HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida, CMC – Saffie Joseph Jr’s Three Witches held off a late bid by favourite Maryquitecontrary to win the function Grade 3 US$200 000 Princess Rooney Invitational Stakes on her added-money debut at Gulfstream Park right here Saturday.
Going off at odds of 10-1, the four-year-old brown filly received a clear journey beneath jockey Leonel Reyes to achieve the wire by half-length in a time of 1 minute, 22:89 seconds and get the higher of the three-year-old and upward fillies and mares in race 9 over seven furlongs.
Maryquitecontrary completed second after her late cost failed, whereas 3-5 probability R Adios Jersey ran third.
For Three Witches, owned by e 5 Racing Thoroughbreds, the win was her third in seven begins.
“She wasn’t far off on numbers if ‘Mary’ didn’t run her finest,” mentioned the Barbadian Joseph.
“I feel Mary fired. I believed she was going to get us. When she will get in that spot, she runs down horses.”
He continued: “She’s run some respectable races the place she confirmed glimpses of hope, after which she’d disappoint after a few races.
“We gave her a break, and she or he returned to win nicely. Right this moment, she put it collectively. She needed to make a bounce, and she or he did.”
Longshot Poiema stormed to the entrance to set the tempo, laying down fractions of twenty-two:17 seconds for the quarter mile and 44:37 for the half-mile, R Adios Jersey chasing from second, 22-1 wager Olivia Darling in competition in third, and Reyes maintaining Three Witches out of bother in mid-pack.
R Adios Jersey attacked on the ultimate flip, however Maryquitecontrary got here with a flying run on the surface to make issues attention-grabbing on the prime of the stretch.
Virtually unnoticed. Nonetheless, Three Witches slipped to the entrance and held nicely regardless of stress from the favourite.
With the occasion designated a Breeders’ Cup win-and-you’re-in race, Three Witches now has an opportunity to enter the historic weekend at Santa Anita subsequent month, and Joseph mentioned that call could be left to the proprietor.
“The Breeders’ Cup, we’ll discuss. It’s one other jump-up. She earned the appropriate to go,” Joseph mentioned.
“We’ll need to resolve. [The owner] goes to make that call. I’ll give him suggestions on how she’s doing, however he’ll make the decision.”
The win was one in all two on the day’s card for Joseph after he additionally captured race 5 over 6-1/2 furlongs with 3-1 alternative Catalytic, beating the two-year-old maidens by 5-1/2 lengths.
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