HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner Soul of an Angel will have a final chance to enhance her already outstanding 2024 résumé and impress Eclipse Award voters when she goes postward the heavy favorite over a field that includes Grade 1 winner Power Squeeze Thursday at Gulfstream Park in the $140,000 Rampart Stakes. The one-mile Rampart tops a 10-race program that also features the $140,000 Via Borghese for older fillies and mares, which will be decided at 1 3/8 miles on the turf. Soul of an Angel has risen rapidly through her division since being purchased privately by her present connections and turned over to trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. during the spring. She put a punctuation mark on a potential championship campaign in the Filly and Mare Sprint with a last-to-first victory by a half-length over Society and a strong field that also included 2-1 favorite Ways and Means. Soul of an Angel also won the Grade 2 Ruffian at a mile and the Grade 3 Princess Rooney at seven furlongs. She finished third going a 1 1/8 miles in the Personal Ensign. “I would like to hope her getting the Eclipse Award was not dependent on the result of this one race,” said Joseph. “I believe she’s already accomplished enough to be voted the champion, especially since she defeated what figures to be her two main rivals for the award, Society and Ways and Means, in the Breeders’ Cup.” :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  Joseph has given Soul of an Angel ample time to recuperate from her demanding effort in the Breeders’ Cup, a performance that matched her career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 98, which she achieved for the first time in the Ruffian during the spring. She’s worked only twice in preparation for the Rampart, including a very slow and easy half-mile in 54.11 on Sunday. “She’s coming off a really fast race on the sheets, so we haven’t done too much with her preparing for this one, just a couple of easy works,” Joseph explained. “Her last breeze was slower than I’d have liked but the track was a second or more on the slow side, so I wasn’t really concerned. Better too slow than too fast. A mile seems to be good distance for her. I’m just hoping the pace will be an honest one.” Joseph entered two other fillies in the Rampart – Intrepid Daydream, who will scratch after competing here Saturday in the Sugar Swirl Stakes, and Save Time, a maiden transferred to his barn earlier this fall. Save Time’s starting status was still undecided as of Monday. Power Squeeze, one of four 3-year-olds in the lineup, will be closing out a stellar 2024 campaign of her own during which she has won five of eight starts, including the Grade 1 Alabama, Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks, and Grade 3 Delaware Oaks. The well-traveled filly, idle since finishing seventh behind Thorpedo Anna in the Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx on Sept. 21, will be returning to her home course over which she’s perfect in two starts and shortening up to a mile, a distance at which she’s undefeated in three previous outings. The Rampart will be the first time she’s faced older horses in her career. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports available now.  “She needed a freshening after the race at Parx and we felt this was the right time to do it,” said trainer Jorge Delgado. “She’s had a great year and I think she’ll be even better in 2025. She’s definitely fit for this race, everything has fallen right in line for her coming off the layoff, and I’m expecting a big effort. In fact I think she will beat the other filly [Soul of an Angel] on Thursday.” Delgado said if Power Squeeze were to perform up to expectations in the Rampart, he would consider running her back against the boys in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational on Jan. 25. Power Squeeze is one of two fillies Delgado entered in the Rampart along with Unsolved Mystery, who finished second with a lifetime-best 86 Beyer under allowance conditions in her last start. She completes a lineup that also includes Windy Walk, who is riding a three-race win streak for trainer Christopher Davis; the stakes-placed Dazzling Move; and multiple stakes winner Charlie’s Wish. Via Borghese The Via Borghese lured a field of 10 long-distance specialists, led by Forever After All and Marksman Queen, second and third, respectively, in the Grade 3 Red Carpet Stakes last month at Del Mar, and the stakes-winning New York-bred Whatlovelookslike, who is coming off a fifth-place finish for trainer Todd Pletcher in the Grade 3 Long Island at Aqueduct on Nov. 10. Forever After All, Grade 1-placed during the spring, has improved dramatically since stretching out around three turns in her last two starts. Trained by Brendan Walsh, the Dixiana Farms homebred finished second, beaten a nose, in the Grade 3 Dowager at Keeneland going 1 1/2 miles on Oct. 20 before finishing perhaps an even more frustrating second as the odds-on favorite in the Red Carpet. In the Red Carpet she was steadied sharply, costing her several lengths in the process, while within easy striking distance of the leaders and saving ground on the far turn. Marksman Queen finished a tiring third, 3 1/2 lengths behind Forever After All, after looming a major factor turning for home while making her graded stakes debut in the Red Carpet. She is one of two fillies trainer Graham Motion entered in the race along with the Grade 3-placed Three Priests. :: Get the Inside Track with the FREE DRF Morning Line Email Newsletter. Subscribe now.  Whatlovelookslike chased the pace of Be Your Best in the 1 3/8-mile Long Island before tiring to finish 2 3/4 lengths behind that rival, who held on to win by a nose. Be Your Best flattered the effort by capturing the Grade 3 Suwannee River here last weekend. “She ran okay in the Long Island, just felt like trying to run her longer a couple of more times, but she’s been a very consistent filly,” Pletcher said of Whatlovelookslike, who is one of four fillies in the Via Borghese exiting the Long Island, along with Avenue Niel, La Mehana, and Lady Firefoot, who finished fourth, seventh, and eighth, respectively. The biggest question mark in the Via Borghese is Ballado’s Beach, who makes her U.S. debut for trainer Ignacio Correas IV while not having started since capturing the Group 1 Gilberto Lerena Stakes going 1 3/8 miles on the grass in her native Argentina nearly nine months earlier. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.