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Gamine sets a track record for seven furlongs (1:20.20) in the 2020 Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland.
Idle since winning the Grade 1 Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Sprint Nov. 7 at Keeneland, Bob Baffert s brilliant 4-year-old filly Gamine towers over her competition going six furlongs in Sunday s Grade 3, $100,000 Las Flores Stakes at Santa Anita.
Supplemented at a cost of $2,000, owner Michael Lund Petersen s Gamine will face three rival fillies and mares in what will be her first start at Santa Anita since she aired by 6 ¼ lengths in her 6 ½ furlong debut on March 7, 2020. A winner of both the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes going a one turn mile at Belmont Park on June 20 and the Grade 1 Test Stakes going seven furlongs at Saratoga Aug. 8, Gamine, who was purchased for $1.8 million at the Fasig Tipton Mid Atlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale in May, 2019, has four wins from six starts with earnings of $883,000.
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Not This Time filly Vacay winning the Key Cents Stakes in her second career start
Two-time stakes winner Laobanonaprayer will cut back in distance in Saturday s seventh running of the $100,000 Franklin Square, a 6 1/2-furlong test for New York-bred sophomore fillies at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y.
Owned and trained by Daniel Velazquez, the bay filly is a daughter of second crop stallion Laoban, who broke his maiden against stakes company in the 2016 Grade 2 Jim Dandy at Saratoga Race Course.
Like her sire, Laobanonaprayer also notched her first career win at stakes caliber when defeating next-out winner Frost Me in the one-mile Maid of the Mist on October 24 at Belmont Park, which took place following a respective third and second against maiden special weight company at Delaware Park.