It has been a dream year for trainers Saffie Joseph Jr. and
Jorge Delgado, both of whom followed a familiar path to find success in the
U.S. Each based at Gulfstream Park, they are bringing back their Grade
1-winning stable stars for a chance to end 2024 on a winning note.

Soul of an Angel, whose 19-1 upset of the Filly & Mare
Sprint last month at Del Mar gave Joseph his first Breeders’ Cup victory, and
3-year-old Alabama (G1) heroine Power Squeeze, the benefactor of Delgado’s
first Grade 1 triumph, headline Thursday’s $140,000 Rampart Stakes.

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The 46th running of the one-mile Rampart for fillies and
mares 3 and up is the first of two stakes on a 10-race, day-after-Christmas
program along with the $140,000 Via Borghese for fillies and mares 3 and up
scheduled for 1 3/8 miles on the grass. The first post is at 12:20 p.m. EST.
The Rampart is scheduled to go at 3:10 p.m.

A third-generation horseman who has won 11 consecutive
training titles at Gulfstream including three straight championship-meet crowns,
Joseph came to the U.S. in 2011 from Barbados, where at age 22 he became the
youngest trainer to sweep its Triple Crown.

Joseph, who turns 38 Jan. 5, earned his biggest win yet when
Soul of an Angel came from the clouds to capture the seven-furlong Filly &
Mare Sprint by a half-length. The 5-year-old mare campaigned by C2 Racing
Stable, Agave Racing Stable and Ken Reimer earned her place in the Breeders’
Cup through her victory in Gulfstream’s Sept. 21 Princess Rooney Invitational
(G3).

“For sure it’s a dream come true,” Joseph said. “She gave us
our first Breeders’ Cup win. It was quite spectacular, especially for how far
back she came from. When you watch the replay over, you still kind of don’t
believe it’s going to happen. As a kid growing up, you dream about winning
Breeders’ Cup races, and for it to finally become a reality, it was a
blessing.”

Soul of an Angel, a winner of six races and $1,192,675 from
41 starts, got a well-deserved break after returning from California to
Gulfstream, where she got back on the work tab with a three-furlong move in
38.18 seconds Monday. She had another half-mile breeze Sunday in 53.71 seconds.

Joseph is using the Rampart as a possible springboard to the
$20 million Saudi Cup (G1) on Feb. 22, which is run at 1 1/8 miles but
contested around one turn at King Abdulaziz Racecourse. Soul of an Angel, sixth
in the 2022 Rampart for former owner Rodney Lundock and trainer Joseph
Catanese, drew outermost post 8. Jockey Drayden Van Dyke, who was up for each
of the last two wins, has the ride.

“If we wanted to go to Saudi, this race is mainly to keep
that on the table,” Joseph said. “It looks like a good spot. If she fires a
good race, she should be very competitive. She should be tough to beat.”

Joseph also entered 5-year-old, multiple stakes winner
Intrepid Daydream, who ran in the Dec. 21 Sugar Swirl, and maiden 3-year-old
Save Time, who has four seconds and a third in seven starts for trainer Chad
Brown.

“She was a private purchase, and she’s trained very well,”
Joseph said. “She’s a maiden, and it’s kind of unusual to put that kind of
horse in a stake, but even if she picks up stakes placing it will enhance her
value. She has run some good races.”

Delgado, 34, followed his father into training in Venezuela,
never saddling a horse there. Then he followed his uncle, Kentucky Derby
(G1)-winning trainer Gustavo Delgado, to the U.S. in 2013. He won nine graded stakes
including the Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) and Delaware Oaks (G3) with Power
Squeeze before her breakthrough victory in the 1 1/4-mile Alabama at Saratoga.

“It was unreal. It was one of those things that you dream of
all your life since you are a child and teenager. You see the same people that
you used to follow and admire, and you get to compete against them,” Delgado
said. “This filly in the Gulfstream Oaks, she beat Ways and Means. In the
Delaware Oaks she beat a good Juddmonte horse (Sidamara). At Saratoga she beat
Candied and Todd Pletcher.

“She made me proud every time she went out there. Every day
we’re more in love with her. She’s a very sweet filly to be around and the most
beautiful filly I’ve ever seen in my life. She’s definitely our queen. We’re
happy to see her back. She’s very healthy, and we’re looking forward to it.”

Power Squeeze, owned by Lea Farms, will be making her first
start since finishing seventh in the 1 1/16-mile Cotillion (G1) on Sept. 21 at
Parx. She lost to Thorpedo Anna, the top 3-year-old filly in the country and a
candidate for horse of the year who most recently won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

The championship races at Del Mar were not an option for
Power Squeeze, who also ran behind Thorpedo Anna when she wound up sixth in the
Kentucky Oaks (G1) and third in the Acorn (G1).

“The plan was whether she won or finished last in the
Cotillion to give her a break. She was never going to the Breeders’ Cup. That
wasn’t part of the discussion. She had a hard year last year. She basically ran
every other month, and she performed really well,” Delgado said. “I’m very
happy with the way she’s been training. I think the layoff has been really good
for her. She feels refreshed, and she’s gained weight, and she’s training every
day better.

“We are very excited to see her back in the races. The post
position is not ideal, but it won’t be an excuse. She’s training good enough to
win the race.”

David Egan was named to ride Power Squeeze for the first
time, breaking from post 2. It will be her first time going one mile since
winning Gulfstream’s Cash Run on New Year’s Day.

“I know the filly on her good day, she can beat anybody,”
Delgado said. “We’re hoping she can have a good day.”

Delgado also entered Unsolved Mystery, who is owned by California
Racing Partners, Ciaglia Racing and Seacoast Racing. She has one win, one
second and a sixth behind Soul of an Angel in the Princess Rooney in three
starts for him.

“The race came up a little tougher than it was supposed to,
and we want to give the best chance to each horse. It is a pretty nice race,”
Delgado said. “That’s why I do this. I like the competition. I like to compete
at a high level, and every time we get a chance to compete at the high level,
we try to win. That’s what makes me wake up every day.”

Royalight Racing’s 4-year-old filly Charlie’s Wish, a stakes
winner on turf, dirt and Tapeta at Gulfstream at one and two turns; Sonata
Stable’s twice stakes-placed Dazzling Move; and Richard Perkins’s homebred
Windy Walk, a winner of three straight, complete the field.

Post	Silks	Horse / Sire	Rating	Trainer / Jockey	Last start / Next start	Status
1		Save Time Into Mischief	0.00	Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. Edgard J. Zayas	2nd, KEE MSW (10/24/2024-R3) 2024 Rampart LS	Entered
Last race Next race		2nd, KEE MSW (10/24/2024-R3) 2024 Rampart LS
2		Power Squeeze Union Rags	7.10	Jorge Delgado David Egan	7th, 2024 Cotillion G1 2024 Rampart LS	Entered
Last race Next race		7th, 2024 Cotillion G1 2024 Rampart LS
3		Windy Walk Munnings	0.00	Christopher Davis Tyler Gaffalione	1st, CD STR (11/20/2024-R6) 2024 Rampart LS	Entered
Last race Next race		1st, CD STR (11/20/2024-R6) 2024 Rampart LS
4		Intrepid Daydream Jess’s Dream	4.79	Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. Irad Ortiz, Jr.	4th, 2024 Sugar Swirl LS 2024 Rampart LS	Entered
Last race Next race		4th, 2024 Sugar Swirl LS 2024 Rampart LS
5		Unsolved Mystery Goldencents	4.12	Jorge Delgado Jose E. Morelos	2nd, GP AOC (11/24/2024-R6) 2024 Rampart LS	Entered
Last race Next race		2nd, GP AOC (11/24/2024-R6) 2024 Rampart LS
6		Dazzling Move Not This Time	0.00	Michael J. Trombetta Jorge Ruiz	5th, Safely Kept 2024 Rampart LS	Entered
Last race Next race		5th, Safely Kept 2024 Rampart LS
7		Charlie’s Wish First Dude	4.12	David Fawkes Miguel Angel Vazquez	6th, 2024 Daring Kathy Handicap LS 2024 Rampart LS	Entered
Last race Next race		6th, 2024 Daring Kathy Handicap LS 2024 Rampart LS
8		Soul Of An Angel Atreides	7.80	Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. Drayden Van Dyke	1st, 2024 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint G1 2024 Rampart LS	Entered
Last race Next race		1st, 2024 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint G1 2024 Rampart LS