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Healthy Addiction captures Lady's Secret Pamela C. Ziebarth's HEALTHY ADDICTION (Boston Harbor) tracked the pacesetting Downthedustyroad (Storm and a Half) through opening fractions of :22 4/5, :46 1/5 and 1:10 1/5 during Sunday's $233,500 Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup H. (G2), took over on the outside through a mile in 1:36 2/5 and powered home a 1 1/2-length winner under jockey Victor Espinoza. Trained by John Sadler, the 1-2 favorite paid out $3, $2.60 and $2.10 while finishing 1 1/16 miles on the fast dirt in 1:43 3/5. "She's so professional," Espinoza said. "She loves to run. She's gone (to the sidelines), come back, and she keeps running good races." Downthedustyroad stayed on well for second, returning $6.40 and $2.20 as the 11-1 longshot while ending the $11 exacta ($1). Hollywood Story (Wild Rush) was another 4 1/2 lengths back in third, giving back $2.10 at 5-1 for holding Neuilly (Brz) (Royal Academy) to fourth by a head. Star Parade (Arg) (Parade Marshal) finished another six lengths back fifth. Healthy Addiction passed the million mark with this victory, now owning $1,032,837 in lifetime earnings to go along with a 22-10-6-1 career mark. Among her other six stakes victories are scores in the Santa Margarita Invitational H. (G1), Clement L. Hirsch H. (G2) and last year's Lady's Secret. The five-year-old mare has also placed in Vanity Invitational H. (G1) and Hawthorne H. (G3). Bred in Kentucky by Sequel 98, Healthy Addiction brought $100,000 as a 2002 Keeneland September yearling. The dark bay is out of the Gone West mare Lady Laika and counts as half-siblings five-time stakes victress Arch Lady (Arch), multiple stakes-placed Langoureuse (Gilded Time), an unnamed yearling filly by Cat Thief and an unnamed 2006 colt by Medaglia d'Oro. "I'd say it's 60-40 she'll run in the (November 4) Breeders' Cup (Distaff [G1] as opposed to the November 26 Matriarch S. [G1])," Sadler explained. "I have to study those eastern mares again a little bit and then we'll make a choice. I think I made a mistake last year in shipping too early (for the Breeders' Cup), because the weather was terrible. It rained every day."
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