Thursday's Racing Insights: Champion Just F Y I Returns in Salty Optional Claimer at Gulfstream

Just F Y I | Benoit

6th-GP, $98K, OC 75k/C, 4yo/up, f/m, 1m, 3:29 p.m. ET.

Just F Y I (Justify), champion 2-year-old filly of 2023, kicks off her 4-year-old campaign in this stakes-quality field. The GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and GI Kentucky Oaks runner-up was last seen finishing a well-beaten sixth in the GI Acorn S. at Saratoga June 7.

“We need to get started,” Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said. “She's been away a long time and we decided to try an allowance race, although it's a very tough allowance race. It could be a stake, really.”

The field of six also includes GII George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan S. winner Gun Song (Gun Runner), narrow runner-up to Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) in last fall's GI Cotillion S. at Parx.

Trainer Jorge Delgado said that the rail-drawn 2024 GI Alabama S. winner Power Squeeze (Union Rags) would be scratched.

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