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Groupie Doll, Boys at Tosconova highlight Gulfstream feature The four-year-old filly Groupie Doll, an impressive wire-to-wire allowance winner over one mile at Gulfstream Park on December 22, takes on a bigger challenge Friday as she faces five male rivals in Friday's featured 4TH race, a one-mile fourth-level allowance/optional claimer. Among her male challengers is the Grade 1-winning colt Boys at Tosconova. Jockey Calvin Borel gets the return call on Groupie Doll for co-owner and trainer Buff Bradley as she bids for a fifth victory in nine career starts with two seconds. The daughter of Bowman's Band won the Grade 3 Gardenia Stakes at Ellis Park last summer and ran big races to finish second in the $400,000 Charles Town Oaks in September and second by a head in the Grade 2 Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland in late October. "We're pointing her for the (Grade 3) Sabin (Stakes on February 25)," said Bradley Wednesday morning. "We tried to get her in a race for fillies and mares, but the race didn't go. She's doing great. I don't normally like to do this (filly against colts), but she needs to run." Leading Gulfstream jockey Javier Castellano gets aboard Boys at Tosconova for the first time for trainer Rick Dutrow as he bids for a third straight victory on the comeback trail after missing much of the 2011 season. The son of Officer won the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga and finished second to Uncle Mo in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile as a two-year-old. Boys at Tosconova was sidelined for 11 months after the good effort in the Breeders' Cup, returning with a third-place finish as the 1-to-2 favorite in an allowance race at Belmont Park on October 8. He came back to win a 6 1/2-furlong allowance test at Aqueduct on November 11 and a one-mile allowance over the Gulfstream track by a length on December 23.
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