CRK Stable’s Justique fast ending winner, first impression will appear to be more relevant to routing, highest paying ranking among seven minors who will try the first two in Chandelier Staking (G2) worth $200,000 on October 8 at Santa Anita . Park.
Qualifiers for the “Win & You’re In” A Breeders’ Cup Challenge, the 1/16-mile Chandelier winner will earn a paid entry into the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) on November 4 at Keeneland.
Coached by John Shirreffs and ridden by Victor Espinoza, Justique made a slow and legless start to her 5 1/2 debut on July 31 at Del Marbut hit her best stride on the long turn and won with perfect ease while dropping some three clear next winner’s length Cooking at home in an eye-catching attempt.
Justique & @VictorEspinoza choose one by one to win confidently for @StablesCrk. pic.twitter.com/tD7pfOJUmX
– Del Mar Racetrack (@DelMarRacing) August 1, 2022
Triple Crown Winner 2018 Evenly get out Bernardini mare Grazie Millie, Justique sold for $725,000 to Mayberry Farms at Keeneland’s September 2021 Annual Sale from Glenwood Farms shipment. She is a half-sister from a different mother Mo town (Uncle Mo), 2016 Remsen Stakes (G2) and 2017 Hollywood Derby (G1T) winner, both at 1/8 mile.
Two other candidates — trained by Peter Miller And Tell Me Nolies and Bob Baffert-trained Home Cooking — received a rematch from their last meeting, September 10 Del Mar Debutante Stakes (G1). During that race, And Tell Me Nolies tracked down her opponent with a protracted angry rally to win the rope with a head. Cooking at home might have gotten a bit grueling compared to the first-turn bid she was leading.
Shirreffs chose to skip Del Mar Debutante with Justique to wait for Chandelier.
And Tell Me Nolies, owned by Peter Redekop, belongs to Interrogation out of classification wins Exchange rate mare Equal .
Winner 9 1/4 maiden length goes 5 1/2 stretch. On August 21, Home Cooking was subsequently eliminated from the 3-5 favorites at Del Mar Debutante before being eliminated late. The Chandelier will also reunite her with Justique, who won their debuts on July 31 for both.
Owned by Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman, Home Cooking, by Honor code get out Spin hard mare Olympic Avenue was popular in all three of her races.
Huntingcoco second of two entrants in the Baffert, was the first excellent first winner to go 5 1/2 laps on 4 September, winning 6 3/4 length while taking the Number 84 Baffert won. Chandelier 12 times.
Owned by Villa Rosa Farm and Harlo Stable, the Huntingcoco is a Pennsylvania cross breed by Realistic jokes out of mare Maria’s Mon Sulis .
Dancing on ice , a purebred Bass Stables, starting her third. Coached by Richard Mandella, Ice Dancing finished third in both starts — the And Tell Me Nolies race was won. She is the daughter of Frosted out of winnings Welcome dance (Henny Hughes ).
Mike Powers’ Naughty Lottie her California debut. In Scarlet Emerald (Desert Party), naughty Lottie won the first question Louisiana Downs and then placed third at Prairie grasslands in Prairie Meadows Debutante Stakes. Midnight Lute Her daughter is coached by Justin Jeansonne. Jeansonne purchased Naughty Lottie for Powers at the Ocala Breeders Spring 2022 Sale from Paul Sharp consignment for $17,000.
Rounding the field as Repole Stables’ Can not control . Good Girl Trained by Michael McCarthy, bought for $130,000 earlier this year at Ocala Breeders’ Spring Sale. Start up race outside the breeding company in California for the first time.
Item: Chandelier S. (G2)
Santa Anita . ParkSaturday, October 8, 2022, Race 6
- Level II
- 1 1/16m
- Dust
- 200,000 dollars
- 2 yo Fillies
- 3:38 pm (local)
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