Beau Recall targets Gamely Stakes

ARCADIA, Calif. - Beau Recall, the winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Royal Heroine Stakes for fillies and mares on turf, will be pointed to the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita on May 26.

She certainly comes from a barn known for success in the $300,000 race at 1 1/8 miles on turf.

Trainer Simon Callaghan won consecutive runnings of the Gamely in 2011 and 2012 with Dubawi Heights and Belle Royale when the race was run at Hollywood Park.

“It’s my race,” Callaghan joked Sunday morning.

Beau Recall won her first graded stakes in the $201,380 Royal Heroine, closing from last in a field of nine to win by three-quarters of a length over Thundering Sky, who had a troubled trip in the final three furlongs.

The Royal Heroine was Beau Recall’s ninth consecutive stakes appearance. In that span, she was second in four races, including a neck loss in the Grade 2 Honeymoon Stakes last June and a nose loss in the Del Mar Oaks last August.

“She deserved it after she ran so many good races to be second and third,” Callaghan said.

Owned by Slam Dunk Racing and Medallion Racing, Beau Recall has won 3 of 12 starts and earned $356,877.

Enola Gray, the 2-1 favorite in the Royal Heroine, finished fourth, beaten 2 1/4 lengths in her first start since a win in the Grade 3 Wilshire Stakes here last July. Enola Gray was sidelined with a “soft tissue” injury in the second half of that year.

Trainer Phil D’Amato said Enola Gray kicked the gate in the moments before the start of the Royal Heroine.

There is a Grade 1 race on the long-term schedule for Fatale Bere, who won the Grade 3 Providencia Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on turf Saturday. Trainer Leonard Powell is targeting the $1 million Belmont Oaks at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Belmont Park on July 7.

Fatale Bere, who won the Surfer Girl Stakes here last October in her American debut, was fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar last November and finished eighth in the Grade 3 Jimmy Durante Stakes later that month.

Powell said Fatale Bere will be considered for the Grade 2 Honeymoon Stakes, a $200,000 race for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on turf, on June 9.