Broadway Run holds off late challenges in Coronation Cup
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With only two starts on her résumé, Broadway Run was giving away a ton of experience to her nine rivals in Monday’s $100,000 Coronation Cup at Saratoga. But it was Broadway Run’s abundant speed that proved the great equalizer and that ultimately paved the way to her three-quarter-length victory over Originator in the 5 1/2-furlong turf dash for 3-year-old fillies.
With Luis Saez aboard for the first time and breaking from the extreme outside, Broadway Run was full of run from the outset, sprinting clear in the opening sixteenth. Saez nursed the lightly raced filly’s speed into the stretch, saving enough to withstand late bids from both Originator and Lady Suebee once setting her down for the final drive.
Originator, stakes placed at Woodbine in her previous start, rallied four wide into the stretch, loomed boldly near the sixteenth pole, but could not sustain the bid. She in turn held a neck advantage at the wire over Lady Suebee, who also had every chance through the final furlong while racing between horses at the end.
Broadway Run, a daughter of Prospective, is owned by Curragh Stables and trained by John Terranova. A 50-1 winner of her career debut this spring at Belmont, she paid a mere $13.40 capturing her stakes bow after completing the distance in 1:03.67 over the Mellon Course officially rated as good.
“The young fillies, when they’re fast, they’re fast – so sometimes experience doesn’t matter as much,” said Terranova. “She’s a good-minded filly and she’s done really well since her second race. She’s just gone forward mentally and physically since she’s gotten here. She’s quick and smart and composed, and I was just hoping she’d break well. She had to break well from out there to stay out of trouble.
"She was able to make the lead easy enough and although they were coming, I knew she waits a little bit on horses. And Luis is a good, strong rider so I figured he’d pick her up and get her through the wire as best she could.”