Trainer Marty Wolfson will likely send out the favorite in Saturday's $55,000 The Vid overnight stakes Saturday at Calder Casino & Race Course regardless of whether the test for 3-year-olds and up goes as scheduled at 1 1/16 miles on turf or wet conditions forced the race to the main track as so often happens at this time of year in South Florida.
The same scenario played out four weeks ago when Wolfson had Farnsworth Stables' 7-year-old gelding Jet Propulsion and Team Valor International's 4-year-old colt Causeway's Kin entered in the $50,000 Band Is Passing overnight on July 24, the former for turf as scheduled and the latter if the race came off. Causeway's Kin got to run and win going a mile on a ‘good' main track.
Both accomplished stakes runners are entered in Saturday's The Vid with Jet Propulsion bidding to bounce back from a disappointing trip to New York for his last start when he tired to last of 11 in the Manhattan Handicap (G1) on Belmont Day, June 5, after setting the pace for nearly a mile in the 10-furlong test.
A son of Double Honor, Jet Propulsion will be the one to beat on turf, despite drawing the far outside post 12 as he seeks his first win since the $300,000 Sunshine Millions Turf at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 30. A career winner of nearly $600,000, almost all on turf, Jet Propulsion was a Graded stakes-winner earlier in his career for previous connections and was claimed by Wolfson here in December for $50,00.
Causeway's Kin is a beautifully-bred colt by Giant's Causeway out of Grade 1 winner You and has joined the stakes ranks after breaking his maiden and winning an allowance race early this year for Wolfson at Gulfstream and finished second to highly-accomplished Graded stakes performer Mambo Meister in the Memorial Day Handicap (G3) over the track earlier in the meet.
Wolfson guided the career of Joseph Sullivan's homebred turf stakes star The Vid in the early ‘90s as he won nearly $1 million, finishing third in the 1995 Arlington Million (G1) and going undefeated in five starts over the Calder course, including victories in the first running of the Pete Axthelm Stakes and Tropical Turf Handicap (G3) twice, setting the course record in 1995 for 1 1/8 miles that still stands.
Jockey Elver Nunez is named to ride Jet Propulsion while Jermaine Bridgmohan has a return call on Causeway's Kin.
 An intriguing prospect in Saturday's race is Stephanie Kyle's 3-year-old Bim Bam as he makes his first start since finishing seventh in the $200,000 Oliver Stakes on turf at Indiana Downs on June 30 for trainer David Brownlee in a roughly run race when beaten only 3 ½ lengths for it all by the winner.
Jockey Angel Moreno is named to ride Bim Bam, a highly versatile son of Deputy Wildcat that made a good showing last year on the main track when third to Jackson Bend in all three ‘open' divisions of the Florida Stallion Stakes series, but emerged as a star on turf at Gulfstream Park winning the Hallandale Beach Stakes over Interactif.
Completing the body of the field drawn for The Vid are Douglas Gibson's Grand Cash, Manoel Cruz; Stride Rite Racing Stable's Bernie the Maestro, Pedro Monterrey, Jr.; Korina Stable's Sincero, Daniel Coa; Isaac Muhtar's Fearless Eagle, Eduardo Nunez; Steve Dwoskin's Mean Sax, Jeffrey Sanchez; Santa Cruz Ranch's Black Scorpion, Javier Santiago; Rose Family Stable's Chazmule, Jose Rivera II; Helene and Stephen Weicholz' El Kingdom, Luis Saez; Sharyn and Peter Wasiluk, Jr.'s Dinner in Odem, Wilmer Galviz; and Albert Milano, Power Rules, Luis Arango.
In addition to Causeway's Kin on the ‘also-eligible' list are Ione and Herb Elkins' Dream Maestro, Juan Leyva; and Blackacre Farms' Flatter This, Eduardo Nunez.
Undefeated Awesome Feather Drills Wednesday for Susan's Girl
Jacks or Better Farm's 2-year-old Florida homebred filly Awesome Feather drilled a sharp five furlongs in 1:01 1/5 Wednesday morning for trainer Stanley Gold as she is kept in edge for her likely role as the favorite in the $100,000 Susan's Girl Division of the Florida Stallion Stakes on Juvenile Showcase day, Sat., Aug. 28 at Calder Casino & Race Course.
The daughter of Jacks or Better home stallion Awesome of Course out of stakes-winning Precious Feather has won all three of her starts here, breaking her maiden by 5 ¾ lengths on May 1, a hard-fought half-length score in the $100,000 JJ's Dream Stakes on July 10 and a 4 ¾ lengths victory last out in the $75,000 Desert Vixen Division of the FSS on Aug. 7.
Jacks or Better and Gold also have 2-year-old filly Evil Queen, a daughter of home stallion Hear No Evil, eligible for the Susan's Girl, a maiden that has shown considerable promise finishing second in her last two starts. Awesome Feather and Evil Queen have each also been nominated for the $100,000 Lindsay Frolic Stakes to be run at one mile the same afternoon.
The team is in the same position with a pair of colts eligible for the $100,000 Affirmed Division of the FSS series and $100,000 Seacliff Stakes, companion event to the Linday Frolic on the card of all 2-year-old races. Grande Shores, by Black Mambo, is a maiden but four times second, the last a tough half-length loss in the $75,000 Dr. Fager Division of the FSS to Gourmet Dinner.
Jacks or Better's other colt is Alley Oop Oop, a son of home stallion Monsieur Cat with four starts, finished a well-beaten second last out behind Little Drama in the $100,000 Frank Gomez Memorial on July 10 following two fourth-place tries and a maiden victory earlier in the meet.
In addition to the two Stallion Stakes races, the Seacliff and the Lindsay Frolic, completing the line-up of six $100,000 stakes events on the Showcase program will be the $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash and $100,000 Catcharisingstar Stakes, companion events to be run at five furlongs on turf, the latter for fillies.
Owner-trainer Wesley Ward has a pair of fillies eligible for both races that have recently joined the trainers' local division after breaking their maiden at other tracks in their last starts. Aroyalsweet is a daughter of Chapel Royal that broke her maiden at Woodbine on Apr. 25 after a runner-up debut at Keeneland while No More Yogi's, by Salt Lake, has run three times, breaking her maiden at Monmouth Park on June 11.
The two fillies breezed over the Calder turf course on Monday morning with Aroyalsweet timed a half-mile in 48 4/5 while No More Yogi's got the same distance in 49 flat over a ‘yielding' course. Ward won the 2008 edition of the Catcharisingstar with My Sweet Natalie.