Oaklawn Park has canceled, the weather in New York, where Aqueduct had a two-stakes card, looks rough, and Santa Anita’s stakes feel chalky. Let’s make it an all-Florida affair in this Weekend GamePlan. Holy Bull Todd Pletcher has merely won four of the last 10 stakes he’s entered, a cataclysmic drop from his start to the Gulfstream Park championship meet, when Pletcher entered horses in six stakes and won them all. The Todd Train’s relentless Gulfstream roll could continue with horses in four more stakes Saturday culminating in the Holy Bull. Are we hopping aboard? We’re not. Mo Donegal carries Pletcher’s banner in the Holy Bull. The colt showed grit and talent in a three-start, late-season New York campaign capped by a win in the Remsen. The Remsen, as most know by now, has for years been a negative key race in terms of 3-year-old stakes production, and Mo Donegal’s 90 Beyer might overrate his performance. He has posted a series of encouraging works (even kinda sorta holding his own against the monster Colonel Liam) but is the 3-1 favorite on the morning line and possibly due for a tricky inside trip from post 2. The Holy Bull’s major pace factor is Simplification, who holds no appeal in these quarters. He dominated a soft one-turn mile in the Mucho Macho Man and his subsequent workouts look better on paper than do the ones available on video. :: Serious horseplayers use serious products. Get DRF's premium past performances, now free for the first time White Abarrio stands to get the perfect pressing trip outside Simplification, and his Kentucky Jockey Club, which looks pretty good on paper, was at least a little better than it looks on paper. The issue: a gap in works between Jan. 10 and Jan. 28. Tiz the Bomb aired in his lone dirt start and was visually impressive doing so, but the opposition was about what you’d expect for an early July off-turf maiden race at Ellis Park. I think he’s got a chance to handle dirt and the price ought to be square, but he, like Mo Donegal, does shoulder 124 pounds, giving a meaningful six pounds to my selection, Giant Game. I’d be hoping for a little more than the 7-2 morning-line price on Giant Game and think that might be plausible since consensus is starting to question the strength of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. I question it too, but Giant Game was racing just three weeks after a second-start, first-route maiden win, and he actually might have poked his head in front of Corniche at the head of the homestretch before losing momentum. In any case, that was an encouraging performance first time against other winners and Giant Game’s maiden win got a major boost when runner-up Call Me Midnight won the Lecomte Stakes. Giant Game appears to have worked with verve over the Gulfstream strip and with luck and a decent break he can duck into a good spot tracking White Abarrio while two wide into the first turn. From there, we’ll see if he’s made progress into his 3-year-old season. Trainer Dale Romans, for what it’s worth, ran two-three in the 2019 Holy Bull. :: Get Daily Racing Form Past Performances – the exclusive home of Beyer Speed Figures Endeavour Lady Speightspeare is the likely favorite in an appealing renewal of the Endeavour but still, even at this relatively advanced stage, is making mistakes during her racing. I’m not sure she’s quite as good as her recent speed figures and she was scratched last Saturday out of the Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf. I gave Morning Molly and Oyster Box, both drawn wide, long looks. Morning Molly loves Tampa Bay Downs and was only prepping last out in a Gulfstream sprint. Oyster Box has been working well with the good older horse English Bee, and could get a favorable setup. But In Italian has star potential. Yes, she’s beaten modest opposition in her two wins, but this filly has a wicked turn of foot to go with her positional pace, and she need not lead to succeed. I think she’ll prove tactically versatile if need be and is set to step forward with her best race. Sweetest Chant Nostalgic showed her low debut Beyer Speed Figure did not consign her to a career at Finger Lakes when she came back with a very decent Demoiselle fourth, and I feel strongly that the filly is meant for turf. A lack of pace could prove a complicating factor, but if Junior Alvarado can just maintain some sort of decent position from Nostalgic’s rail draw, I think she’ll run this group down.