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Lady Belsara goes wire to wire in Chicago Handicap

Posted: Saturday, June 16, 2007 8:50 PM

LADY BELSARA

by K. T. Donovan

Switching leads was a problem for Lady Belsara in the $175,000 Chicago Handicap (G3) on Saturday at Arlington Park.

Winning was not.

Despite not switching leads until deep stretch, Lady Belsara turned back runner-up Trendy Lady and earned her first career graded stakes win in a half-length victory.

“She ran a really big race. My horse really dug in and tried hard,” jockey E.T. Baird said. “The owners gave me instructions to try to get her to change leads. I tried a couple of times, but she was a little stubborn about it, so I figured I’d better go ahead and start riding her. She finally switched about ten yards from the wire.”

At the Moment Stables’ Lady Balsara set a pressured pace on the inside and opened a one-length lead through a quarter-mile in :22.79. The Boundary filly led by a half-length through a half-mile in :45.37, and maintained her advantage to the finish while winning the seven-furlong race in 1:23.10 on Polytrack.

Grade 3-placed stakes winner Dimple Pinch finished third, one length behind Grade 3-placed winner Trendy Lady.

Matt Kintz trains Lady Belsara, who entered off a third-place finish in the Fit for a Queen Stakes on May 19 at Arlington.

The bay filly has earned four wins in seven starts over two seasons and earned $175,860. Bred in Kentucky by Bronze Bell Farm and Partners, Lady Belsara is the first winner out of the unraced Unbridled mare Wolfendale Island.

For an Equibase chart, click here.

K. T. Donovan is a Thoroughbred Times contributing writer

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