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Crazy Hot breaking her maiden on debut at Santa Anita May 20. (Benoit Photo)
2-Year-Olds Line Up For Summer Meet Stretch Drive
Del Mar Press Release
DEL MAR, Calif.—It’s a look into the future. A preview of things to come.
Six of the final seven stakes left in the summer meet at Del Mar are for 2-year-olds including the big two, the G1 FanDuel Racing Del Mar Debutante Saturday, September 9 and the G1 Runhappy Del Mar Futurity Sunday, September 10.
The parade of juveniles begins with the $125,000 Generous Portion for Cal-breds today. Seven fillies are entered in the six-furlong race, three of which squared off in the CTBA Stakes earlier in the meet.
Of those three, Crazy Hot finished best, posting a third-place finish in the 5 ½ furlong sprint, which also was restricted to Cal-breds. Jeff Bonde trains the daughter of Goldencents, who broke her maiden at Santa Anita in May by 10 ¾ lengths.
She has since run in two stakes races and finished third in both, the Fasig-Tipton Debutante at Santa Anita in June and the CTBA last month.
“She didn’t get away good that day (in the CTBA) and didn’t run the same race,” Bonde says. “We’ve schooled her in the gate a couple of times and we’re hoping for a better race today.”
Crazy Hot finished behind two quality fillies in the CTBA: Pushiness who is heading to the G1 Debutante and Grand Slam Smile, winner of the Fasig-Tipton Debutante. Crazy Hot finished 4 ¼ lengths ahead of the fourth-place finisher, Putt For Dough, and fifth-place finisher, and her stablemate, Fly A Fantasy. Both are in the Generous Portion.
Four of the entries are coming into the race off of maiden wins. Prancingthruparis won at first asking for trainer Peter Eurton. That was on the turf. The Generous Portion is on the dirt.
“I would have preferred to stay on grass,” Eurton says, “but there’s nothing right now for 2-year-old Cal-breds on the grass. There’s not a lot of grass until the beginning of the year, not even an ‘other than’. We thought instead of just training; we’ll see how she does.”
Blevys Tiger broke her maiden second time out up at Golden Gate Fields against open company. Talent for Gold also won in her second career race against Cal-breds at Del Mar, while it was ‘third times a charm’ for Unified A.P., who won a $50,000 maiden-claiming race at Del Mar last month.
The Generous Portion goes off as race 10 on the 11-race Sunday card. Approximate post time is 6 p.m. PT, 9 p.m. ET.
Here’s the field from the rail with jockeys and morning line odds:
1. Crazy Hot (Mike Smith, 8/5)
2. Blevys Tiger (Juan Hernandez, 5/2)
3. Unified A.P. (Jose Valdivia, 8-1)
4. Putt for Dough (Mario Gutierrez, 6-1)
5. Talent for Gold (Geovanni Franco, 12-1)
6. Prancingthruparis (Antonio Fresu, 6-1
7. Fly A Fantasy (Kent Desormeaux, 5-1)
