Calder's Festival of the Sun features five stakes

Calder will present a stakes-filled afternoon of racing as part of the 21st

annual Festival of the Sun on Saturday that will feature the conclusion of the

lucrative Florida Stallion Stakes series, with both the $300,000

In Reality

Division and its juvenile filly counterpart, the $300,000

My Dear

Girl Division, to be run over 1 1/16 miles on the main track.

A field of 10 colts and geldings is scheduled to contest the In Reality with

opening-leg winner Two T's at Two B and surprise second-leg winner D'nied

Permission both returning for the rich final.

Conditioned by Kathleen O'Connell, Two T's at Two B won the first three races

of his career by a combined 16 1/4 lengths, adding a 5 1/4-length victory in the

$100,000 Frank Gomez Memorial Stakes to his 3 3/4-length Stallion Stakes triumph

in the $75,000 Dr. Fager Division. In his most recent start, the son of

Untuttable was beaten two lengths when third as the 2-5 favorite in the $125,000

Affirmed Division where he fell victim to the late run of D'nied Permission.

A son of D'wildcat, D'nied Permission has made five appearances during his

young career, visiting the winner's circle twice while finishing second or

better on four occasions. Following his Affirmed triumph, the Joe Calascibetta

trainee returned for the $100,000 Foolish Pleasure Stakes where he could do no

better than fourth.

Two T's at Two B will start from post 6 in the In Reality with Eduardo Nunez

to ride, while D'nied Permission has been assigned post 9 and will be piloted by

Luis Saez.

Joshua's Comprise, a three-time stakes-placed colt that was beaten a neck

when second to D'nied Permission in the Affirmed and was runner-up to Two T's at

Two B in the Frank Gomez Memorial, returns for the In Reality off a

maiden-breaking win against entry-level allowance rivals. He will break from

post 7 with Carlos Olivero. Trainer Eddie Plesa will saddle two horses in the In

Reality, Dr. Fager runner-up Dixie High and recent Monmouth Park maiden winner

Speak Logistics. Paco Lopez has the mount on Dixie High and Angel Serpa will be

aboard Speak Logistics.

The My Dear Girl Division of the Florida Stallion Stakes drew a field of nine

that includes second-leg heroine Putyourdreamsaway and first-leg upset winner

Candy Coded Kisses.

Trained by Bill Kaplan, Putyourdreamsaway broke her maiden by 5 1/4 lengths

at first asking in mid-July and followed that performance with a second-place

run in the $75,000 Desert Vixen Division before bouncing back from that defeat

with a 7 1/2-length romp in the Susan's Girl Division. The daughter of Put It

Back will start from post 6 with Juan Leyva.

When Putyourdreamsaway was bested in the Desert Vixen, it came at the hands

of Candy Coded Kisses, who upset the field at odds of 24-1. The daughter of

Omega Code, trained by DeSouza, has since returned to run second in the Susan's

Girl before finishing a disappointing eighth in the $100,000 Cassidy Stakes.

Candy Coded Kisses break from post 5 beneath Orlando Bocachica.

While the Florida Stallion Stakes finals are the showcase pieces of the

Festival of the Sun puzzle, the 12-race card will also feature three additional

stakes led by the Grade 3, $100,000

Spend A

Buck Handicap which drew a solid field of eight led by two-time 2010

Stallion Stakes hero Gourmet Dinner, who returns to Calder for the first time

since his second-place finish in that year's In Reality.

Trained by David Braddy, Gourmet Dinner made the first four starts of his

career at Calder, prevailing three times prior to his In Reality defeat, which

he followed with a win in the Grade 3 Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs. The son of

Trippi exits a seventh in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga, and earlier

this year the four-year-old prevailed in the $100,000 Majestic Light Stakes at

Monmouth Park. Gourmet Dinner will be reunited with rider Sebastian Madrid and

start from post 2.

Sophomore colt Csaba, a four-time winner in south Florida that was most

recently seventh in the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby, returns to Calder for the

Spend A Buck where he is scheduled to meet older horses for just the second time

in his career. The Phil Gleaves trainee was last seen locally as the 8

1/4-length winner of the $75,000 El Kaiser Stakes in mid-July before being sent

north for a three-race sojourn that included a second in the Grade 2 National

Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes where he was beaten an unlucky nose.

Csaba drew post 8 and will be ridden by Manoel Cruz.

Larry Fugate's three-time stakes winner Cash Rules will start from post 3 for

jockey Luis Saez and trainer Dave Fawkes. Winner of the Darn That Alarm and Band

Is Passing Stakes in each of his last two starts, the son of Peace Rules also

prevailed in the Sumter Stakes in early May and was runner-up in both the

Memorial Day Handicap and the Primal Stakes.

Completing the Spend a Buck field is Ducduc, Decisive Moment, Two Is to Many,

Flatter This and Fair Whit.

A pair of sophomore turf stakes will also be contested as part of the

Festival of the Sun program with the both the $75,000

Tropical Park Derby and the $75,000

Frances

A. Genter, restricted to fillies, scheduled for the local lawn.

Mucho Mas Macho and Empire Builder, separated by a neck when last seen as the

top-two finishers in the $75,000 Needles Stakes, will meet again when amongst

the 11 horses entered for the Tropical Park Derby. Trained by Henry Collazo,

Mucho Mas Macho has visited the winner's circle following each of his last two

starts, adding an allowance victory in mid-August to his recent Needles triumph.

The son of Macho Uno has prevailed in three of his last four appearances over

the Calder turf, with his lone defeat during that span a troubled fourth where

he was beaten just a neck for everything.

Empire Builder is a three-time stakes winner at Calder this year, adding main

track victories in the $55,000 American Dreamer Stakes and the $55,000 Mambo

Meister Stakes to his turf triumph in the $75,000 Naked Greed. The son of

Kitten's Joy has prevailed in three of his four starts over the Calder grass.

Scheduled to ship to south Florida for the Tropical Park Derby is Burn the

Mortgage, a turf allowance winner at Saratoga in his last start for trainer

Wayne Catalano. The son of Kitten's Joy has crossed the wire first in three of

his last four starts, although the colt was disqualified from a mid-May

Churchill Downs victory for causing interference with another rival.

Other notables in the Tropical Park Derby field include turf-stakes winner

Musical Flair and recent allowance winner Harrison Bay.

Csaba was cross-entered in both the Tropical Park Derby and the Spend A Buck,

but is expected to consider a run in the Tropical Park Derby only if the race is

moved from the turf to the main track.

A winner of more than $398,000 during her career, Awesome Belle looks to be

the leading lady in the Frances A. Genter off three successive stakes scores,

two of which came over the Calder turf.

Trained by Stanley Gold, Awesome Belle began her current streak with a main

track triumph in the $75,000 Three Ring Stakes and has since returned with

grassy victories in the $75,000 Crystal Rail Stakes and most recently the

$75,000 Judy's Red Shoes. The homebred daughter of Awesome of Course was a 2011

Stallion Stakes heroine, winning that year's running of the My Dear Girl.

Among the eight fillies looking to take down Awesome Belle in the Frances A.

Genter is lightly-raced Blues and Silvers, three-time stakes winner but

currently slumping Frolic's Revenge, and Judy's Red Shoes runner-up Jazz.

Calder will offer an All-Stakes Pick Five, with a base wager of 50-cents and

an industry-low takeout of 12-percent, that will encompass the stakes portion of

the Festival of the Sun program.

In addition to hosting a full afternoon of live racing as part of the 21st

annual Festival of the Sun, Calder will hold ceremonies throughout the day in

conjunction with Florida TRAC (Thoroughbred Retirement and Adoptive Care),

Horses and the Handicapped of South Florida, the Broward Sheriff's Mounted Unit,

and Hobbs Equestrian to honor retired Thoroughbred race horses now serving the

community in their second careers.

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