Do Gooder Back on Gulfstream Turf for Frolic’s Revenge

5YO Mare Chasing Third Course Win in Overnight Handicap

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Looking for a place to run her hard-knocking mare Do Gooder, a 5-year-old that has faced Grade 1 and Grade 2 competition on both turf and dirt, trainer Jena Antonucci landed in a familiar – and previously successful – spot.

Copper Thoroughbreds’ Do Gooder returns to the grass at Gulfstream Park for Sunday’s $70,000 Frolic’s Revenge, an overnight handicap for fillies and mares 3 and up scheduled at a two-turn mile on the grass. Post time for the first of nine races is 12:20 p.m.

Do Gooder, co-bred by owner Suzanne Sackleh, has won two of her three career tries on the Gulfstream turf, both as a 3-year-old. The daughter of Good Samaritan graduated second time out in a one-mile maiden special weight over a sloppy Gulfstream main track in February 2024.

“She’s a tough mare to place being basically out of conditions and, really, I’m focusing on trying to get black type for the breeder, who is also the owner,” Antonucci said. “She loves it there and I think she’ll run very well coming back to a track where she’s been very successful at.”

Do Gooder’s most recent try on the Gulfstream turf came last December, when she finished fourth behind Crevalle d’Oro after encountering early trouble in the one-mile Suwannee River. Crevalle d’Oro ran second in the $500,000 Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf (G2) in her subsequent start.

Her latest effort came in the July 26 Honorable Miss (G2) sprinting six furlongs on the dirt at Saratoga, where she was never in contention after getting away poorly and racing wide. It was her first try on the main track after 12 consecutive turf races.

“She hasn’t disgraced herself. She’s an honest, honest mare,” Antonucci said. “We did the dirt question because she was so talented on it previously just to see if it would give her some more opportunities later in her career. Now we’re bringing her back to the turf where she’s had success.”

Jose Morelos has the riding assignment on Do Gooder, rated at 6-1 on the morning line, from outermost Post 7. Morelos was up for both of her Gulfstream grass wins last spring, each coming in front-running fashion, a tool she has been unable to utilize fully going back to her latest win in a 6 ½-furlong turf sprint last August at Kentucky Downs.

“Some of it in her latest races has obviously been a little bit the company she’s faced and some of the dynamics of what we were asking of her, as well. Last time she stumbled at the break, and it’s hard in that short of a race to have that happen,” Antonucci said. “The speed’s still there.”

Since arriving from New York, Do Gooder has had one timed breeze over Gulfstream’s main track, going a half-mile in 47.43 seconds Aug. 5.

“She’s in great shape,” Antonucci said. “We’re pleased with how she’s doing.”

Carrie Brogden and Circle N Thoroughbreds’ Turino (Post 6, Rasheed Hughes, 9-5) chases a third straight win and second in a row at the course and distance following a rallying neck triumph in Gulfstream’s May 16 Monroe. The 5-year-old mare was entered in the 1 1/16-mile Powder Break July 11 but scratched when the race was rained off the grass to the all-weather Tapeta course.

Stablemates Little Jamie and Hello Hello Hello are also entered. J and J Stables’ Little Jamie (Post 4, Micah Husbands, 7-2) made her turf debut in the Monroe, finishing third by 1 ¼ lengths in her first start in 9 ½ months. Brogden and Ryan Fubini’s Hello Hello Hello (Post 1, Edwin Gonzalez, 15-1) was most recently fourth in the Powder Break.

Palm Beach Racing V’s Florida-bred Miss Mary Nell (Post 5, Leonel Reyes, 5-2) will try grass again for the first time since her neck loss in the Monroe after running seventh in the Powder Break and fourth in the 5 ½-furlong Little Miss Holly overnight handicap June 14, also on Tapeta. The 4-year-old filly was a 24-1 upset winner over multiple graded-stakes winner Warming in the South Beach overnight handicap going a mile and 70 yards on Tapeta Jan. 24.

Also entered are Fantasy Performer (Post 2, Miguel Vasquez, 8-1), winner of the Jan. 1 Key West overnight handicap on Tapeta that ran second in the Powder Break; and Lets Go Koko (Post 3, Diego Herrera, 8-1), a nine-time career winner including the 2025 Powder Break.

Bred and owned by Stride Rite Racing Stable and trained throughout her career by the late Milton Wolfson, Frolic’s Revenge won eight of 29 career starts – 27 of them coming in South Florida. Five of her victories came in stakes including the 2011 Ginger Brew at Gulfstream and the Calder Oaks, Rowdy Gal and Sweettrickydancer in successive starts in 2012.