Dazzling Move lived up to her name in Saturday’s Royal Delta S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park, reeling in Grand Job in the final sixteenth to give the 4-year-old Not This Time filly her first stakes win.
Dazzling Move was the first of two graded winners on the day for Not This Time. A few hours later the 3-year-old colt Magnitude would score a runaway victory in the Risen Star S. (G2) at Fair Grounds, vaulting him squarely into the Kentucky Derby picture.
Dazzling Move got away cleanly from the middle of the starting gate and settled into third as she rounded the first turn. She held her spot in the clear down the backstretch before she began to close in on Grand Job, who had taken over the top spot. Dazzling Move got within a half-length of the lead before Grand Job re-broke to open up by two in midstretch. Dazzling Move still had more to give though and overtook Grand Job to win by three-quarters of a length.
“This is big,” trainer Saffie Joseph said. “To already win a Grade Three on the dirt, everything else is a bonus now. There was no plan after this, basically. We’ll try to keep her two turns and go from there.”
Purchased privately by Miller Racing LLC last month, the winner is now 4-1-1 in 15 starts and has earned $258,547. The dark bay was bred by Jesse Korona.