Asher’s Edge Takes on Nine Rivals in Go Cats Go Handicap
At 0h02, on April 3, 2026 • By Gulfstream Park
Just back from a second lucrative trip to the Middle East in two months with stable star Reef Runner, trainer David Fawkes aims for a prize on his home track when he sends out J J Brevan Stable’s stakes winner Ashers’s Edge in Saturday’s $75,000 Go Cats Go overnight handicap at Gulfstream Park.
The Go Cats Go for 4-year-olds and up, scheduled for five furlongs over the turf course, highlights a 10-race program on opening weekend of the Royal Palm Meet, which runs through Aug. 30. First race post time is 12:50 p.m.
Asher’s Edge ran fourth at odds of 54-1 in the Dec. 20 Janus at Gulfstream, beaten less than two lengths by Reef Runner before his fellow 5-year-old stablemate went on to win the 1351 Turf Sprint (G2) Feb. 14 in Saudi Arabia and run fourth in the Al Quoz Sprint (G1) March 28 in Dubai.
Sent off at 23-1 for his next start in the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint, also five furlongs on the grass, Asher’s Edge ran fourth again by the same 1 ¾ lengths behind subsequent Silks Run winner Litigation, who is entered in Saturday’s Shakertown (G2) at Keeneland. He exits the Feb. 14 Turf Dash at Tampa Bay Downs where he finished worse than fourth for just the second time in 18 starts; the winner, My Boy Prince, is also in the Shakertown.
“The last one, I just put a line through that race,” Fawkes said. “I expect him to show up. He’s training good and he’s doing everything right. Looking at the race, he fits.”
Last fall, Asher’s Edge won the Bob Umphrey Sprint when the five-furlong dash was rained off the grass to Gulfstream’s all-weather Tapeta course, over which he has been third or better in eight of nine starts with three wins. He broke from the far outside post that day, and drew outermost Post 10 in the Go Cats Go with jockey Diego Herrera.
