The road to Kentucky Oaks runs through New York on December 4 when Aqueduct race track organized $250,000 Demoiselle Stakes (G2) for 2-year-olds. The 1/8 mile 1 dirt road race offers 10-4-2-1 qualifying scores for the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) next spring at Churchill Downs.
Manzanita Stable’s Click Trust made her debut but with such high quality. Trained by Christophe Clement, Tapit filly broke her girlhood in persuasive fashion at Belmont as she goes from last to first with an inner rally to win by head. Purchased for $1.25 million by Claiborne Farm, dealer, from a Bluewater Sales shipment at the September 2020 Yearling Sales in Keeneland, she is no longer an Alabama Stakes (G1) winner. Lace embellishment (Super savings ).
“She’s very well-bred, so we’re excited. She won her first game,” Clement said.
Now that’s how you win a spot! 1.25 million dollars @Chinahorseclub-bred Tap The Faith goes from last to first to score in her first start for @clementtable. She is the fourth most expensive person in @keenelandsales Last September when @claibornefarm bought her from our consignment! pic.twitter.com/yKSypWsIaA
– Bluewater Sales (@BluewaterSales) November 7, 2021
Tap the Faith has returned twice since her winning debut, including an easy five-eighths win in 1:03.21 Nov.
“I was running back a little faster at Demoiselle, but she was doing too well so I had to go,” Clement said. “She has a great voice and looks good. I would have liked for another week or two, but that’s the way it is. She’ll get some rest after that.”
Joel Rosario is on the train.
Hall of Fame coach Todd Pletcher runs a pair: Nest and Miss Interpreter . Pletcher has won the Demoiselle six times, all since 2001, most recently with Malathaat in 2020. Malathaat took this year’s Kentucky oak tree.
ONE Curlin apparently, Nest is owned by Repole Stable, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Michael House. She ran out of bets AP Indy mare Marion Ravenwood , making her the complete younger sister of a high school winner Idol .
“She should love the one-mile and one-eighth,” says Pletcher. “She will appreciate the stretch in the distance.”
Irad Ortiz Jr.
StarLadies Racing and Glen Hill Farm’s Miss Interpreter will break through on post 1 under Luis Saez. NS Street Sense The 2-year-old boy rallied to win US$120,000 in PG Johnson shares at Racecourse Saratoga earlier in the year was one and a half long.
Magic circle , owned by Manitou Farm, completed a comeback against Nest placing second in the final mile-long Tempted Bet. NS Kantharos will be ridden by Manuel Franco on her first two-turn attempt.
Trainer Rudy Rodriguez seemed confident in the extra long haul, saying, “She’s a chubby and I don’t think it would be a problem if she lasted an eighth of a mile, but you wouldn’t. know until they make it.” Hopefully, she’s good enough. ”
The entire field consists of Kentucky hybrids, except for one: New York Hybrids Venti Valentine . Trained by Jorge Abreu, Activation Line The 2-year-old will race against jockey John Velazquez on the Walk of Fame. Owned by NY Final Furlong Racing Stable and Parkland Thoroughbreds, she will be looking to improve to 3v3 as she enters the open company.
Item: Demoiselle S. (G2)
Aqueduct race trackSaturday, December 4, 2021, Race No. 9
- Level II
- 1 1/8 minutes
- Dust
- 250,000 dollars
- 2 yo Fillies
- 3:43 pm (local)
