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Luck Looks Tough in Red Carpet

LNJ Foxwoods homebred Luck (Kitten's Joy) looks well positions to make the grade in Del Mar's GIII Red Carpet H. on Thanksgiving. A two-time winner on all-weather in France for Alain de Royer-Dupré, the chestnut bested re-opposing England's Rose (English Channel) in a shorter Aug. 7 optional claimer here before missing by just a head when second in Santa Anita's 10-panel GI Rodeo Drive S. Oct. 2. England's Rose, meanwhile, took her next two, clearing the first-level allowance condition over course and distance Sept. 3 before adding the restricted Swingtime S. at a flat Santa Anita mile Oct. 9. GIII Santa Barbara S. heroine Neige Blanche (Fr) (Anodin {Ire}) also owns a victory over this trip–in the Aug. 14 CTT and TOC S.–and was fourth in the Rodeo Drive. Katsumi Yoshida's Nicest (Ire) (American Pharoah) is an intriguing fresh face. Third in the G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks July 17, she was fourth in the 1 1/8-mile GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. at Keeneland Oct. 16 in her final start for Donnacha O'Brien. Michael McCarthy has since taken over training duties for the daughter of 2013 Irish Oaks winner Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}).

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Del Mar: Special Thanksgiving Day Card Topped By Red Carpet Handicap

Del Mar will present a special Thanksgiving Day card on Thursday with a first post at 11 a.m. The eight-race program will finish at approximately 2:30 p.m., leaving plenty of time for fans to make it back home for a turkey dinner.

The day's feature is the eighth local running of the Red Carpet Handicap, a marathon of a mile and three eighths that will be contested on the Jimmy Durante Turf Course. The Grade 3 test is for fillies and mares and has brought out five long-winded distaffers who'll be shooting for the lionesses' share of the $100,000 purse.

Three of the five runners have European backgrounds and one of them, L N J Foxwoods' Luck, figures to go favored off her two sharp efforts this year since coming stateside. The 4-year-old daughter of the top American grass sire Kitten's Joy smartly won an allowance race at Del Mar in August, then came back on Oct. 2 in the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes at Santa Anita to just miss to the multiple-stakes winner Going to Vegas.

Luck, who previously had won twice in France from four starts, will be handled Thursday by leading rider Flavien Prat. She currently trains out of the barn of Hall of Fame conditioner Richard Mandella.

Here's the full lineup for the headliner from the rail out with riders and weights:

West Point Thoroughbreds, Mercedes Stables or Mooney, et al's England's Rose (Victor Espinoza, 120 pounds)
Luck (121)
Madaket Stables, De Seroux or Naify, et al's Neige Blanche (Juan Hernandez, 121)
Ryan, Drown or Team Hanley's Single Soul (Joe Bravo, 115)
Katsumi Yoshida's Nicest (Umberto Rispoli, 117)

Neige Blanche finished fourth in the Rodeo Drive in her most recent try. The French-bred 4-year-old by the Irish sire Anodin captured the CTT & TOC overnight handicap at Del Mar on Aug. 14 at the same 11-furlong distance on grass as the Red Carpet. Earlier this year she won the Grade 3 Santa Barbara Sakes at a mile and one-half on the grass at Santa Anita.

England's Rose comes into the affair off two straight wins, the most recent being the Swingtime overnight stakes at Santa Anita. Her previous victory was at a mile and three eights on the lawn at Del Mar on Sept. 3.

Single Soul is in from the east coast to try her luck Thursday. She was an allowance winner at Belmont Park on Oct. 22 in her most recent effort.

Nicest was a distant fourth in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Keeneland Oct. 16 in her first U.S. outing. The 3-year-old by American Pharoah had been taking on stakes horses in England and Ireland prior to that.

The early Thanksgiving card will be the first of four days of racing going through Sunday, Nov. 28 that will served as the climax to` the 2021 Bing Crosby Season. First post on the other three programs will be at 12:20 p.m.

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Motion Sends Single Soul In Pursuit Of Red Carpet Victory At Del Mar

Maryland-based trainer H. Graham Motion won the 2015 running of the Red Carpet Stakes with Rusty Slipper. Motion's assistant Alice Clapham, who has traveled with his horses to Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif., since 2009 as part of worldwide assignments, was here to do the preparation work and saddling.

That combination, both natives of England, will be seeking a second score in the $100,000 Grade 3 Red Carpet, a 1 3/8-mile race for older fillies and mares on Thanksgiving Day. It's the first of seven graded stakes which make up the four-day Turf Festival to end the Bing Crosby Season.

Single Soul, a 3-year-old English-bred daughter of Dubawi, notched her second win in six career starts in a Belmont Park allowance race on October 22 and has been training since at Motion's facility in Fair Hill, Maryland. The most recent work was Saturday, five furlongs in 1:03 breezing.

Single Soul is scheduled to journey here on Tuesday. Clapham has been at Del Mar since before the Breeders' Cup earlier this month.

“I haven't heard anything about the work, but (Motion) must have been happy with it or he wouldn't have entered her,” Clapham said this morning. “I've been around her before and she's a really sweet filly. She hasn't traveled before but she seems quite sensible, so you'd think she will be OK with it.”

Single Soul had a forgettable debut for trainer Chad Brown on a yielding surface at Belmont a year ago. In five starts for Motion, she has never been off the board, notching a maiden win at Belmont Park in June and the 1 1/8-mile allowance there as an odds-on favorite in a field of six last month.

The Red Carpet will be her first race at the stakes level.

“We think she'll like the longer distance and we know she likes firmer turf,” Clapham said. “You can't really get that in New York right now, so this looks like a nice spot. Graham is sending out some for other races as well, so it kind of works out.”

A field of five was entered Saturday for the Red Carpet. From the rail out with riders in parentheses: England's Rose (Victor Espinoza); Luck (Flavien Prat); Neige Blanche (Juan Hernandez); Single Soul (Joe Bravo), and Nicest (Umberto Rispoli).

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England’s Rose Wins Swingtime At Santa Anita

In her first stakes assignment, the John Shirreffs-conditioned England's Rose proved more than equal to the task as she displayed an impressive turn of foot to rally from off the pace and take Saturday's $70,000 Swingtime Stakes at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. Ridden by Victor Espinoza, England's Rose got one mile on turf in 1:33.99.

Taken in-hand out of the gate, England's Rose who was shortening up off of a 1 3/8 mile turf allowance win, saved ground early and under patient handling and with just two horses to beat at the three-furlong marker, rallied impressively while five-deep off the turn for home to win going away.

“Victor did a good job, taking ahold of her and dropping back to save ground early,” said Shirreffs. “She's got a great finishing kick, so he waited as long as he could, but when those fillies came up inside her around the far turn, he had to go. Now we'll try to move up (in class). You always like to see them repeat a performance.”

First or second in her last four starts, England's Rose last started on Sept. 3 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif. Off as the 7-2 second choice in a field of eight fillies and mares three and up, she paid $9.40, $4.00, and $3.00.

“I was hoping we had enough pace,” said Espinoza, who has ridden England's Rose in all but one of her seven starts. “You never know before the race. My only thought was that hopefully they would go a little quick…I can't really change how she likes to run, so it's one of those things you just have to let the horse do all the work and let her run in the end.”

A 5-year-old mare by English Channel out of the Kris S. mare Gingham and Lace, England's Rose is owned by Mercedes Stables, LLC, West Point Thoroughbreds, Scott Dilworth, Dorothy and David Ingordo, and Steve Mooney.

With the winner's share of $46,320, England's Rose has earnings of $159,450 from an overall mark of 7-3-2-0.

The actual favorite at 7-2, Norma Jean B. was attentive to the pace and took command inside the eighth pole but was no match for the winner late. Ridden by Abel Cedillo, she paid $3.80 and $3.40.

Chilean-bred Brooke, off at 4-1, rallied from off the pace with Kyle Frey and paid $3.60 to show while finishing 1 ¼ lengths better than Avenue de France.

Fractions on the race were :23.02, :46.80, 1:10.70, and 1:22.52.

First post time for a 10-race card on Sunday is at 1 p.m.

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