NEWS
Cocoa Beach, Music Note to stay in training
Posted: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 11:08 AM
COCOA BEACH
Adam Coglianese/NYRA photo
by Jeff Lowe
Cocoa Beach (Chi) and Music Note, the second- and third-place finishers, respectively, in the Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic (G1), may continue carrying Godolphin Racing’s royal blue in 2009.
“At the moment, we are planning to keep Cocoa Beach and Music Note in training for next year,” Simon Crisford, Godolphin’s racing manager, said in an e-mail over the weekend.
Beldame Stakes (G1) winner Cocoa Beach is scheduled for one more start this year in the Matriarch Stakes (G1) on the turf at Hollywood on November 30. The four-year-old filly won her career debut on the grass at Club Hipico de Santiago in her native Chile in January 2007. Her ten other races have been on dirt.
Rick Mettee, assistant to Godolphin trainer Saeed bin Suroor, said specific plans have not been finalized for Music Note, a three-time Grade 1 winner and candidate for champion three-year-old filly.
Mettee said Ashland Stakes (G1) winner Little Belle was retired following her fourth-place finish in the Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (G1) at Keeneland Race Course.
Jeff Lowe is a Thoroughbred Times staff writer
