Stablemates Frigid Sister, Last True Love Sweep Sunday Feature; Rainbow 6 Carryover for 11-Race Monday Program
Stablemates Frigid Sister, Last True Love Sweep Sunday Feature; Rainbow 6 Carryover for 11-Race Monday Program
More’n Likely Takes Inside Trip to Stay Unbeaten in Co-Feature
Rainbow 6 Carryover for 11-Race Monday Program
LAUREL, MD – Frigid Sister, in her second career start, made a last-to-first move on the extreme outside to power past pacesetting stablemate Last True Love and head a Steve and Debbie Jackson homebred exacta in Sunday’s featured eighth race at Laurel Park.
A chestnut daughter of Sky Mesa ridden by Kevin Gomez, a finalist for the 2016 Eclipse Award as champion apprentice, Frigid Sister ($22.60) ran six furlongs in 1:11.32 over a fast main track for her second win in as many starts.
Flint Stites-trained stablemate Last True Love was 3 ¾ lengths behind in second with Zensational Kiss third in the $42,000 entry-level allowance for 2-year-old fillies. Proportionality, off the board in two previous stakes attempts, was fourth, a half-length ahead of 4-5 favorite Guiltywithanexcuse, who suffered her first loss in three starts following a troubled trip.
“I was behind the favorite and I saw she got in trouble so I wanted to get out of the way and not get behind them if something happened. I went around them and she just took it from there,” Gomez said. “I just followed instructions. [Stites] told me she might break slow, so let her get set in the race and take it from there. She ran great.”
Lael Stables’ More’n Likely slipped through an opening along the rail in mid-stretch and held off favored Quality Time to capture Sunday’s co-feature, a $42,000 entry-level allowance for fillies and mares on the Bowl Game Turf Course. The winning time for 5 ½ furlongs was 1:02.06.
It was the second straight win for More’n Likely ($8.60), a 3-year-old daughter of Blame purchased for $275,000 as a yearling in September 2015. She cruised to a three-length triumph in her Aug. 30 unveiling at Delaware Park for trainer Arnaud Delacour.
Irish Fix got out quickly and tried to steal the race on the front end setting fractions of 22.58 and 45.67 seconds. Feargal Lynch saved ground with More’n Likely and had plenty of room leaving the far turn to get the jump on Quality Time, who took a quick bump when Irish Fix tired and drifted out, finishing 1 ¼ lengths behind the winner. Late-running Grogger was third.
There will be a jackpot carryover of $6,442.80 in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 for Monday’s 11-race program that begins at 12:30 p.m. Tickets with five of six winners Sunday returned $626.70.
Monday’s Rainbow 6 spans Races 6-11 and includes a $47,000 third-level optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up at one mile in Race 8 and a $45,000 second-level optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on the Exceller Turf Course in Race 10.
Following Monday’s card, live racing returns to Laurel with a nine-race card Friday, Oct. 27. Post time for the duration of the calendar year-ending fall meet is 12:30 p.m.
