NEWS
Cotillion next for star filly Blind Luck
Posted: Monday, September 27, 2010 5:46 PM
BLIND LUCK
Benoit & Associates photo
by Mike Curry
After soundly defeating multiple Grade 1 winner Devil May Care in the Betfair TVG Alabama Stakes (G1) on August 21, leading three-year-old filly Blind Luck will look to add to her résumé in the Fitz Dixon Cotillion Stakes (G2) on Saturday at Parx Racing.
The $750,000 Cotillion drew five entrants, including Havre de Grace, the filly Blind Luck defeated by a neck to win the Alabama. The Cotillion also lured Grade 2 winner Awesome Maria, winner of the Riskaverse Stakes on grass in her most recent start on September 2 at Saratoga Race Course for trainer Todd Pletcher; Test Stakes (G1) runner-up Bonnie Blue Flag, a stakes winner trained by Bob Baffert; and the D. Wayne Lukas-trained Absinthe Minded.
The Cotillion headliner undoubtedly is Blind Luck, who has amassed five wins, a second, and a third from seven starts this season for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer. Her five victories this year have come in New York, Delaware, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Southern California, with three Grade 1 wins this year and two last year.
Blind Luck won the Kentucky Oaks (G1) on April 30 at Churchill Downs after opening her three-year-old campaign with a victory in the Las Virgenes Stakes (G1) in February at Santa Anita Park. Consecutive wins in the Delaware Oaks (G2) and Alabama solidified the Pollard’s Vision filly’s credentials as the leader of the three-year-old filly division.
Havre de Grace still is seeking her first career stakes victory after finishing second in her three most recent starts, all in stakes races, by a combined margin of a half-length, including by a nose in the Delaware Oaks. Tony Dutrow trains the filly from the only crop of 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam for owner Fox Hill Farm.
Bonnie Blue Flag put together a three-race winning streak earlier this season before finishing third in the Prioress Stakes (G1) and second in the Test.
Mike Curry is a Thoroughbred Times TODAY editor
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Posted by: Mike, Portland, OR on September 28, 2010 at 09:59 PM
Sorry for the typo folks, it should have said "go on with it big girl...
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Posted by: Mike, Portland, OR on September 28, 2010 at 09:57 PM
Go on with it nig girl, you are a lock for the Ladies BCClassic now that RA has been retired
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