SSM Classic

                              1/28/12 Gulfstream Park

                          Four-Year-Olds & Up FL Breds

                                  1 1/8 Over the Dirt

                                    Purse: $400.000

Saturday Gulfstream Park will host the 9th running of the $400.000

SSM Classic, which drew a field of five veterans, three of whom ran

in this 1 1/8 race last year.

Allfusionallthetime trained by Eastern Equine has a strong connection

to the SSM Classic, as he was the runner up in this race one year ago,

and in 2008, his sire Fusion won this race. He looks like he has a great

shot to follow in his dad's hoof prints as he makes his 20th career stakes

start here, and has five stakes wins, four of them coming in graded stakes.

Allfusionallthetime is coming off of an almost three month layoff, having

run last in the Grade I BC Classic in November, where he finished 4th. He

could be very dangerous here, coming in fresh, and he has posted some

really sharp works of late.

Another horse with a big chance in the SSM Classic is TwinTowersRacing

trainee Siberian Shooter. He too has four graded stakes wins, and has won

his last two stakes races, the most recent being the Grade I BC Dirt Mile on

11/5/11. While Siberian Shooter has struggled with distance in some of his

starts, he does have a graded stakes win at this distance that came in the 

Grade II Suburban Handicap last summer. He starts from post 1 Saturday,

which as we have seen lately has been a problem many horses; but in this

case could be a benefit to Siberian Shooter if it will slow him down early.

Condottiere trained by Maverick Racing finished 5th in the SSM Classic last

year at age four, and is back to give this race another go Saturday. He has

two stakes wins, including his last start back on 11/12/11, when he won the

$150.000 Rose Handicap for FL State Breds, which was run at this distance

over the Calder dirt.

Larry Lehew, who was 3rd in this race in 2011 is also back, and this is going

to be the now six-year-old gelding's 32nd career start. He is sent out by trainer

First Flight Stables, and has one career stakes race, which came in December

of 2010 at age four, when he won the Grade III Hooper Handicap, run at 1 1/8

over the dirt.

The youngest horse in the field is four-year-old Crazy Gnarls who is trained

by Dynark Stables. This will be his 7th stakes race, and he is looking for his

first stakes win Saturday. He has two 2nd place finishes in ungraded stakes,

and is coming off of a win seventeen days ago here at Gulfstream, in a one

mile dirt $80.000 Optional Claiming race for FL State Breds.

The Field:

1   Siberian Shooter: Trained by TwinTowersRacing, this son of

     Siberian Hope is a five-year-old horse, and he makes his 11th

     stakes start Saturday, and has four stakes wins, all of them

     graded.

     Last ran 12/26/11 at FG, in a $53.000 Allowance, run at one

     mile and seventy yards on dirt. Siberian Shooter finished in

     2nd in that race, and looked like distance was a bit long as

     he was losing a bit of ground near the end. Prior to that, he

     won the 2011 Grade I BC Dirt Mile race, and three races

     back, won the Grade II Kelso, also at one mile over the dirt

     and he earned a career high 104 speed figure in the race.

    -Best races lately have been at one mile, and has had some

     issued in past starts with distance, where he tires before the

     wire. However, he won the Grade II Suburban Handicap last

     July at 1 1/8, and in this field, think he should do really well.

2   Crazy Gnarls: Trained by Dynark Stables, this four-year-old

     colt by Gfw 85 is starting in his 7th stakes race Saturday, and

     is looking for his first career stakes win.

     Coming off of a win last time out, seventeen days ago here at

     Gulfstream, when Crazy Gnarls won a one mile dirt $80.000

     Optional Claiming race for State Breds. Prior to that, he won

     a $62.500 Optional Claiming race, also here at GP on 12/16/11

     for FL Breds, and that race was at this distance on dirt. Has

     two second place stakes finishes, both which were run at this

     1 1/8 distance on dirt, and in both he was tiring just before the

     wire and losing ground.

    -Has won his last two races in a row, including one at this 1 1/8

     distance, but both wins came in State Bred Optional Claiming

     races with small fields of just four horses. In his two most recent

     stakes, this distance proved to be a bit long for Crazy Gnarls, so

     this could be a tough spot for him as he looks for his first stakes

     victory.

3   Allfusionallthetime: Trained by Eastern Equine, this five-year-old

     horse is by Fusion, who won this race in 2008. Was runner up in

     this race last year; he makes his amazing 20th stakes start here

     Saturday, and has five stakes wins, four of them graded.

     Has had an almost three month vacation, after having last run on

     11/5/11 in the Grade I BC Classic, where Allfusionallthetime was

     4th in the 1 1/4 race over the Churchill Downs dirt. Two starts back,

     on 9/3/11, he was 2nd in the Grade I Woodward at this distance,

     and earned a whopping career best 107 speed figure. Prior to the

     Woodward, he won three graded stakes in a row from March to

     July of 2011, and one of those came in the Grade II NO Handicap

     run over the Fair Grounds dirt at this 1 1/8 distance.

    -Has had a nice break after his run in the BC Classic, and recent

     works have been sharp, making Allfusionallthetime look like he is

     going to be tough one to beat Saturday. He was 2nd in this race

     in 2011, and could be poised to follow his sire Fusion's hoof prints

     by winning the 2012 SSM Classic.

4   Condottiere: Trained by Maverick Racing, this five-year-old horse

     by BomBayMedic will be making his 9th start in stakes company

     Saturday, and has two stakes wins, one of them graded and both

     at this  distance. He was 5th last year in the 2011 SSM Classic.

     Coming into this race after winning his last start, on 11/12/11 in

     the $150.000 Rose Handicap, run at this distance on the dirt at

     Calder. Condottiere won that race by an impressive four lengths

     and finished the race in a sharp final time of 1:47.91. His graded

     stakes win was also at this 1 1/8 distance on dirt, when he won

     the Grade III BC Derby over a track listed as good at HST in

     September of 2010 at age three.

    -Won a stakes race last in his start, and both career stakes wins

     were on dirt at the SSM Classic distance. Has had 2 1/2 month

     layoff since his $150.000 Rose Handicap win last November, and

     though his works have been a bit slow lately, he could run very

     well here in his five-year-old debut. Watch him closely Saturday.

5   Larry Lehew: Trained by First Flight Stables, this six-year-old

     gelding by Pounds of Sin finished 3rd in the 2011 SSM Classic.

     This will be his 12th stakes start, and he has one stakes win,

     which came in 2010 as a four-year-old, in the Grade III Hopper

     Handicap at this 1 1/8 distance over dirt.

     Since his stakes win back in December of 2010,  Larry Lehew

     has struggled, only finishing in the money in two of seven starts,

     one of those coming in his most recent start on 11/26/11, when 

     he finished 3rd 11/26/11 in a 1 1/16 dirt $34.500 Allowance race

     at Calder Race Course. His only other in the money finish of 2011

     was in this race one year ago, where he was 3rd behind the winner

     Madhouse, and 2nd place Allfusionallthetime, the 3 horse in this

     race Saturday.

    -This will be the 32nd lifetime start for Larry Lehew, and his recent

     works have been a bit slower than what they were when he was

     younger. In 2011, his speed figures on average we lower than they

     had been in 2010, and with only hitting the board three times last

     year, you have to wonder if the six-year-old is nearing the end of

     his career. Think this could be a tough spot for him Saturday, but

     he gets the advantage of breaking from the outside 5 post.

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