OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Richard Violette already knew he had a good grass filly in 2-year-old One and Twenty, so he took a shot and ran her on the dirt in the Grade 1 Frizette.
Violette's filly, a longshot, finished a non-threatening fourth.
"She showed us that she is a turf horse," Violette said. "She spun her wheels for a mile and a sixteenth, but she deserved a shot."
That effort shouldn't be held against One and Twenty when she returns to the grass on Sunday at Aqueduct as the likely favorite in the $75,000-added Miss Grillo.