Quiet Street. (Courtney Snow/Past The Wire)
Street Boss gets second stakes win on Sunday at Kentucky Downs
Compiled by Maribeth Kalinich
HENDERSON, Ky.—A hefty field of 11 lined up for the 6th running of the $1,000,000 Untapable Stakes (Black Type) for 2-year-olds fillies at Kentucky Downs on Sunday.
It would be Godolphin’s homebred Quiet Street taking the top prize by one furlong with a final time of 1:14.80 for the 6-1/2 furlongs turf sprint.
Trained by the prolific Bill Mott and ridden by the outstanding Junior Alvarado, Quiet Street settled to race with the second flight racing in hand. Cruising along the inside near the half mile pole she eased out through the stretch racing six wide near the quarter pole and surged up under strong handling for the victory.
With an opening quarter of 22.18, Carolyncaroline set a pressured early pace along the inside but weakened the final sixteenth of a mile and settled for fourth.
Snow Face Princess stalked the pace racing from the inside around the turn into the lane then shifted out three wide near the three sixteenths pole and finished for second. Believe In Magic pressed the early going between rivals then dug in the deep stretch for third.
Prowess, ZZ’s, Trading Trouble, Blazing Brat, Hot and Dangerous, Ritzaphenia and Liz’s Image complete the order of finish.
Lennilu and Kingsolver were scratched, and Shane’s the Brains was an Also Eligible but did not draw in.
Lennilu won the FTBOA Florida Sire Desert Vixen Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park.
Quiet Street paid $6.84 (3.44, 2.84) for the win. Snow Face Princess gave $3.56 (2.68) for place and Believe In Magic paid $8.46 for show.
Bred in Kentucky, Quiet Street is the daughter of Street Boss out of Serene, by Tapit.
The chestnut filly broke her maiden at first asking going 5-1/2 furlongs on firm turn August 13 at Saratoga. She now has a perfect record of two wins in two starts with earnings of $637,100.
QUOTES
Winning jockey Junior Alvarado (Quiet Street) (This was his first stakes victory at Kentucky Downs): “Broke my maiden last year, and now the stakes on a pretty nice filly.
“She’s a filly; she has to do it whenever she’s ready. So, I was just biding my time, just making sure for when she was ready for me that I would have horse under me. And that’s what we did today. I kind of showed her the way when we turned for home, and she was very powerful.”
(Do you expect her to run farther?) “That’s what we always thought. We weren’t expecting her to win first time out (at 5 1/2 furlongs at Saratoga). Now you have to go into stakes company right away. This was a perfect race, 6 1/2, a little more ground, which we knew she’d appreciate. But I think eventually two turns might be the goal for her.”
(Always gives you confidence wearing the blue Godolphin silks) “Absolutely. I knew I was going in with a lot of horse there.”
Michael Banahan, director of bloodstock for owner-breeder Godolphin USA: “She got plenty of experience in her last race. She got pinched back at the start, got in a little bit of trouble and had to fight through a bit of traffic, came wide like she did here today. So at least she got a lot of experience out of that race, showed a good turn of foot as well. Looked like a little bit of extra distance would help her.
“She broke well today but just didn’t have the early ‘toe’ of some of the others. But she still had a nice position. When Junior got her, he said she was a bit green and looking around or whatever. But once he got her out, she leveled off. She finished up the hill nicely, so it was a very pleasing result. Very happy with the way she performed, 2 for 2, a filly doing that is impressive.”
So what now? “That’s a good question. Look, if she wants to stretch out a little bit more, I suppose maybe look at Breeders’ Cup. Not too sure. (Keeneland’s) Jessamine might come a little quick, and we got another filly for that. We’ll get her back home and regroup and see what we need to do with her. But she’s certainly done us proud at the moment anyway.”
