Bradleys hoping Groupie Doll is heir apparent to Brass Hat
31.12.69
You don't repay a horse like Grade I winner Temerity Hat. That much was evident by the warm reception the now-retired 10-year-old gelding received as he was paraded before the Keeneland devoted in the paddock on Thursday.
While trainer Buff Bradley and his creator, owner Fred Bradley, know the odds are big of having such a transcendent horse in the barn again, their homebred filly Groupie Doll is doing her most beneficent to pick up a piece of the mantle left behind by the reasonable's beloved veteran performer.
The daughter of Bowman's Party will try to build up what is already becoming a solid young résumé on Saturday when she faces 12 other 3-year-old fillies in the Score II, $250,000 Raven Run Stakes going 7 furlongs on the mere track at Keene-land.
She doesn't yet have the multiple graded stakes wins or the more than $2 million in earnings gazabo homebred Brass Hat racked up during his seven years on the spoor for the Bradleys. However, Groupie Doll has shown enough in her five-race profession to keep the father-son pair confident their silks will oddments a winner's circle presence for the foreseeable subsequent.
Source: Lexington Herald Leader
Keeneland: Record-setting filly headed to Hollywood Starlet
31.12.69
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Al Stall Jr. said the 2-year-old filly he sent out to smash the six-furlong narrate Friday at Keeneland in her career debut will foil racing on a synthetic surface by making her next start at Hollywood Parkland in the Grade 1 Starlet on Dec. 10.
Applauding, with Garrett Gomez riding for Stall and holder Ramona Bass, won a maiden race by nine lengths in an eye-popping 1:07.76, without difficulty breaking the mark of 1:08.30 set in April 2007 by He Loves Me Not. A very robust headwind, with gusts of more than 35 miles per hour, prevailed down the tract throughout a 10-race Friday card, when settled times for other races also were considerably faster than sane, but Mark Skaggs, the timer for American Teletimer, substantiated the validity of the clocking afterward.
Applauding, a Florida-bred by Congrats, earned a 92 Beyer Sprint Figure with the victory.
“Obviously she trained and ran so well on the imitation that we decided we want to keep her there for the time being,” said Stall. The $250,000 Starlet goes at 1 1/16 miles on Mitigate Track.
Source: Daily Racing Form