Thriving Ocean Club Favored for Saturday’s G3 Suwannee River
At 0h03, on December 19, 2024 • By Gulfstream
Glen Hill Farm’s Ocean Club is scheduled to seek back-to-back graded-stakes successes in Saturday’s $165,000 Suwanee River (G3) at Gulfstream Park, where the 4-year-old daughter of Curlin will return from a three-month freshening since her triumph in the Noble Damsel (G3) at Aqueduct.
The Suwannee River will be featured on Saturday’s 11-race Pegasus World Cup Preview Day program with five stakes, including the $215,000 Fort Lauderdale (G2) and the $165,000 Harlan’s Holiday (G3). The mile turf stakes for fillies and mares will serve as a prep for the $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G2) at Gulfstream Jan. 25.
Ocean Club remained in training at her owner/breeder’s Ocala, FL farm before returning to trainer Jack Sisterson’s stable at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park’s satellite training facility in Palm Beach Country, where she breezed twice on turf in preparation for the Suwanee River.
“They always seem to thrive when they go to the farm for a little break,” Sisterson said.
Ocean Club, who has been installed as the 4-1 morning-line favorite in a well-match field of 12 assembled for the 78th running of the Suwannee River, scored her first graded-stakes victory after showing the way and holding on by a head under Ricardo Santana Jr.
