4 rivals hoped the clock would strike midnight on Godolphin’s Cinderella’s Dream the afternoon of Aug. 2, however that was to not be. The grade 1-winning 3-year-old filly rallied to victory with a simple come-from-behind win over Kathynmarissa within the $388,000 Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes (G2T).
The race was one in all two graded stakes races on turf at Saratoga Race Course Friday. The opposite was the Nationwide Museum of Racing Corridor of Fame Stakes (G2T), a race for 3-year-old males gained by Neat .
Although Cinderella’s Dream was towards the rear of the sector for a lot of the 1 3/16-mile Saratoga Oaks, she at all times appeared an imposing presence beneath Godolphin’s first-call rider William Buick, who stored her huge, a couple of lengths off sluggish fractions of :24.75 and :49.80 set by Macanga .
Coming into the far flip, the Frankie Dettori-ridden Kathynmarissa went after the chief and poked a head in entrance after six furlongs in 1:14.34. And she or he remained in entrance approaching the sixteenth pole when Cinderella’s Dream caught and handed her together with her typical fast flip of foot. Cinderella’s Dream pulled away for a 1 1/2-length victory, crossing the wire together with her ears starting to prick ahead. She was clocked in 1:54.92 for the space over agency turf.
Buick mentioned Dettori on Kathynmarissa “nipped up the within and made a race of it. However I used to be at all times snug with my filly, I by no means actually had a second’s fear. She responds so rapidly to something I ask her.”
Closely favored on the idea of a 5-for-6 race report coming into the race, a mark that included a victory within the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T) in July, Cinderella’s Dream paid $2.60 to win.
Kathynmarissa, who briefly regarded a risk when accelerating on the head of the lane, was a transparent second, three lengths forward of Dancing N Dixie in third. Movin’ On Up and Macanga weakened to complete fourth and fifth, respectively, in the sector of 5.
Along with Buick, who traveled abroad from his British base for the trip and two different key mounts Aug. 3 at Saratoga, British coach Charlie Appleby was additionally at Saratoga. The victory marked his eleventh graded stakes victory in North America this yr with a United States division for the Godolphin’s powerhouse world operation.
“She’s clearly a cultured filly and the category of the race,” Appleby mentioned. “The one reservation I had (was) that she put up such an enormous (pace) determine there final time that I used to be at all times involved whether or not there could be a bounce out of that. To be truthful to the staff, they have been at all times assured that she was in good order.
“She’s gone on the market and completed it comfortably. You can see that when (Buick) began taking her again on the flip and ready as a substitute of constructing that transfer earlier. He waited till the straight and simply let her stride out in a hands-and-heels trip.”
Godolphin bred the 3-year-old daughter of Shamardal out of the Dubawi mare Espadrille in Nice Britain.
Godolphin, Appleby, and Buick teamed to seize their second Saratoga Oaks after With The Moonlight ‘s success in 2022.
Appleby talked about a begin in both the Sept. 14 E. P. Taylor Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine or the Oct. 12 Queen Elizabeth II Problem Cup (G1T) at Keeneland as upcoming race choices for the Cinderalla’s Dream, “after which take a view of a Breeders’ Cup—however we’ll see, and we’ll see what’s round. What she would take to that assembly could be loads of expertise, and, as you recognize, within the Breeders’ Cup, you want that and a draw.”
