Saturday’s Racing Insights: Final Story Headlines Gulfstream Maiden

7th-GP, $84k, Msw, 3yo, 7f, 3:52 p.m. ET.

Gary and Mary West homebred Final Story (Candy Ride {Arg}) has posted four bullet workouts, including a five-furlong breeze in 1:02 (1/28) Mar. 7, at Brad Cox’s Payson Park base ahead of this debut run. Final Story’s dam Book Review (Giant’s Causeway) carried the couple’s hot pink-and-black silks to a win in the 2012 GI La Brea S. and a close second in the 2013 GI Ballerina S. Leading sire and 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner was bred on this same Candy Ride x Giant’s Causeway cross. TJCIS PPS