Named a 'TDN Rising Star' for her 7 1/2-length romp at Keeneland in April, Shoot It True then took on the boys as the heavy favorite in the Kentucky Juvenile Stakes at Churchill Downs May 2 but weakened off the lead after fast fractions to finish fourth behind another classy filly in West Memorial (Caracaro). Unraced since that effort, she lined up again Saturday against the boys in her longest distance to date for Wesley Ward who opted to remove the blinkers for his 5-2 third choice. Sharp from the middle of the gate, Shoot It True went on with it up front while dealing with a pesky Kenny Be past the half in :46.12. Never letting that rival by, she rode the rail around the far turn and responded in kind to rousing by Frankie Dettori by opening up down the lane, coming under the wire geared down while clearly the class of the field.
“She's a nice filly,” said Ward. “She relaxed a lot more. Took the blinkers off, but if you see the first part of the race, she is pricking her ears – with the blinkers they don't do that, because they don't know who is around them. So that is the reason I did that. I told Dave Reid, the owner here, that we were maybe about 80 percent fit, but she is a really, really good filly. I think she is going to be a much better 3, 4-year-old filly. So this will be the last start of the year for her and we will bring her back in the spring. Won't see her again until either Keeneland in the spring or here in the spring.”
One of 79 stakes winners for Munnings, Shoot It True was a $340,000 yearling buy out of SARAUG for Preferred Equine. To the Moon Alice, a half-sister to GSW Unchained Melody (Smart Strike), saw her yearling Street Sense colt sell for $120,000 also at SARAUG. She is due back to Gunite after not taking on a Speightstown cover for last year. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
SHOOT IT TRUE, the 2YO daughter of @coolmoreamerica stallion Munnings, beats the boys in the Notebook Stakes with @FrankieDettori up for trainer Wesley Ward! pic.twitter.com/7GCNPn4iMb
— NYRA (🗽) (@TheNYRA) November 16, 2024
NOTEBOOK S., $100,000, Aqueduct, 11-16, (S), 2yo, 6f, 1:10.17, ft.
1–SHOOT IT TRUE, 118, f, 2, by Munnings
1st Dam: To the Moon Alice, by Malibu Moon
2nd Dam: Love Match, by Partner's Hero
3rd Dam: For Love Alone, by L'Enjoleur
($340,000 Ylg '23 SARAUG). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Ice Wine
Stable and Smart Choice Stable; B-Old Tavern Farm LLC (NY);
T-Wesley A. Ward; J-Lanfranco Dettori. $55,000. Lifetime
Record: 3-2-0-0, $96,506.
2–Kenny Be, 120, g, 2, Complexity–Stay Composed,
by Bernstein. ($35,000 RNA Ylg '23 SARAUG; $20,000 Ylg '23
EASOCT; $115,000 2yo '24 OBSAPR). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Clear
Stars Stable and Mitre Box Stable; B-Apache Farm LLC (NY);
T-David P. Duggan. $20,000.
3–Soontobeking, 120, c, 2, King for a Day–Swayed, by Freud.
($80,000 2yo '24 OBSMAR). O-Our Blue Streaks Stable, SGV
Thoroughbreds and George Weaver; B-Our Blue Streaks Stable
& SGV Thoroughbreds (NY); T-George Weaver. $12,000.
Margins: 4 1/4, 1 1/4, 3/4. Odds: 2.70, 2.65, 5.20.
Also Ran: Man in Finance, Three B's, In the Chase. Scratched: Phoebeinwonderland.
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