LCD Ladies ($100.000 Purse)
FG- For Fillies and Mares Three Years Old and Upward Foaled in LA
One Mile and One Sixteenth on the Turf
December 12, 2020
A field of five will be taking part in the LCD Ladies this year, which is part of a big day for LA-breds at FG. We should be glad that we will be able to watch it, because this is not a race that has been run often within the game. It is the first time that the race will be contested since 2016, and since its inception in 2006, it has only been run six times. The likely reason for that figures to be because it didn’t fill. This year it does, so let’s look at the field!
#1- Folsom Tradition (John Henry, ridden by A Beschizza)- A very well bred filly by Cherokee Sunset, Folsom Tradition has won four of 13 races in her career. Three of them have been with John Henry, who showed a lot of confidence in her back in June by paying $225.000 for her. She finished near the back in a couple graded stakes after the sale, but does come out of a win in an optional claimer. Nice, but not why that price was paid. A race like this would be more like it.
#2- Blue Party Rain (Martyparty, ridden by B J Hernandez Jr)- The three year old filly will start in a stake for just the second time in her career. Predominantly, she has run in overnights, with hit and miss success during her career. Her one stake attempt was with the LA-bred tag at EVD in the LA Legends Distaff. She was second of four there, a race won by Folsom Tradition.
#3- Full Of Heart (Arindel, ridden by G Saez)- Her last two races have seen her run on soft turf, and this might be a good spot to mention that the chance to rain here on Saturday is at 56%. In those races, she has one win and one dud, so it could go either way. Otherwise, she has made several stake attempts during her career, but does not have a win in any of them.
#4- Sin City Hip Check (Onlineracingclub.com, ridden by F Geroux)- The hockey fan in me loves the name of this filly, and I should like her even more having been a previous owner of her sire, Phooeys Ideal. The filly has spent a lot of time running in LA-bred stakes, and can claim a win in one of them as back in February she captured the LAPN Starlet. She has been more of a non-factor lately, but I think this is a good spot for her.
#5- Burgoo (Iwin Enterprise, ridden by S X Bridgmohan)- Picked up quite affordably in the June 2020 auction, for just $8.010, or a small fraction for what many yearlings are probably going for this evening. Paid dividends immediately with a win in the $50.000 LA Cup DIstaff, beating Sin City Hip Check along the way. A month later, ran poorly on soft turf in an optional claimer that also saw Blue Party Rain and Full Of Heart. Been idle since that day.
Prediction: 1-3-4-2
— NS
Categories: STAKES ARTICLES, Ungraded
