Por Que No Set for Stakes Debut in Saturday’s Honey Ryder
At 1h24, on May 1, 2021 • By GULFSTREAM PARK
Fano Racing’s Por Que No is scheduled to make her stakes debut in Saturday’s $75,000 Honey Ryder at Gulfstream Park with a solid foundation that includes four straight victories.
The daughter of Wicked Strong will take on eight other Championship Meet-caliber 3-year-old fillies in the Honey Ryder, a 1 1/16-mile stakes on turf that will co-headline Saturday’s program with the $75,000 Big Drama, a seven-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up.
Por Que No was slow to develop, but the Kentucky-bred filly has certainly made up for lost time for trainer Kent Sweezey.
“We bought three horses at the 2-year-old sales for the owners last year. We bought a New York-bred, and we won a New York-bred race. We bought a New Jersey-bred, and we won a maiden special weight for New Jersey-breds,” Sweezey said. “And we had this filly. I kept telling the owners, ‘You guys bought three. Two of them are real early. Let me just bide my time with this filly.’”
Por Que No, who was purchased for $25,000 at the 2020 OBS April sale for 3-year-olds in training, started to come around upon arriving at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park’s satellite training facility in Palm Beach County, where she began showing promise while training on turf.
