Let’s Go Stable and Three Chimneys Farm’s newly-turned 3-year-old Made You Look began 2017 on a high note with a very sharp-looking performance in Saturday’s $100,000 Dania Beach S. (G3) over the Gulfstream Park turf course.
The son of More Than Ready, who won the With Anticipation S. (G2) last year at Saratoga, is now 3-1-0 in five starts and has banked $250,140.
Javier Castellano had Made You Look in midpack in the two path through the first five furlongs of the 7 1/2-furlong trip. With a wall of horses in front of him coming to the stretch, Castellano swung Made You Look four-wide and quickly swept to the front before drawing off in style to win by 2 1/2-lengths in 1:29.98 on the firm turf.
“The way he did it, I was very impressed,” Castellano said. “He was covered up a little bit. There was a lot of speed in the race and I kept him inside on the rail. The way he did it was very professional and the way he exploded the last part of it was very impressive. I angled out a little bit because I saw those two horses in front start to back up a little bit, so I tried find some room to split horses. I tried to use my best judgment and put him outside to let him run and when I asked him, he took off.”
The winner was bred in Kentucky by the Robert and Beverly Lewis Trust, out of the Unbridled’s Song mare Night and Day, and was a $360,000 purchase by his owners from the Denali Stud consignment to the 2015 Keeneland September yearling sale.
