Extendo’s Debut Turns Heads at Gulfstream

At the OBS June sale, Bell Racing paid $25,000 for Extendo, a 2-year-old colt by Handsome Mike bred by the stalwart partnership of Joe and Helen Barbazon, Ed Seltzer and Beverly Anderson. That purchase already looks like a major bargain based on the colt’s eye-catching debut at Gulfstream Park yesterday.

Extendo went off at 2-1 for his 5 1/2-furlong trip after posting a pair of bullet works at Palm Meadows and he more than ran back to his trials. With Emisael Jaramillo in the saddle, Extendo went wire-to-wire, putting up swift fractions of :22.75, :45.55 and :57.20 en route to scoring by nearly eight lengths. His clocking of 1:03.45 missed the track record by just 77/100ths of a second.

Extendo earned $19,600 for his maiden-breaker, plus a juicy award for his breeding partnership.