Promise Me Silver looks like gold in Debutante
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Robert G. Luttrell's Promise Me Silver is still without a blemish on her resume after capturing her stakes bow in Saturday's $108,300 Debutante for two-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs. The Bret Calhoun charge tracked the pace four wide as 7-5 favorite and eventual second-place finisher Unbridled Reward posted opening fractions of :22 1/5 and :45 4/5. Promise Me Silver engaged the leader on the far turn, drew even turning for home and emerged with the lead near the top of the stretch. The daughter of Silver City drifted in late, but held on in the end to prevail by 2 lengths. "When I called on her to go after (Unbridled Reward) she did it very quickly," Robby Albarado said. "She's a very talented and very smart filly." Promise Me Silver crossed the wire in 1:11 2/5 going six furlongs on the fast main track. Sent off as the 2-1 second choice, the gray paid $6.20 for the score. |
Unbridled Reward got up for second, 11 1/4 lengths clear of Rousanne in
third. Irish Nuggets, Rachel's Ready and Ol Sanish rounded out the order of
finish.
"I know coming out of Lone Star sometimes they don't give them quite as much
credit but all those guys have their two-year-olds ready early on," said
Calhoun, who saddled the 2013 Debutante winner and Texas-bred Fiftyshadesofgold.
"She broke from the one-hole in her first start and manhandled the group. Then
she came up here and trained forwardly and I knew she had a lot of talent."
Promise Me Silver was exiting a 6 3/4-length victory in her racing debut
against state-breds at Lone Star Park on May 11. With Saturday's victory, she
banked $66,475 to boost her bankroll to $78,355 from just two career starts.
Calhoun hinted that the Grade 3 Schuylerville at Saratoga on July 18 could be
Promise Me Silver's next start.
Promise Me Silver is out of the Macho Uno mare Uno Mas Promesa. Her third dam
is Rainbow Promise, who produced multiple stakes winner Class Above. The gray's
fourth dam is All Things New, who produced Grade 1 scorer Try Something New, and
her female family also boasts the 1989 German two-year-old champion,
Somethingdifferent.
In the other stakes race on the Churchill card, Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC's
Speedinthruthecity was much the best as the even-money favorite in the $65,194
The Steve Asmussen pupil was bottled up around the far turn, eventually found
room to run on the outside and pulled away to a 4 3/4-length victory. With
Julien Leparoux in the saddle, the four-year-old filly covered six furlongs in
1:10 for her second stakes win.
The dark bay daughter of City Zip was entering in here off a fifth-place
finish in the Grade 1 Humana Distaff Stakes over this track last month and now
has a career mark of 14-6-2-2, $335,957.
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