{"id":385966,"date":"2025-08-30T23:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385966\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T23:36:14","slug":"squire-produces-bullet-work-for-next-saturdays-fss-dr-fager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/385966\/","title":{"rendered":"Squire Produces \u2018Bullet\u2019 Work for Next Saturday\u2019s FSS Dr. Fager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE (Edited)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HALLANDALE BEACH, FL\u2014<\/strong>Amy Dunne and trainer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=T&amp;eID=195754&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Biancone\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=Horse&amp;refno=11315219&amp;registry=T&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squire<\/a> produced a bullet workout Saturday at Palm Meadows Training Center in preparation for a scheduled start in next Saturday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/static\/entry\/GP090625USA-EQB.html#RACE10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$100,000 Dr. Fager<\/a>, the six-furlong first leg of the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders\u2019 and Owners\u2019 Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/florida-sire-stakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Sire Stakes<\/a> for 2-year-olds sired by accredited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/FSS-Stallions-2018-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida stallions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/florida-sire-stakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-24521 size-fusion-600\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/47707_FSS_FirstLeg_banner_25WTW-600x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"239\"  data- data-orig-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The son of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/stallion-spotlight-leinster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pleasant Acres Stallions\u2019 freshman sire Leinster<\/a> breezed three furlongs in :35.70, the fastest of 22 workouts at the distance recorded at Gulfstream Park\u2019s satellite training facility in Palm Beach County. Jockey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=J&amp;eID=167815&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Ocasio<\/a> was aboard for the sixth in a series of workouts following Squire\u2019s second-place finish in the $100,000 Royal Palm Juvenile May 10 at Gulfstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did very well,\u201d Biancone said. \u201cHe\u2019s in good form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Squire, who rallied from off the pace to win his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/florida-bred-squire-takes-juvenile-maiden-special-weight-at-gulfstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 18 debut at four-and-a-half furlongs<\/a>, set the pace in the mile Royal Palm Juvenile on turf before settling for second, a length-and-a-half behind Sandal\u2019s Song, who went on to finish third in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes June 19 at Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Squire will make his return to action as a first-time gelding. A field of eight were entered for the Dr. Fager.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Squire is out of Saudi Chroma, by Lucky Pulpit and was bred in Florida by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/entries-results#searchby=breeder&amp;search=dunne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy E.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/ftboa-member-spotlight-ciaran-dunne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ciaran G. Dunne<\/a>. He has $71,560 in earnings from his two races.<\/p>\n<p>The Dr. Fager will co-headline next Saturday\u2019s card with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/static\/entry\/GP090625USA-EQB.html#RACE8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$100,000 Desert Vixen<\/a>, the six-furlong first leg of the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes for juvenile fillies sired by accredited Florida stallions.<\/p>\n<p>Biancone-trained Florida-bred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=Horse&amp;refno=11314971&amp;registry=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lennilu<\/a>, who won her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/lennilu-takes-keeneland-maiden-special-weight-as-first-winner-for-leinster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6 debut<\/a> at Keeneland before capturing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/florida-bred-lennilu-earns-invitation-to-royal-ascot-with-resounding-score-in-royal-palm-juvenile-fillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$100,000 Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies<\/a> at Gulfstream before finishing third in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/florida-bred-lennilu-third-in-group-2-queen-mary-at-royal-ascot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Mary (G2)<\/a> June 18 at Royal Ascot, will run in either the Desert Vixen or the $1 million Untapable on turf at Kentucky Downs Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lennilu is by Leinster out of Lulu\u2019s Pom Pom, by Pomeroy and was bred in Florida by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/entries-results#searchby=breeder&amp;search=barbazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Helen and Joseph Barbazon<\/a>. She has earned $103,289 in her three starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Return to the August 30 issue of\u00a0Wire to Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE (Edited) HALLANDALE BEACH, FL\u2014Amy Dunne and trainer Patrick Biancone\u2019s Squire produced a bullet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-385966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115120346581645329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}