer Chad Brown in New York and once for Fawkes, before her graduation on Tapeta.
“She gets across dirt OK, but I definitely think she’s better on [Tapeta] or turf,” Fawkes said. “I think it’s the surface. She gets a good, solid feel of it. She’s also grown up a lot.”
Emisael Jaramillo has the return call aboard Grand Ave Girl, who is scheduled to meet seven other fillies and mares in the mile-and-70-yard Powder Break.
