Cash is King and LC Racing's Dr B scored her first graded stakes triumph one year ago in the $200,000 Go for Wand (G3), a one-mile main track test for fillies and mares at Aqueduct Racetrack, and will look to score a repeat win in this year's edition Dec. 2.
Trained by Butch Reid Jr., the 5-year-old daughter of Liam's Map was last seen finishing fourth in the Parx Dirt Mile when facing males on Sept. 23 at her home base of Parx Racing. That effort was her first outside of the graded ranks this year after four starts at the top level, including a game second to Caramel Swirl in the Vagrancy (G3) when making her seasonal bow in May at Belmont Park, and a distant runner-up effort to 2021 champion 2-year-old filly Echo Zulu in the Honorable Miss Handicap (G2) in July at Saratoga Race Course.
“She's doing great and she'll breeze tomorrow,” said Reid. “We've given her a freshening since her last start with an eye to a title defense in the Go for Wand, so we're going to go ahead and take a shot. She likes the Aqueduct course and she's been in some really tough spots – she's taken on some of the best in the country and certainly hasn't embarrassed herself. We're looking for a little bit easier than she's been up against. We expect her to show good speed. I wouldn't mind a little rain, either.”
In addition to the Go for Wand, Dr B has made one other start at the Big A when a good second to Boston Post Road in the seven-furlong Pumpkin Pie last October.
Bred in Kentucky by Eico Ventures, Dr B has earned $473,240 in total purses through a record of 21-5-7-2. She is a half-sister to Stand Up Comic, who won the 2021 Parx Futurity for the same ownership and Reid.
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