The Black Friday $100,000 Pulpit Stakes at Gulfstream Park began with the race being switched from the turf to the Tapeta course due to showers the previous afternoon and ended in both a dead heat and disqualification that ultimately awarded victory to New York invader Glorious Boy.

Glorious Boy finished the Pulpit, run at one mile and 70 yards, on even terms with Bronze Bullet following an eventful stretch run. One which saw Bronze Bullet first drift out, forcing Glorious Boy to alter course to the inside near midstretch and then angle sharply inward to initiate a bumping incident with that rival as the duo neared the finish line.

The stewards lit the inquiry sign, and rightly so, before the official order of finish was even posted on the tote board. It then took approximately ten minutes adjudicating the incident prior to announcing their decision to break the dead heat by disqualifying Bronze Bullet, the 2-1 favorite, for causing interference in late stretch.

Glorious Boy shipped locally for the Pulpit off a second-place finish behind Throckmorton in the six-furlong Awad Stakes at Aqueduct on Nov. 9. Ironically, Throckmorton is trained by Jose D’Angelo Jr., who is also the trainer of Bronze Bullet. The Pulpit marked the first time Glorious Boy had ever competed over a Tapeta surface or raced around two turns.

Bred by Vossfield Bloodstock, Glorious Boy sold with Legacy Bloodstock at the 2023 Keeneland November sale. He’s the 10th Stakes-winning Legacy Bloodstock sales grad of 2025 and 28 other Legacy grads have placed in blacktype events this year.

-edited from www.drf.com