Arindel Looking Ahead with Grade 3 Winner Mythical

Promising 2YO Colt Strike Set to Make Race Debut Sunday
Saturday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $250,000

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Arindel’s 4-year-old homebred filly Mythical, a Grade 3 winner of five stakes from eight starts, continues to train forwardly at Gulfstream Park as the connections plot out a summer campaign likely to include a return trip to Saratoga.

Trained by Jorge Delgado, Mythical has breezed twice at Gulfstream since registering a popular two-length victory in the six-furlong Any Limit March 14 during the 2025-2026 Championship Meet. It was the fourth win in five tries over her home track, the only loss coming in the Jan. 31 Forward Gal (G3) in her season debut.

Mythical owns wins from 4 ½ furlongs to 1 1/16 miles but Arindel racing manager Brian Cohen feels the daughter of St. Patrick’s Day is better suited to shorter distances. She ran three times last summer at Saratoga, winning the 5 ½-furlong Tremont against boys and 6 ½-furlong Adirondack (G3) and running fifth in the seven-furlong Spinaway.

“She won a couple races at Saratoga and there’s a nice series of sprint races there that suit her. We’ll see how she progresses,” Cohen said. “If she wins going six [furlongs] and then 6 ½, we might try seven again maybe thinking of the Breeders’ Cup. But she’s very, very tough at six furlongs. We’d like to keep her going as long as possible and keep giving her races where she should be best. That’s kind of our plans now.”

Mythical was part of Delgado’s Monmouth Park string from May to October last year before returning to South Florida, a scenario Cohen expects to follow again this year.

“Jorge ships up to Monmouth and that’s where she trained last summer and went over [to Saratoga] for races. It’s not too far, just like when we came back down here,” Cohen said. “She started here and ran well here and she went up there. [We’re] just kind of keeping it the same with her and keeping her happy.”

Just as it did last spring with Mythical, Arindel won Gulfstream’s first race of the year for juveniles Thursday with its homebred filly Boots. On Sunday, it will be represented by both Medieval and Strike in the first open 2-year-old race of the season.

Medieval, trained by Carlos David, is a New York-bred grandson of 2015 Triple Crown champion American Pharoah that is a half-brother to six-figure earner Never Satisfied and Julita, who won four of 15 starts.

Strike is a son of Grade 1-winning freshman sire Roadster bred in Florida by Susan Kahn out of the Wildcat Heir mare Hardcore Cat whose maternal grandmother is Hardcore Candy, the dam of Grade 1-winning millionaire mare Dorth Vader. He will break from the rail against six rivals in the 4 ½-furlong maiden special weight with Samy Camacho up for trainer Jorge Delgado, who also teamed up on Boots.

“I’m really excited about him. I think he’s pretty nice,” Cohen said. “He’s bigger, so I don’t know that he’s necessarily a 4 ½-furlong horse, but he’s showed enough speed in the morning that he’s got a pretty good shot from the inside there.”

Strike fetched $57,000 at the OBS Winter Mixed Sale last January. He worked four times at Aridel’s Ocala farm before having his last three breezes over Gulfstream’s main track including a bullet three furlongs in 35.06 seconds April 10.

“That sale in particular I’ve done well at. That’s definitely the most I’ve gone to at that sale,” Cohen said. “With Roadster being by Quality Road, it felt like he kind of looked that typical Quality Road – tall, long. He was just a handsome colt and he’s growing into himself really well. He’s out of Dorth Vader’s sister so he’s got a good Florida family. There was a lot there to like.”

Before Boots’ victory, Arindel ran second in a pair of juvenile races at Keeneland with the filly Smoke April 8 and Crossfire April 9. Both horses are based in Kentucky with trainer Brendan Walsh.

“Just getting started with the babies, especially the first races like that, if you win a race you’re not running again for a long time so second is nice this time of year,” Cohen said. “They’re generally good purse races and they learn something and they can run again before having to wait for some more winners.”

__Saturday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $250,000 __

Unsolved for 10 consecutive racing days to open the Royal Palm Meet, the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated to reach $250,000 on Saturday’s 11-race program at Gulfstream Park.

First race post time is 12:50 p.m. ET

The popular multi-race wager last returned multiple mandatory payouts of $41,654.20 March 29, closing day of the 2025-2026 Championship Meet. The Royal Palm Meet, which runs through Aug. 30, opened April 2.

Saturday’s Rainbow 6 sequence covers Races 6-11. Race 7 is a maiden special weight going a one-turn mile on the main track that drew a full field of 12 3-year-olds led by 7-2 program favorite Ace From Space. The Stonestreet Stables homebred son of Into Mischief, trained by Brad Cox, exits a seven-furlong debut trip March 7 at Tampa Bay Downs where he ran third as the favorite behind subsequent stakes winner Maykomotion. He is a half-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner and 2018 Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up Good Magic.

Al Loud is a $650,000 son of Quality Road that was well-beaten in his Feb. 28 unveiling at Gulfstream for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher, who also sends out Triple Crown-nominated $250,000 yearling Argent Heir. In his lone start Argent Heir ran second to Albus, who returned to win the Wood Memorial (G2).

Nine older fillies and mares will contest Race 8, an optional claiming allowance scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the turf. Turino will get plenty of support after finishing second by a nose in a one-mile grass event Jan. 24 for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. Multiple stakes-placed Pretty Lavish makes her fourth start for trainer Kent Sweezey after a pair of thirds, one at the course and distance Feb. 21.

The feature comes in Race 10, the $75,000 Mo Green overnight handicap for older fillies and mares going a one-turn mile on the main track. Stakes winner Public Defender drew outermost Post 9 exiting back-to-back Grade 3 stakes attempts. Joseph-trained stablemate Indy Bay is a multiple stakes winner including last summer’s Charles Town Oaks (G2). Runaway Diva has been third or better in 11 of 17 starts with three wins and a second in the 2025 Delaware Oaks (G3).

Fillies and mares 3 and up are scheduled to go 7 ½ furlongs on the grass in the Race 11 finale, a maiden special weight where Achieve, a daughter of 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify, is the 2-1 program favorite to break through in her sixth start and first in nearly a year. Home Wrecker, a $375,000 daughter of Quality Road, races first time for trainer Danny Gargan after running third twice in six prior starts, the most recent last August.

In the Rainbow 6, the jackpot pool is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. On mandatory payout days, the entire pool is disbursed to the bettor or bettors holding tickets with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

NOTES: Jockey Samy Camacho registered a Friday hat trick aboard Other Level ($3.80) in Race 1, Rawayana ($3.40) in Race 5 and Hawk ($9.20) in Race 8 … Jockey Edwin Gonzalez had back-to-back winners on Miss Magical ($4.60) in Race 3 and Calathea ($6) in Race 4.