When coach Saffie Joseph Jr. entered two fillies within the $400,000 Frizette Stakes (G1), he was pragmatic about their possibilities towards the possible heavy favourite Senza Parole .
“I do know (Senza Parole) is in a category of her personal, however they nonetheless must run the race,” he stated earlier this week.
As racetrack destiny would have it, it seems Joseph and the connections of the opposite 2-year-old fillies entered within the one-mile Frizette won’t must face Senza Parole as stories surfaced Oct. 3 that the Chad Brown-trained filly could be sidelined for the rest of the 12 months.
“She was the most effective horse within the race and also you by no means want that on anybody,” Joseph stated Thursday about Senza Parole. “It was unlucky however it makes the race huge open.”
In the mean time, Joseph’s choice to cross-enter graded stakes winner The Queens M G in each the Oct. 4 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) at Keeneland and the Frizette and go for the Oct. 5 Frizette at Aqueduct Racetrack seems to be like a stroke of genius. Whereas the highest three finishers within the Spinaway Stakes (G1) (the place The Queens M G was fifth) are entered within the Alcibiades, the Frizette lacks anybody who has positioned in a grade 1 stakes.
Identical to the Alcibiades, the Frizette has each Breeders’ Cup and Kentucky Oaks (G1) implications. As a Breeders’ Cup Problem Collection race, it can present the winner with an automated, fees-paid spot within the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Del Mar. The Frizette will even award the highest 5 finishers factors on the Highway to the Kentucky Oaks on a 10-5-3-2-1 scale.
“I’m positive there would have been different folks in right here in the event that they knew (Senza Parole) wasn’t working, however that is the way in which it’s. You continue to must exit and win the race,” stated Joseph who entered Gulfstream Park debut winner Paradise Metropolis within the Frizette however didn’t ship her to New York and can scratch her.
Owned by C Two Racing Steady and Mathis Steady, The Queens M G posted a shocking 44-1 upset on opening day at Saratoga Race Course when she took the Schuylerville Stakes. She then produced a fair higher efficiency on the Spa when she cruised to a nine-length win within the Adirondack Stakes (G3).
In her preliminary attempt in grade 1 firm, she ran right into a muddy observe for the seven-furlong Spinaway and weakened within the stretch to complete fifth behind Immersive , who’s entered within the Alcibiades.
“We will not management a moist observe,” Joseph stated. “She had a whole lot of tempo stress and got here up empty. We might prefer to suppose it was the slop however the subsequent race will inform us. She’s labored effectively since.”
The lineup additionally consists of DeSales Eighty-5’s Icona Mama , a Pennsylvania-bred Maximus Mischief filly educated by Flint Stites who was third, rather less than a size behind, within the Pocahontas Stakes (G3), and the undefeated Social Fortress . A daughter of Social Inclusion bred in Florida, she is undefeated in two begins for coach Jamie Ness and is coming off a win within the Sorority Stakes at Monmouth Park.
The Each day Racing Kind reported Senza Parole developed a bodily challenge that can finish her hopes of working within the Breeders’ Cup. The daughter of Gun Runner received her Aug. 23 debut at Saratoga by 7 3/4 lengths, masking six furlongs in 1:09.84.
Entries: Frizette S. (G1)
Belmont on the Massive A, Saturday, October 05, 2024, Race 7
- Grade I
- 1m
- Dust
- $400,000
- 2 yo Fillies
- 3:17 PM (native)