Colebrook Farms’ Merely in Entrance didn’t stay as much as her identify within the early phases of the $1,767,200 Music Metropolis Stakes (G2T) at Kentucky Downs Sept. 7, however proved merely the most effective by the wire.
“She’s only a filly that’s getting actually good proper now,” stated coach Eddie Kenneally. “She might be an excellent 4-year-old filly subsequent 12 months. She’s on the enhance, she’s actual good.”
Recognizing the sphere a number of lengths out of the gate, jockey Luis Saez confirmed persistence in the back of the sphere of 12. Behind a gap quarter-mile of :22.78, Saez swung his 3-year-old daughter of Summer time Entrance large off the flip and got here with a strong rally as she took the lead exterior the eighth pole.
Dueling with pacesetter Pipsy for the ultimate eighth of a mile, Merely in Entrance hit the wire a half-length clear whereas finishing 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:16.01 and paying $14.62. Vive Veuve was third.
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“She sort of fell asleep a bit bit there (within the beginning gate),” Saez stated. “We knew that they had a whole lot of pace. She all the time comes with a giant flip of foot. At the moment, she ran a giant race.”
Kenneally was assured coming into the race that the gap and distinctive configuration of Kentucky Downs would swimsuit his filly.
“I knew she’d like this new setup right here, Kentucky Downs, she hadn’t run right here earlier than,” Kenneally stated. “You do not know what horses are going to like it till you run them. I had an excellent feeling about this filly and it paid off.”
Kenneally has been the coach of document for all 4 of the filly’s profession begins in Kentucky whereas Patrick Dixon’s identify resided within the Canadian program for her 5 begins at Woodbine. Dixon educated her to runner-up finishes in final 12 months’s Natalma Stakes (G1T) and July 27 Ontario Colleen Stakes (G3T), but it surely was Kenneally who added the primary graded victory to her résumé.
“It actually enhances her complete web page and her worth,” Kenneally stated. “She’s from a really sturdy feminine household. This filly bought great backside facet to her pedigree, she’s going to be a pleasant broodmare down the road, too.”
Bred in Kentucky by William Harrigan and Mike Pietrangelo, Merely in Entrance is out of the Blame mare Difficult . Merely in Entrance turned the third stakes winner produced by the dam and second graded winner. Her half sister by Honor Code is three-time graded stakes winner Honor D Woman , winner of the July 7 Delaware Handicap (G2) in her final begin. Difficult’s dam, Consequence, was grade 3-placed and winner of the American One Thousand Guineas Stakes at Arlington Park in 2009.
Video: AGS Music Metropolis S. (G2T)
