Sound Machine Gearing Up for Saturday’s Musical Romance
At 0h01, on May 28, 2021 • By GULFSTREAM PARK
e Five Racing Thoroughbreds’ Sound Machine, graded stakes-placed two starts back, will seek to rebound from a recent disappointing performance when she takes on nine rivals in Saturday’s $75,000 Musical Romance at Gulfstream Park.
The Musical Romance, a 6 ½-furlong sprint for Florida-bred fillies and mares, will headline a 12-race program while kicking off a Memorial Day Weekend stakes schedule that will continue Sunday with the $60,000 Key Biscayne, a five-furlong overnight handicap for fillies and mares, and Monday with the $75,000 Soldier’s Dancer, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for Florida-bred 3-year-olds and up.
Sound Machine finished fourth as the even-money favorite in an April 25 optional claiming allowance in which she lacked running room at the top of the stretch.
“I think she’s coming into the race really well. In her last race, she had a troubled trip,” trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said. “The trip probably looked worse than it was because she didn’t seem to fire.”
In her previous start, the daughter of Into Mischief, who was purchased for $500,000 at the 2018 Keeneland September sale, finished second in the March 20 Hurricane Bertie, in which she took the lead in mid-stretch after making a three-wide move coming off the final turn, only to be caught by Pacific Gale.
