1st place winner of Repole Stable Chocolate Gelato will start for the first time since finishing the group in last year’s Juvenile Breeders’ Cup (G1) against six other 3-year-olds in June. Belmont Park.
Chocolate Gelato, coached by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, won the Frizette Stakes (G1) last fall by a mile at Belmont at Big A where she fights hard with the New York hybrid You are my girl to win in a length. The win, her first on the stake level, came after the first score from the rope entry in second place with the requirement to go six stretches in Racecourse Saratogawhere the daughter of Realistic jokes won a career and the best 92 Beyer Speed in the field.
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies was the first two-pass start for Chocolate Gelato, who Pletcher said was progressing well by the time she was 3 years old.
Pletcher, who has also coached class 1- three times of the race, said: “She did very well and performed very well. For her, it was a nice transition from 2nd place. 3rd place and we look forward to her playing again.” same name wins.
Pletcher added that Jersey Girl is a springboard for “hoping for bigger things to come” but did not identify any particular race as a long-term goal.
Irad Ortiz, Jr., pilot in all four of the colt’s previous starts, retained the mount from lesson 4.
Ashbrook Farm and Upland Flats Racing Graded Bet Winners The red carpet is ready (post 1, Luis Saez) brought in the highest earn on the field of $588,670 for Jersey Girl, a narrow win over the promising slut. Munny’s Gold on May 5 Eight Belles Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs.
Trained by Rusty Arnold, Oscar little girl suffered a lone defeat in five starts as third, being beaten seven times in the Davona Dale Stakes (G2) March 4 at Gulfstream Park.
“I think the race was in Florida, there were just a few little things that weren’t quite as good in that race. But Rusty brought her back. Keeneland and did a great job getting her back into winning form,” said Bo Bromagen, Ashbrook Farm’s race director.
Against Davona Dale, Red Carpet Ready won their second-year debut in Forward Gal Stakes (G3) over the Gulfstream oval one-way.
Coach Cherie DeVaux Will Send Turtle Creek Farm Aunt Becca (post 5, Joel Rosario) after a 6 1/4 long conquest with 13-1 odds against the winners on April 22 in Keeneland. The Uncle Mo the chubby girl has made all three of her starts as far as six times, starting with her first win on February 1 at Race Park.
DeVaux said: “She left her last race in really good shape. “She trained really well on dirt and she led 13-1 because her numbers were a bit slower on aggregate. I was impressed with the way she ran, but I wasn’t surprised that she was. win.”
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