Fresh off her gate-to-wire maiden-breaking score in her third career start at Del Mar Nov. 13, Broadway Girls, given an unconvincing 16-1 chance for her stakes debut, showed a similar burst of speed to wire the field in Friday's Blue Norther S. Ridden hard to the front from her middle gate by jockey Edwin Maldonado, Broadway Girls was joined on her outside by Pleasant Wave (More Than Ready) into the first turn before assuming solo command through an opening quarter set in :22.79. Going easily on lead while chased by a pair of rivals just behind her, she held control as the field surged around her past the quarter pole. Challenged by a wall of closers led by 2-1 favorite Manhattan Jungle, Broadway Girls kept finding more and refused to cede the lead for the convincing win.
“She's got a lot of speed and so does Ami Please,” said winning trainer Doug O'Neill. “We knew they were fast fillies and credit to Glenn (owner, Sorgenstein, of Ami Please), he said, 'We can't both win on the lead, one (of these) horse(s) is going to be in front,' so we asked Frankie (Dettori, aboard Ami Please) to try to take off the pace to see if we could pick 'em up late and by doing that, it gave Broadway Girls a big chance.”
The fifth black-type winner for her freshman sire (by Friesan Fire), Broadway Girls has a yearling half-sister by Street Boss and a weanling half-brother by West Coast. Her dam visited Higher Power for 2023. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
BLUE NORTHER S., $103,000, Santa Anita, 12-30, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:36.01, gd.
1–BROADWAY GIRLS, 120, f, 2, by Army Mule
1st Dam: Fond Hope, by Midnight Lute
2nd Dam: Fondness, by Elusive Quality
3rd Dam: Shining Through, by Deputy Minister
($9,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT; $60,000 2yo '22 OBSOPN).
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-ERJ Racing, LLC, Pappas Horse Racing,
Corp & Neil A. Haymes; B-Trackside Farm & Tenlane Farm (KY);
T-Doug F. O'Neill; J-Edwin A. Maldonado. $60,000. Lifetime
Record: 4-2-0-0, $108,020.
2–Manhattan Jungle (Ire), 118, f, 2, Bungle Inthejungle
(GB)–Skylight (Ire), by Acclamation (GB). (€20,000 Ylg '21
GOFSPT). O-Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners; B-Patrick Headon
(IRE); T-Michael W. McCarthy. $20,000.
3–Ami Please, 120, f, 2, Goldencents–Bellezza Rosso, by Tapit.
O-Glenn Sorgenstein WC Racing Inc. & Wonderland Racing
Stables, LLC; B-Glenn Sorgenstein (KY); T-Doug F. O'Neill.
$12,000.
Margins: 1HF, HF, NK. Odds: 16.90, 2.30, 9.70.
Also Ran: Tea N Conversation, Thebestisyettobe (Ire), Naughty Lottie, Spanning the Globe, Decorated My Life (Ire), Pleasant Wave, Ragtime Rose, G Laurie. Scratched: Showgirl Lynne B.
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