Dean Delivers paid $3.80 to win as the odds-on choice and won for the first time since taking a first condition, $75,000 optional claiming on Aug. 14 and a first condition, $20,000 optional claiming the race before on July 15, both at Gulfstream.

Since those wins, Dean Delivers had four seconds—three in stakes—and a third and fourth against graded-stakes foes, all at Gulfstream. He was a runner-up to Clapton in the $150,000 FTBOA Gil Campbell Memorial Handicap on Oct. 1 and was second to Sibelius in the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector on Dec. 31. Just prior to the Big Drama, he was a neck short of Weyburn in the $105,000 Sir Shackleton on April 1. In that span he was also third in the Grade 3 Fred Hooper on Jan. 28 and fourth in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Mile on March 4, both won by Endorsed.

The other two runner-up performances in his career came in the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager to stablemate Cajun’s Magic in 2021 and in the Grade 3 Claiborne Farm Swale won by My Prankster in February of last year.

The $63,610 payday in the Big Drama increased his career revenues to $347,860 from four wins, seven seconds and a third in 15 starts.

Dean Delivers is by Stonehedge Farm South stallion Cajun Breeze and his bottom side goes back three generations of broodmares owned by the late Gilbert Campbell and his wife Marilyn Campbell. His first dam is Florida-bred Slick and True, by Yes It’s True out of the Campbell’s stakes-winning Florida-homebred mare Slick Lady—by Florida-bred Unreal Zeal—and winner of the 2001 Columbus Day at Suffolk Downs. His third dam is the Deputy Minister mare Beaty Sark, who Gilbert Campbell purchased for $40,000 out of the 1987 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Summer Yearling Sale.

Slick and True has also produced stakes-placed Zimba Warrior, by Journeyman Stud’s leading sire Khozan; an unraced 2-year-old colt, Hayahlookatme, by Khozan; and an unnamed yearling filly by Gentlemen’s Bet. She was bred to Lone Sailor in 2023. n

Patricia’s Hope LLC’s Florida-bred Uncashed went wire-to-wire while dominating four other 3-year-olds in the $49,000 Golden Circle at Prairie Meadows on May 20, winning by eight-and-a-half lengths in 1:10.13 over six furlongs.

Trained by Larry Rivelli, Uncashed has now won four of five career starts including three consecutive races while winning his first stakes. His only defeat came in his second career start when second to Hand Party in a first level, $62,500 optional claiming going six furlongs at Hawthorne in the final start of his 2-year-old campaign. In his two previous races this year, he won a five-anda-half-furlong non-winners of two allowance by five-and-a-quarter lengths on April 20 and a non-winners of three allowance by nearly three lengths after six furlongs on May 7, both at Hawthorne. He won on debut last year by 11 ½ lengths against special weight maidens at Louisiana Downs going six furlongs on Sept. 13 when trained by Tina Hurley.

Ridden by Orlando Mojica from post three, Uncashed broke best of all and took a short lead out of the six-furlong chute and drew off to a two-length lead into the turn. He stretched that margin to three lengths past the quarter-pole and continued to improve down the stretch to dominate in his stakes debut with Ocean of Storms finishing second, two-and-a-half lengths ahead of Kyandi in third. Arizona Andrew and Call Me Ice Man completed the order of finish. Florida-bred Toddchero was scratched.

Uncashed was sent to the post as the 1-5 favorite and paid $2.60 to win.

Uncashed is by Uncaptured out of Charlie B, by War Chant and the dark bay gelding was bred by Nickstar Farms. He has earned $86,000 in his five career races. Uncashed in the first stakes-winner for Charlie B., who has one other winner from three starters and five foals. She also has an unraced 2-year-old filly, Cool Tricks, by Practical Joke; a yearling filly, Miss Zelenskyy, by West Coast; and a weanling filly by Connect. n

Live Oak Plantation homebred Our Flash Drive won her third consecutive graded-stakes victory as the Florida-bred mare took the Grade 2 Royal North at Woodbine on June 3. In a relentless effort down the stretch of the six-and-a-half furlong turf contest, Our Flash Drive had to wear down 34-1 longshot Forest Drift but, but once clear in the final sixteenth, was never seriously threatened by eventual second-place finisher Sweet Enough. Our Flash Drive won by a length-and-a-quarter as the even money favorite of the US$134,972 Royal North in 1:13.88 on the firm turf.

The 5-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper out of Dyanmotor, by Dynaformer went into the Royal North after winning the Grade 2 Bessarabian at seven furlongs on Nov. 12 and the Grade 3 Whimsical going six furlongs on May 12, both on Woodbine’s synthetic main track. Her last stakes victory on grass was the one-mile De La Rose at Saratoga in August.

In the Royal North, Our Flash Drive and jockey Patrick Husbands raced in second, two lengths behind initial leader Forest Drift before closing to within a half-length into the turn. Our Flash Drive could not get by the stubborn Forest Drift until deep stretch but won with authority once clear.

Second-place finisher Sweet Enough (GB) was a neck faster than Millie Girl in third with Forest Drift another neck back in fourth. Adaay in Asia (GB), Baby No Worries, Imagery, Floridabred Ambassador Luna, Owen’s Tour Guide and Demodog completed the order of finish.

Our Flash Drive paid $4.30 to win as the even-money favorite.

“When [morning line 3-1 second choice Bay Storm] scratched, I said, ‘You know what? Get in the clear and keep your eyes on the horse on the lead,’” Husbands said. “And [Forest Drift] on the lead, she was doing it so easy. Her ears were pricked, and she was doing it so easy. I said, ‘I’ve got to go after this filly now.’ She [Our Flash Drive] is a class horse and when you go into these races, you have to ride them with confidence.”

Trained by Mark Casse, Our Flash Drive increased her career earnings to $601,536 from seven wins, three seconds and a third in 16 starts. She also counts the Grade 3 Selene on synthetic and the Grade 3 Ontario Collen on turf, both at Woodbine in 2021, among her six career stakes victories. She was the FTBOA Champion Older Mare and Champion Female Turf Horse of 2022. n

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