The $215,000, Grade 2 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes Saturday at Gulfstream Park drew a field of nine turf runners, six of them stakes winners on grass. Leading the group in terms of career earnings is Grand Sonata with a shade over $2 million, who won the Grade 2 FanDuel TV Kentucky Turf Cup Stakes this past summer and who drops in class after an 11th-place finish in the Grade 1 Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf last month.
Major Dude will go over the one million mark in earnings if he wins, having banked $956,257 to date while winning six of 17 races. He won his most recent race in October. Emmanuel has won five of 15 career turf races including the Grade 3 Canadian Turf Stakes in March over Gulfstream’s course but is winless in six races since then. Win for the Money won the Grade 1 Rogers Woodbine Mile Stakes one race before last to bring his earnings to $814,997 and fits nicely after a 10th-place finish last month in the Grade 1 FanDuel…
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