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Chantal Sutherland Says:

Quality Road returns to Gulfstream Park, over which he won the Grade 1 Florida Derby earlier in 2009. He will go postward as the heavy favorite in the featured Grade 3 $100,000 Hals Hope Stakes. The Grade 3, one-mile Hals Hope attracted a field of nine older handicap horses. He will have to beat his stablemate Harlem Rocker who has run his best races over Aqueduct, including the Grade 1 Cigar Mile, but he will he need to show that he can run just as impressively at Gulfstream, where Quality Road is a proven winner. Spin Master is worth a look as a Gulfstream specialist, boasting two 100 Beyer speed figures over this course, and has an outside chance should the top two not fire. Le Grand Cru is coming off of two consecutive Grade 3 wins in the Bold Ruler at Aqueduct and the Kelso at Belmont. You and I Forevers most recent form is not particularly impressive, and he will have to return to his 2008 form to have any shot. Colonial Causeway, Helsinki, and Congressional Page round out the field.