Tag: Racing

Lucky Seven Stable's Grade 1-winning millionaire Rattle N Roll, having won at the distance in his previous start, will go after his sixth career stakes victory and fourth in graded company in the historic $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3) Friday at Pimlico Race Course.

The 53rd running of the 1 3/16-mile Pimlico Special, on the eve of the 148th Preakness Stakes (G1), is one of six stakes, three graded, worth $1 million in purses on a spectacular 14-race program co-headlined by the 99th running of the $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) for 3-year-old fillies.

Also on the card are the $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3) for 3-year-old fillies sprinting six furlongs and $100,000 Allaire du Pont Distaff for fillies and mares 3 and up going 1 1/8 miles. They are joined by a pair of stakes scheduled for the turf – the $100,000 Hilltop for 3-year-old fillies at one mile, and $100,000 The Very One, a five-furlong dash for females 3 and older.

First race post time is 11:30 a.m. (ET).

Trained by Ken McPeek, who won the 2020 Preakness with filly Swiss Skydiver, 4-year-old Rattle N Roll exits a 1¼-length victory in the April 22 Ben Ali (G3) at Keeneland. It was his sixth win from 16 lifetime starts at seven different racetracks, pushing his bankroll to $1.21 million.

The connections considered waiting for the 1 1/8-mile Blame (G3) June 3 at Churchill Downs but instead opted for the Special, McPeek's first since running fifth in 2018 with Rated R Superstar. He also finished third with Tejano Run in 1997.

“He's a beast at a mile and three-sixteenths,” McPeek said. “That's the main reason we looked at it. We were originally looking at the Blame, but I decided to go ahead and put him in the Pimlico Special because of the distance.”

Rattle N Roll became a Grade 1 winner in his stakes debut, the 2021 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland, in his 2-year-old finale. He won three times in 10 starts at 3, all in stakes – the Oklahoma Derby (G3), St. Louis Derby and American Derby. He returned to the winner's circle in the Ben Ali after opening this season with a fourth in the 1 1/8-mile New Orleans Classic (G2) March 25 at Fair Grounds.

Flavien Prat will ride Rattle N Roll from Post 2 as the 126-pound topweight in a field of eight.

“He's all systems go,” McPeek said.

Among the competition for Rattle N Roll are fellow graded-stakes winners Clapton and Law Professor.

Aridel's homebred Clapton comes out of a determined half-length victory over Chilean Group 1 winner O'Connor in the 1 1/16-mile Ghostzapper (G3) April 1 at his home course of Gulfstream Park, where he became a stakes winner in the one-mile Gil Campbell Memorial Handicap against fellow Florida-breds last fall.

Law Professor, bred and owned by Twin Creeks Racing Stable, captured an off-the-turf edition of the Santa Anita Mathis Mile (G2) in December 2021 for previous trainer Mike McCarthy. The 5-year-old Constitution gelding joined trainer Rob Atras last summer, and he won the one-mile, 70-yard Tapit in September on the grass at Kentucky Downs off a five-month layoff.

“He'd been at WinStar Farm and they sent him to me. We were training down at Belmont during the Saratoga meet and we kind of pointed toward that race at Kentucky Downs. He'd been training great all summer, but I wasn't really 100 percent sure what to expect and he ran great,” Atras said. “It was a pretty thrilling victory, especially there. Kentucky Downs is such a cool place. You never know how they're going to handle that surface, but it was really great to win first time out with him.”

In his subsequent start Law Professor ran second, beaten 1 ¼ lengths by multiple Grade 1 winner Life Is Good, in the Woodward (G1) at Aqueduct before running fifth to Cody's Wish in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1). This year, Law Professor has sandwiched wins in the Queen's College and Excelsior, both going 1 1/8 miles at Aqueduct, around a third in the Feb. 18 Razorback (G3) at Oaklawn Park.

“He ran great in the Excelsior. He's really done good over that track and the distance. It seems like two turns, a mile and an eighth right around that range is really good for him,” Atras said. “He's got such a high cruising speed and he just kind of ran them off their feet the other day. We're hoping for something like that on Friday.

“He's definitely run against some top caliber horses. He's a pretty nice horse. We're hoping he can handle the competition on Friday and the surface and all that,” he added. “He seems to run well on any surface, so that's encouraging. He's been around and he won on the turf, so he's a pretty versatile horse. He's pretty neat.”

Manny Franco, up for his two stakes wins this year, gets the return call from Post 5 at 122 pounds.

“We've kind of learned different things about him every time we've run him. I think he likes to run kind of near the lead, but he's very versatile. If the pace is fast he can sit back, but if it's just kind of an average pace he can be right on top of it,” Atras said. “I think Manny's really gotten along with him good in a couple starts [together] and he knows how to get him in a rhythm where he's comfortable. I think that helps a lot, too.”

Representing the home team is Ronald Cuneo's multiple stakes winner Armando R trained by Laurel Park-based Damon Dilodovico, who ran third in the 2016 Special with Warrioroftheroses. The 7-year-old Blame gelding snapped a three-race losing streak with a gutsy head victory in a 1 1/16-mile optional claiming allowance April 20 at Laurel.

“He was kind of going through the motions prior to his last race. He was really struggling with the racetrack for a period and it started to come around that's about when he started to train much better,” Dilodovico said. “I love the distance for him. I think he'll love the mile and an eighth and further, just by his training, and that's our whole thing. And, he's right at home.”

Armando R owns eight career wins, two of them from four starts at Pimlico. He captured an off-the-grass Japan Turf Cup and the 1 1/8-mile Richard Small in succession last fall at Laurel, both in his typical late-running style. Regular rider Horacio Karamanos will be up from Post 4 at 120 pounds.

“He's a good guy, very chill in the barn. Actually, for an older guy he can be a bit of a tougher gallop, which is kind of funny,” Dilodovico said. “I'd expect a guy of his age to behave himself.”

Cheyenne Stable's Cooke Creek enters the Special having run second by three-quarters of a length March 12 at Gulfstream and third by a neck April 20 at Keeneland, the latter at 1 1/8 miles. A 4-year-old son of champion Uncle Mo, he won the Rocky Run second time out in his stakes debut and ran second in the Nashua (G3) to cap his juvenile campaign. He went winless in five 2022 starts, all in stakes, his best finish a season-opening third in the one-mile Jerome.

Keystone Field, the 2022 Claiming Crown Jewel winner that ran second to Law Professor two starts back in the Excelsior; Kuchar, second in two prior stakes tries including a two-length loss to Rattle N Roll in the American Derby; and Speed Bias, making his stakes debut after hitting the board in six of eight starts, complete the field.

The Pimlico Special was created in 1937 by Alfred Vanderbilt, the master of Sagamore Farm, as the first major stakes in the United States set up as an invitational, and was won by Triple Crown champion War Admiral. The following year, War Admiral was upset by Seabiscuit in what Sports Illustrated called the 'Race of the Century.'

Revived in 1988 by late Maryland Jockey Club president Frank De Francis, the Special's illustrious roster of winners also includes Triple Crown winners Whirlaway, Citation, and Assault, and modern-day Horses of the Year Criminal Type, Cigar, Skip Away, Mineshaft, and Invasor.

The post Rattle N Roll Looks Formidable In Pimlico Special At Preakness Distance appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

At 9-years-young, seasoned veteran Red Knight earned his first Grade 1 victory in Saturday's $600,000 Man o' War at Belmont Park, and trainer Mike Maker said the Pure Prize gelding could be back for more high caliber action during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival with the  $750,000 Manhattan (G1) at 1 1/4 miles on June 10 and the $250,000 Belmont Gold Cup (G2) at two miles on June 9 under consideration.

“We'll let the horse decide,” Maker said. “He came out of the race well and ate up last night. If I had to enter today, he'd be a go. He's doing really well.”

Owned and bred in New York by Tom Egan's Trinity Farm, Red Knight became only the third 9-year-old horse to win a Grade 1 flat race on the NYRA circuit according to stats provided by Equibase. In doing so, he joined the great John Henry who captured the 1984 Turf Classic at Belmont for Hall of Famer Ron McAnally and John's Call, who won the 2000 Sword Dancer and 2000 Turf Classic. Additionally, Red Knight's Man o' War triumph marked the 14th straight year that a New York-bred horse has won a Grade 1 event.

Previously conditioned by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, Red Knight has now won four times since Maker took over training duties last summer. After emerging from an 11-month layoff to capture his Maker debut in July's Colonial Cup at Colonial Downs, he parlayed his winning form to Kentucky Downs for the Grade 2 Kentucky Turf Cup before a pair of unplaced efforts at Keeneland in the Grade 3 Sycamore and Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf to close out the year.

He returned to action with vigor, coming from last-of-11 to win his 2023 debut in the Grade 3 William L. McKnight on January 28 at Gulfstream Park. He entered the Man o' War off a narrow runner-up finish in the Grade 2 Elkhorn on April 22 at Keeneland, missing a head to fellow Man o' War contestant Verstappen, who finished seventh.

Red Knight was also possible for next Saturday's Grade 3 Louisville at Churchill Downs, but Maker opted for another try at Grade 1 success.

“You don't get too many opportunities at a Grade 1, so we chose to run in the Man o' War and we're glad that we did,” Maker said. “He's always run well fresh and he came out of his race at Keeneland in very good shape.”

The well-traveled Red Knight has found the winners' circle over seven different racetracks, but has garnered the most success at Belmont where he has won five times.

“We've been to Colonial Downs with Red, to Kentucky Downs, Keeneland, Gulfstream Park, back to Keeneland. But here, Belmont Park, seems like home to me. And I know Red has raced here 10 times himself so it's like home to him also,” said Egan on Saturday.

Red Knight endured a lengthy hiatus after finishing sixth in August 2021 in the John's Call at Saratoga. The chestnut spent extended time with Chad Stewart in Ocala, Florida, before returning victorious in July.

“At the beginning of September [2021], he was laid up with Chad and he said, 'Tom I don't know, I think horse could be done,'” Egan recalled. “So, we turned him out for 90 days and we put him back in training to see if there was anything there. Chad, after a week, said, 'He's not doing it, Tom,' so we tried one more week and he said, 'Tom, he wants to be a racehorse.'”

Egan got in touch with Maker to see if he would take up training duties for Red Knight, who had bested the conditioner's Grade 1-winning turf stayer Zulu Alpha on more than one occasion.

“I had observed that he does very, very well with older grass horses. He's made all the difference in the world with this horse, so I'm very appreciative of him,” Egan said.

Egan said he let Maker make the call on Red Knight's next outing.

“The Manhattan is obviously a great race,” Egan said. “The thing about having a 9-year-old is – does he need to go to a farm for 2-3 weeks just to clear his head?”

Red Knight is out of the Skip Away mare Isabel Away and has amassed $1,717,763 in earnings through a 34-12-9-1 record.

The post ‘We’ll Let The Horse Decide’: Manhattan, Belmont Gold Cup Options For Red Knight appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

Michael Lund Petersen's undefeated Faiza will try to extend her perfect record and win her fifth graded stakes in Friday's $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan (G2) at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Faiza and regular rider Flavien Prat will start from Post 9 in the field of 12.

The 99th running of the 1 1/8-mile Black-Eyed Susan for 3-year-old fillies highlights a spectacular 14-race program that includes six stakes, three graded, worth $1 million in purses and serves as an exciting prelude to Saturday's 148th Preakness Stakes (G1), middle jewel of the Triple Crown.

Other graded stakes on the Black-Eyed Susan program are the $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3) for 3-year-olds and up at Preakness distance of 1 3/16 miles and the $150,000 Miss Preakness (G3) for 3-year-old fillies sprinting six furlongs.

Rounding out the stakes action are the $100,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff and a pair of turf events, the $100,000 Hilltop for 3-year-old fillies at one mile, and $100,000 The Very One, a five-furlong dash for females 3 and older. First-race post time Friday is 11:30 a.m. (ET). Post time for the Black-Eyed Susan, which is carded as Race 13.

Faiza broke her maiden sprinting at Del Mar on Nov. 12 and promptly won the Starlet (G1) at Los Alamitos on Dec. 10 under Prat. This year, she has reeled off victories at Santa Anita in the Las Virgenes (G3), the Santa Ysabel (G3) and the Santa Anita Oaks (G2).

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert noted that this will be her first race outside of California, where his stable is based. Faiza could give Baffert a record-tying fourth victory in the Black-Eyed Susan. He has a 3-0-1 record from seven starters. His wins were with Hall of Famer Silverbulletday in 1999, Yearly Report (2004) and Fiftyshadesofhay (2013). The three trainers with four wins are all in the Hall of Fame, too: “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons, D. Wayne Lukas, and Todd Pletcher.

“She's very professional. She's got a really good mind,” Baffert said. “Every time Prat rides he says there is so much more in the tank because she doesn't win by a lot. I think it's going to be a step up. She will be running against more horses, so you never know. But she's doing really well.”

Faiza broke out of her win-by-a-little-bit mode in the Santa Anita Oaks with a 6½-length score.

“She was really on when he asked her to go. I trained her a little bit stiffer for that one because I figured it was going to be a tougher race,” Baffert said. “She looks great. She's healthy. She's really in the zone right now. I think she would have been tough in the (Kentucky) Oaks, but we'll find out in the Black-Eyed Susan.”

Petersen's Adare Manor finished second by 1¼ lengths as the 2-1 favorite in last year's running of the Black-Eyed Susan. It continued a recent trend of favorites losing in the Black-Eyed Susan. It's a remarkable statistic: Royal Delta in 2011 is the only favorite to win in the past 17 runnings of the race.

Gold Standard Racing Stable's Hoosier Philly had a sensational 2-year-old season for trainer Tom Amoss, sweeping three races at Churchill Downs. The gray/roan daughter of leading sire Into Mischief out of the Tapit mare Tapella sold for $510,000 as a yearling. She broke her maiden on Sept. 22, won the Rags to Riches in the slop by 7 ½ lengths and took the Golden Rod (G2) by five lengths. This year, though, her fortunes changed at Fair Grounds. She was third, 8½ lengths behind the winner in the Rachel Alexandra (G2), and fourth, 15 ¼ lengths back in the Fair Grounds Oaks (G2)

She trained very well all along,” Amoss said. “Having said that, it's a bit of a puzzle that we've been trying to correct to get her to run back to her 2-year-old races. It's safe to say each time we've run her, I thought she would run her race. And we haven't seen that to this point.

“Having said that, we like the way she's doing and we're looking forward to competing in what's going to be a very tough race.”

Hoosier Philly and jockey Edgar Morales drew Post 3.

Cats Inthe Timber, trained by Brittany Russell, picked up her first stakes victory in the Weber City Miss on April 15 at Laurel. The Haymarket Farm homebred daughter of Honor Code has won three of six career starts and finished off the board just once.

“She's done everything she's need to do,” Russell said. “Obviously, we would be delighted if she can be competitive in there.”

Jevian Toledo, who ride in the Weber City, has the return call in the Black-Eyed Susan. He and Cats Inthe Timber drew Post 11.

Trainer Todd Pletcher, a four-time winner of the race, entered two fillies: Frosty O Toole and Miracle, who landed in adjoining stalls. Frosty O Toole and Joel Rosario drew Post 5, while Miracle and jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. will leave from Post 6.

Eclipse Thoroughbreds' Frosty O Toole turned in back-to-back wins at Tampa Bay Downs in two-turn dirt races. She was moved to Pletcher's barn and was well-beaten her first try in a graded stakes in the Gazelle (G3) on April 8 at Aqueduct.

In her last start, the New York-bred Miracle was the beaten favorite in the Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2), her second start for Pletcher. She was bumped at the start and never was able to use her speed. Miracle, by Mendelssohn out of the Smart Strike mare Good Omen, spent last year with trainer Rodolphe Brisset in New York. Co-owners Siena Farm and WinStar Farm moved her to Pletcher's barn this year and she opened competition for him by finishing second by three-quarters of a length in the Rachel Alexandra (G2) at Fair Grounds on Feb. 18 to Pretty Mischevious, who went on to win the Kentucky Oaks.

The Don Alberto Stables homebred filly Merlazza has had a strong start to her career with trainer Brad Cox. Wearing blinkers in her debut in Janaury at Fair grounds, she just missed, losing by a head. The blinkers have been off since and she has won three in a row, most recently the Valley of the Vapors at Oaklawn Park on April 22. Cox said that the Black-Eyed Susan looks to be a good fit for the daughter of Medaglia d'Oro.

“She's coming off a stakes win at Oaklawn,” Cox said. “She's probably better suited for a mile and an eighth as opposed to a mile.”

Merlazza and Maryland-based jockey Feargal Lynch drew Post 4.

The Mike Maker-trained Pate was not a threat in the Fantasy (G3) at Oaklawn on April 1, her first try beyond six furlongs. The Virginia-bred daughter of Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver is co-owned by Agave Racing Stable and Living the Dream Stables. Maker will also saddle Towhead, who finished second by a nose as a maiden in the Juvenile Fillies at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 3. She was off the board in her two most recent starts, both Grade 3 races, the Honeybee and the Fantasy.

Jose Ortiz will ride Pate for the first time. They will start from Post 3. Towhead and Tyler Gaffalione landed on the outside in Post 12.

Jockey Manny Franco has been up for all three of Balpool's victories in five career starts and will be her pilot in the Black-Eyed Susan. They drew Post 8. Balpool, trained by Rob Atras for Madaket Stable, has won her last two starts, both at Aqueduct, an optional claimer/allowance and the off-the-turf Memories of Silver on April 29.

Astras was puzzled when Balpool followed her maiden victory on Feb. 5 at Aqueduct with a clunker fourth at Laurel on March 10.

“We were kind of scratching our heads as to what kind of filly she was,” Atras said. “That allowance race came up so we figured we'd give her another shot in there and she really handled that field well that day. She really finished up good and kind of ran away from them. We got a little lucky with the stake (coming off the turf) but she still beat a couple decent fillies in there so, to me, it looks like she's progressing and getting better with every start. We're kind of excited about her and we're hoping that if we do run that she'll take another step forward.”

The Black-Eyed Susan will be Balpool's first try at 1 1/8 miles. The Laurel race is her only one around two turns. Since that setback, she was has dominated in her two wins.

“I guess time will tell,” Atras said. “It's a different ballgame going two turns but she's a big filly. She's got a nice big stride on her. I don't see why she wouldn't get the distance. Obviously, you don't know sometimes until you run but she definitely looks like she's got the tools to do it.”

Sacred Wish, co-owned by Black Type Thoroughbreds, Swinbank Stables, Steve Adkisson, Christopher Dunn and Anthony Spinazzola, started her career this year with Lynn Chleborad at Oaklawn Park. After she broke her maiden in her second start, the Not This Time filly was transferred to the care of George Weaver, who saddled her to a second-place finish in the Gulfstream Park Oaks.

Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez takes the mount on Sacred Wish. They will leave from Post 1.

Richard Bahde and trainer Randy Morse claimed Taxed, a daughter of Collected, for $50,000 in November and she has emerged as a stakes runner at Oaklawn Park with a pair of seconds behind Wet Paint, the beaten favorite in the Kentucky Oaks (G1). She ended up two lengths behind Wet Paint at 27-1 in the Martha Washington and two races later was 2 ½ behind the star filly at 33-1. Rafael Bejarno retains the mount on Taxed, who drew Post 10.

First run in 1919 as the Pimlico Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan was renamed in 1952 to honor the Preakness and Maryland's state flower. Nine of its winners have gone on to be named champion 3-year-old filly including Hall of Famers Davona Dale, Real Delight, Royal Delta, Serena's Song, Silverbulletday, and Twilight Tear.

Among other prominent Black-Eyed Susan winners are Hall of Famer Gallorette; Nellie Morse, the only filly to also win the Preakness, in 1924; But Why Not, Caesar's Wish, High Voltage, Vagrancy, Wide Country and Wistful.

The post Eleven To Take On Unbeaten Faiza In Black-Eyed Susan appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott and jockey Junior Alvarado continued their exceptional run of form together in graded stakes when Godolphin's Kentucky homebred Caramel Swirl rallied to score an easy victory in Sunday's $175,000 Vagrancy (G3), a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for older fillies and mares, at Belmont Park.

“She ran really well, fresh today,” said Mott. “He [Alvarado] let her settle and get her feet under her and she came with a nice run. I was really pleased.”

The Vagrancy was the second graded score this weekend for Mott and Alvarado, who teamed up Saturday to win the Grade 3 Runhappy with Candy Man Rocket over at Belmont. The two have teamed for Grade 1 wins this year with Cody's Wish in the Churchill Downs Stakes and Art Collector in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational, along with two other graded victories.

Caramel Swirl enjoyed the second graded win of her career, adding to a triumph in the 2021 Grade 2 Raven Run at Keeneland. She made her second start of the year after a six-month respite that ended with a fourth-place finish in the Minaret in February at Tampa Bay Downs. She completed her 4-year-old campaign last year with a game runner-up effort to Goodnight Olive in the Grade 1 Ballerina Handicap at Saratoga Race Course.

Breaking alertly from post 3, Caramel Swirl was unhurried by Alvarado as Rossa Veloce quickly established command to her inside and led the field of seven through an opening quarter-mile in :23.30 over the fast main track. Longshot Easy to Bless was asked to improve position midway down the backstretch and loomed on the outside in second as Dr B battled for third position between Funny How and Mosienko.

Approaching the turn, Caramel Swirl drifted back to last as Rossa Veloce clung to her lead in the turn after a half-mile in :46.60, keeping to task as Mosienko ranged into contention down the center of the track and appeared poised for a serious challenge. But Alvarado shook his reins exiting the turn while guiding Caramel Swirl five-wide to take dead aim at a stubborn Rossa Veloce.

Mosienko gave way and Alvarado needed only to give slight encouragement to Caramel Swirl for her to sweep past her pacesetting rival in the stretch and take charge just past the sixteenth pole, drawing away easily to post the 2 1/2-length victory over the oncoming Dr B, who found her best stride late after going widest of all in the turn.

Rossa Veloce finished three-quarters of a length behind Rossa Veloce for show honors with Mosienko, Midnight Stroll, Funny How and Easy to Bless completing the order of finish. Beguine was scratched.

Alvarado said he opted for a more patient trip after racing closer to the pace last time out when fourth in Tampa Bay Downs' Minaret.

“At Tampa, the track was extremely fast. She's a filly that likes to break, but she likes to get comfortable,” Alvarado said. “You have to let her find her rhythm and I was just playing the track that day, so I think I rushed her too much off her feet and she didn't like that. Today, she broke well again. I took a hold and let her get into her rhythm. When she hit the three-eighths pole, I knew she was already full of run. I had a lot of horse underneath me, so I just let her cruise along, tipped out and she did the rest.”

Alvarado has now ridden the daughter of Union Rags in 10-of-13 career starts, and said the mare continues to improve with every race.

“She's been developing great,” Alvarado said of Caramel Swirl, who is out of the Smart Strike mare Caramel Snap. “She's been a little unlucky with hiccups along the way, but she always comes back and tries her best. I think we're going to have an even better horse this year.”

Mott added that he would like to give Caramel Swirl another try at a top-level victory this summer at Saratoga Race Course in the $500,000 Ballerina Handicap on August 26, a Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” for the Grade 1 Filly and Mare Sprint in November at Santa Anita Park.

“Hopefully, we can run back in the Ballerina,” Mott said.

Caramel Swirl banked $96,250 in victory and improved her record to 13-5-4-2 with total purse earnings of $588,450. She returned $6.40 for a $2 win wager.

The Butch Reid Jr.-trained Dr B made her first start after a five-month layoff that came on the heels of an impressive victory in the Grade 3 Go for Wand in December at Aqueduct Racetrack. Irad Ortiz Jr., who earned a record 77th stakes victory in a single North American season when piloting Dr B to her Go for Wand victory, was aboard again in the Vagrancy and said he had to change his plans when Dr B did not make the lead.

“I had to wait a little longer than I wanted to,” said Ortiz. “I broke running but I couldn't make the lead and I couldn't hold my position in second, so I had to go to Plan B. There weren't too many options. I had to sit behind the speed and wait longer than I wanted to, but that's racing.

“She was running,” Ortiz added. “The winner is a nice filly, too. I think we're in good shape. It was a nice race for her coming back. She can improve off that for sure.”

The post ‘She Came With A Nice Run’: Caramel Swirl Powers Last To First In Vagrancy appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post