'TDN Rising Star' Tamara (Bolt d'Oro) was resting comfortably in her stall Sunday morning, the day after capturing the GI FanDuel Racing Del Mar Debutante S.
The daughter of Hall of Famer Beholder sat closer to the pace than in her maiden victory. When jockey Mike Smith asked her, Tamara breezed past the pacesetter, opened up by the top of the lane and cruised home much the best.
The comments afterward told it all.
“It gave me chills,” winning trainer Richard Mandella remarked.
“I've been here in California for four years,” jockey Umberto Rispoli said as he came off the track following his seventh-place finish in the race. “I have never seen anything like that.”
“You don't often see the offspring of a great mare run anywhere close to what they did,” jockey Mike Smith told FanDuel. “But she's an exception to the rule.”
They were talking about the daughter of Bolt d'Oro on the backstretch Sunday morning.
“It was outstanding,” trainer Peter Miller remarked. “She looked like her mother.”
Mandella says Tamara came out of the race fine. In regards to a Breeders' Cup prep, he says they would play it by ear.
“There's a chance we might run her in the GI Chandelier S. Oct. 7 at Santa Anita,” Mandella says. “If it looks like she needs to run again, then we'll run her there. If not we'll point her straight to the Breeders' Cup. But so far she looks great.”
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