Anythingyoucando makes stakes debut in Distaff Handicap

Horses who last raced in Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, and Minnesota are in New Mexico for Saturday night’s one-mile, $55,000 Downs at Albuquerque Distaff Handicap. The 121-pound highweight is the Churchill Downs shipper Anythingyoucando.

The field of seven fillies and mares is competitive and includes the stakes winners Bella Anatola, Bright Town, Warrens Puppy Love, and Caviar Kitty, who made her most recent start at Canterbury Park in Minnesota.

Distaff Handicap (Race 6)

KEY CONTENDERS

Anythingyoucando, by Curlin
Last 3 Beyers: 66-69-84

◗ The Kentucky-based mare will be making her stakes debut off a fourth-place finish in a first-level allowance June 30 at Churchill. The race was a one-turn mile, and she will move back to two turns Saturday. Anythingyoucando was a 10-length maiden winner at two turns last year at Lone Star Park.

◗ Anythingyoucando races for her trainer, Steve Asmussen, and will be ridden by Alfredo Juarez Jr. Earlier this year, Asmussen and Juarez teamed up to win the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Park Derby with Hence.

◗ Anythingyoucando could get a stalking trip behind such rivals as Alizarin Beauty, Bright Town, and She’s Reddy, who enters off a sprint start at Prairie Meadows in Iowa.

Warrens Puppy Love, by Mongol Warrior
Last 3 Beyers: 65-59-71

◗ She will seek her second straight stakes win, following a June 11 victory in the $30,000 Molly Brown at Arapahoe Park in Colorado. The start came over six furlongs. She was up for a nose win in 1:10.80.

◗ Warrens Puppy Love is stretching back to two turns. Last year, she missed by a neck in the Albuquerque Distaff, won by Exposure. That race also came at this one-mile distance.

◗ Tracy Hebert has the mount for trainer Nancy Summers.