HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – After finishing a troubled and very game second behind odds-on favorite Mindframe in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Mile, Steal Sunshine will accept an invitation to run in the $1 million Godolphin Mile on the Dubai World Cup undercard on April 5 at Meydan. He will be joined on the long journey from South Florida by Super Chow, recent winner of the Gulfstream Park Sprint, who will compete in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen. Steal Sunshine, a 6-year-old son of Constitution trained by Bobby Dibona, got up in the final strides to beat Tumbarumba by a nose in the 2024 Gulfstream Park Mile. He may have run even better in defeat in defense of that title after getting slammed around at the break before rallying from last to finish just 1 1/4 lengths behind Mindframe, generally considered among the top horses in the country. “He just finished second to Mindframe, and if he doesn’t get taken out at the break, I think he might have got him,” Dibona said. Dibona admitted he has some mixed feelings about shipping all the way to Dubai for the Godolphin Mile, but after discussing the options with the ownership group and his regular rider, Paco Lopez, he opted to go. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports available now. “I realize it’s a bit of a taxing trip, but the owners and breeders are excited about going,” Dibona said. “It wasn’t until talking with Paco, who I think I’ve won more races with over the years than anybody, [that] I made the final decision to go. Lopez, who won five races on Saturday’s card, guided Steal Sunshine to victory in the 2024 Gulfstream Park Mile, as well as third-place finishes last year in the Grade 3 Fred Hooper and Ghostzapper stakes. But he told Dibona it was Steal Sunshine’s most recent performance that impressed him the most. “Nobody knows this guy better than Paco,” Dibona said. “He’s certainly not the easiest horse to ride. You can’t rush and use him early. And Paco told me he feels he’s a different horse – a much better horse right now than he was last year. They’ve got kind of a long stretch over there and if we get some speed in the race and shine a little luck on him, who knows?” Super Chow snapped a four-race losing streak when rallying to victory in the six-furlong Gulfstream Park Sprint on Feb. 22. The win was the 10th in 22 starts for Super Chow. Eight of those victories have come in stakes, with three against Grade 3 competition. “We feel the horse deserves a shot,” trainer Jorge Delgado said. “He runs well basically every time, it’s the right distance for him, and he’s coming off a good win when showing a different dimension by rallying from off the pace. That’s one of the things that encouraged us to go.” Delgado said Chantal Sutherland, who was aboard Super Chow for the first five victories of his career and who has been riding regularly in Dubai this winter, will have the mount. Delgado also reported that he will likely scratch Grade 1 winner Power Squeeze from a one-mile allowance race Thursday that also drew 2023 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Just F Y I and Grade 1-placed Gun Song. “At the moment, I’m thinking she won’t run,” Delgado said of Power Squeeze. “We’ll either point her for the Apple Blossom [at Oaklawn Park on April 12] or the Top Flight the same day at Aqueduct. I really want to stay two turns with her, and I think breaking from the rail on Thursday, especially at that distance, is just too much to overcome against that strong of a field.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.