Still undefeated now in four starts, 'TDN Rising Star' With the Angels added a third consecutive stakes win Sunday with the Key Cents Stakes at Aqueduct. Stepped up in distance while facing New York-breds in each of her three prior starts, she cut back here to six furlongs (her winning debut distance) off the one-mile Maid of the Mist Stakes Oct. 27. Kept in this spot instead of chasing open company in next month's GII Demoiselle Stakes, With the Angels took all the money as the 1-5 chalk but, for the first time, didn't break on top from her rail draw and had to settle back while a close-up fifth. Tipped out off the fence around the far turn, she began to inch forward in pursuit of Stone Smuggler who turned for home on the lead. Fanned out five across at the furlong marker, With the Angels showed her class while clearing off inside the final sixteenth to stay perfect.
“I told [jockey] Jose [Ortiz] the one hole kind of wasn't ideal, and I anticipated a lot of speed in this race and that it was probable we'd want to take the opportunity to sit off of it and see how she [With the Angels] handled that,” said winning trainer Linda Rice, who also noted that future goals for her 'Rising Star' included starts in the Bouwerie, the Test and the Victory Ride. I think keeping her from six [furlongs] to a mile, six and a half or seven might be her sweet spot – who knows. We'll find out in the long run. Today she was running on the end of it like she almost needed a little more ground to get there – I was concerned. I would say we'll probably keep her a one-turn six-to-a-mile this coming season unless we start to see other things. It's a great way to cap off her 2-year-old season, so we'll send her home and give her a couple months off.”
One of 12 stakes winners for Omaha Beach, With the Angels was a $350,000 OBS April purchase for Justin Casse and is her dam's second stakes winner, joining SP Maggy's Palace (Palace Malice). Sister Margaret produced a colt by Twirling Candy this year and is due back to Street Sense. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
WITH THE ANGELS, daughter of @spendthriftfarm stallion Omaha Beach, wins the Key Cents Stakes with @jose93_ortiz up for @LindaRiceRacing! pic.twitter.com/mmHuaglnAu
— NYRA (🗽) (@TheNYRA) November 17, 2024
KEY CENTS S., $100,000, Aqueduct, 11-17, (S), 2yo, f, 6f, 1:10.56, ft.
1–WITH THE ANGELS, 122, f, 2, by Omaha Beach
1st Dam: Sister Margaret, by Pulpit
2nd Dam: Dance Gal Dance, by Disco Rico
3rd Dam: Dr Margaret, by Dr. Blum
($65,000 Ylg '23 SARAUG; $350,000 2yo '24 OBSAPR).
O-Winning Move Stable, John C. Oxley, Lady Sheila Stable,
Rideau Racers LLC and Sanford H. Robbins LLC; B-Joseph
DeRico (NY); T-Linda Rice; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $55,000. Lifetime
Record: 4-4-0-0, $283,250.
2–Nina Kay, 120, f, 2, Cupid–Pont de l'Alma, by Catienus.
1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-William L. E. Sinkler (NY); T-Linda Rice.
$20,000.
3–Stone Smuggler, 122, f, 2, Honest Mischief-
-Bustinattheseams, by Bustin Stones. ($19,000 Ylg '23 KEEJAN;
$57,000 Ylg '23 SARAUG). O-NY Final Furlong Racing Stable and
SunsetRidge Racing Stable; B-Eaton & Thorne, Inc (NY); T-Jorge
Abreu. $12,000.
Margins: 2, HF, HF. Odds: 0.35, 38.75, 9.70.
Also Ran: Bam's Bliss Kiss, D's a Rock, Valtellina, Bellacose, Phoebeinwonderland. Scratched: Shoot It True.
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