Women’s Sprint Champ Goodnight Olive Tops Bed o’ Roses

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Women's Sprint Champ Goodnight Olive Tops Bed o' Roses

When Coach Chad Brown said he was looking forward to meeting Good night olives run in Bed o’ Roses Stakes (G2), the “running” part is given special attention.

Back on May 6, defending women’s sprint champion Goodnight Olive was the favorite with a 1-2 in the six-man field for Derby City Distaff Stakes (G1) at Churchill Downs. But after seven consecutive wins, including last year’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1), the 5-year-old Ghostzapper The mare was pinned to the track and could not find a place to run on the last turn and throughout the stretch.

The end result was a third place finish, two miles behind the winner. Matareya the one ahead of her along the inside, and the one behind by a length evil aura who was by Goodnight Olive’s side all the way.

Brown said: “They pinned her and trapped her in a trap. “(Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr.) ate her during the run.”

After seeing a streak of three straight wins in Grade 1 that ended on Kentucky Horse Racing Day, Goodnight Olive will try to get back on the winning track as she tops a field of five including Wicked Halo in $200,000 Bed o’ Roses Stakes for older women and mares June 17 at Belmont Park.

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Owned by First Row Partners and Team Hanley, Goodnight Olive enters the seven-feathered Bed o’ Roses with a career mark of seven wins in nine starts, second and third place and earnings in the mix. industry is $1,466,200.

She was purchased by First Row Partners, Liz Crow’s agent, for $170,000 from the Summerfield consignment at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale.

Bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings from a Smart Strike mare salty strike , the Eclipse Award winner has won five of her six starts at seven long distances, her high water for the distance. Brown made the game with the idea of running her with the top women of the June 10 Ogden Phipps Stakes (G1) at 1/16 mile, but chose to keep her at a distance. the way the water recedes.

“She’s doing well now. We want to keep sprinting for her,” Brown said. “We’ve been looking closely at Phipps, but I’m not ready to take her that far. Maybe later this year.”

Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Wicked Halo also ranks among the top sprinters. ‘s biological daughter gunman Trained by Steve Asmussen, has won seven of her 13 career starts. The 4-year-old has only been replaced once in her career, with one-two and four-thirds of her credit.

She rallied from sixth to third in the seven-seater Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, three-and-a-half short of Goodnight Olive.

Small field also includes Godolphin’s caramel vortex 5 years old rag alliance mare won Vagrancy Stakes (G3) at Belmont on her last start. Trained by Bill Mott, this hybrid dog finished second to Goodnight Olive by a bit less than three distances in last year’s Ballerina Handicap (G1) at Racecourse Saratoga.

Rounding the field is Charles Matses’ begin second place in the Bonus Round Two stakes start again, and Dr. B Runner-up in Vagrancy and winner of Go for Wand Stakes (G3) in the previous start.