Miss Marissa Heads Turnback the Alarm Handicap

Cammarota Racing’s Miss Marissa  will attempt to win her third graded stakes event when facing four other fillies and mares in the $150,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap (G3) going nine furlongs over the Belmont Park most important observe Nov. 6. 

Miss Marissa, skilled by Jim Ryerson, was a last-out third within the Beldame Stakes (G2) Oct. 10 at Belmont the place she completed behind the victorious Royal Flag  and Horologist , both of whom are entered in Saturday’s Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar. 

When Miss Marissa captured the Delaware Handicap (G2) July 10, it prompted Ryerson to try the 4-year-old daughter of He’s Had Enough  in the Personal Ensign Stakes Presented by Lia Infiniti (G1) seven weeks later at Saratoga Race Course, the place she completed a distant eighth. 

Ryerson mentioned a superb effort by Miss Marissa on Saturday would lead to a begin within the $250,000 Go for Wand Handicap (G3) Dec. 4 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

“I believed she battled properly to try to be second within the Beldame and ran very well that day,” Ryerson mentioned. “Hopefully, we are able to do properly after which go to the Go for Wand from there going a flat mile. We made our mark going slightly additional than that, but it surely’s in our yard.”

Miss Marissa shipped to Pimlico Race Course to seize the George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2) final October. Ryerson mentioned Miss Marissa has developed properly into her 4-year-old season. 

“Going from 3 to 4, you wish to see them get slightly stronger, sooner, and have some extra maturity in them,” Ryerson mentioned. “I believe she’s carried out that. They do not at all times do this. We’ll see how we end the yr and see what Mr. (Alfonso) Cammarota desires to do along with her subsequent yr. Hopefully, we are able to end the yr properly. She’s sound and if she races properly ending up this yr, I believe he’ll plan to race her.”

Ryerson mentioned Miss Marissa, who has gained over 5 totally different ovals, will get loads out of her coaching at Belmont. 

“The one factor that I’ve observed is that she actually likes to coach right here,” Ryerson mentioned. “I used to be slightly upset with how she skilled at Saratoga and to have the outcomes we had, however we have gone out of right here and run quite a lot of locations and he or she’s run properly.”

Kendrick Carmouche will experience Miss Marissa from publish 2. 

Three-time winner Jilted Bride  seeks to make the grade for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen. 

The consistent 4-year-old daughter of Wicked Strong   has never finished out of the money in a dozen lifetime starts. She arrives off a runner-up effort in a seven-furlong allowance optional claimer Oct. 2 at Churchill Downs, which got here three months after incomes black kind when third within the Girl Jacqueline Stakes at Thistledown. 

“There’s only a few that strive each race, and he or she is a mannequin of consistency,” mentioned Peter Bradley of Bradley Thoroughbreds, who owns Jilted Bride in partnership with Tim and Anna Cambron and Brady and Zane Carruth. 

Bradley expressed optimism in Jilted Bride being aggressive at graded stakes stage. 

“This race will inform us,” Bradley mentioned. “She ran a really stable race in her comeback at Churchill. She actually wanted the race. She’s a filly that has undoubtedly matured and gotten higher bodily.” 

Ruben Silvera will experience Jilted Bride from publish 1. 

Finishing the sphere are Gibberish , So Darn Hot , and Firing Carol .