The fat 3 year old division leader did not join the American Oaks (G1) Coaching Club on July 22 at Racecourse Saratoga.
Godolphin’s Kentucky hybrid house Quite mischievous will instead short and run for 7 times $500,000 Trial Stake (G1) at Spa on Aug 5.
Pretty Mischievous was not nominated for the American Oaks Coaching Club.
“We liked (the Test) for her,” coach Brandon Walsh said by phone from Kentucky on July 19. “She has a very natural pace. We thought about shortening her time and this looked like a good opportunity. Team Godolphin was happy to go with it. The test was a very prestigious race.”
The test run also gives Pretty Mischievous, the daughter of into naughty , more rest. She has started four times this year and has three wins and a second. In her final start, on June 9, she won Acorn Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park by an upper head Dorth Vader .
On the first Friday of May, she won the Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs equals at odds of 10-1.
“We wanted to give her a little more time from Acorn,” says Walsh. “She didn’t miss a beat all spring.”
Pretty Mischievous won six of eight career starts with second and third place. At the start of her second career, a stipend at Churchill Downs last October 30, she won at seven stretches.
Walsh said he’ll wait and see what happens in the Tests before seeing his next race, which may—or may not—be the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (G1) 1 1/4 mile on August 19.
“Our goal now is the Test.” Walsh said. “Let’s see how it goes.”
The secret oath will take place in Saratoga, but only once
If you want to see Briland Farms’ secret oath In Racecourse Saratoga This summer, you’ll have to wait.
Hall of Fame coach D. Wayne Lukas says his 4-year-old son will be credited with $500,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) on August 25, a day before Travers Stakes (G1) are worth $1.25 million.
“She’s really doing great, but we decided to bring her here once,” Lukas said July 19, sitting in his office at his barn on Oklahoma Training Road. “We’re trying to arrange her program so it leads to the Breeders’ Cup (Distaff, G1).”
secret oath
Secret oath, daughter of Superior was last seen standing fifth in Ogden Phipps Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park on June 10. It was her fourth game this year after her season-opening win at Azeri Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park March 11th and seconds in Apple Blossom Handicap (G1), also in Oaklawn, on April 15th and La Troienne Stakes (G1) at Churchill Downs on May 5.
The Vow of Secrets had to face things like Claire And play hard who are aiming for $200,000 Shuvee Stakes (G2) on July 23 at Spa.
Last year, Secret Oath won the Kentucky Oaks (G1) and then went undefeated in the next five starts, all of which were level 1 events. She finished second in the American Oaks Coaching Club (G1) and the Alabama Stakes (G1) in 2022 at the Spa Rear. Nest who is also running in Shuvee.
“If you want to know the truth, she can take more, but we’re not going to test that,” Lukas said. “It’s easy to drop off Shuvee and test the waters and see how she handles the track. We’ll go bust on Personal Ensign.”
Lukas says that Robert and Stacy Mitchell, breeders and owners of the Vow of Secrets, want the path to Breeders’ Cup to include a Spinster Stock (G1) at Keeneland like the last race after Personal Ensign.
“They live in Louisville,” Lukas said. “The Spinster is like the Kentucky Derby to them. It’s the show they asked me to watch and it’s not bad.”
