Bron and Brow, Free Like a Girl wins Louisiana Futurity divisions
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Bron and Brow needed most of the long Fair Grounds homestretch to drive past pacesetting Charco, but with an assist from jockey Adam Beschizza, the odds-on favorite scored in the $102,529 colts and geldings division of the Louisiana Futurity.
Bron and Brow ($3.80) looked poised to breeze past Charco in upper stretch, but the leader, off splits of 22.09 and 45.59, stayed on stoutly. Bron and Brow finally made the lead at the furlong pole, drawing away in the final 50 yards to post a 2 3/4-length victory, running six furlongs on a fast track in 1:10.85. Charco finished more than six lengths clear of third-place Big Sully, who had 10 lengths on That One Guitar. Pocket Money was pulled up and vanned off the course.
Mark Casse trains Bron and Brow for owner Gary Barber. From the first crop of the sire Gormley, Bron and Brow, bred by Jay Adcock and Hume Wornall, is out of Changing Vista, by Changeintheweather. Purchased for $200,000 earlier this year at a breeze-up auction, Bron and Brow debuted finishing third in a Del Mar maiden race while trained by Peter Miller before coming into the Casse barn to run a troubled second in the Louisiana Champions Day Juvenile on Dec. 4.
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In the fillies division, with an estimated purse of $112,000, 6-5 favorite Free Like a Girl stormed to the lead in midstretch and cruised to an easy victory over Wholelottamo, winning by 6 1/4 lengths.
Free Like a Girl won for the fifth time in 10 outings, four of those wins coming in stakes races, three offering a six-figure purse. Free Like a Girl won the Shine Young at Evangeline, the Louisiana Jewel at Delta by some 18 lengths, and the open My Trusty Cat, also at Delta. Cutting back from one mile to six furlongs, Free Like a Girl closed with a purpose but could only finish second Dec. 4 in the Champions Day Lassie, but she made short work of seven rivals Friday under Pedro Cotto Jr.
Free Like a Girl ($4.60) broke on top, but Serape, coming through on the rail, displaced her on the lead and set splits of 22.33 and 46.29 while hounded by Won Day. Cotto stalked the leaders to the quarter pole, Free Like a Girl drawing alongside at the three-sixteenths pole and racing clear by the furlong grounds, the race well in hand. Wholelottamo came late for second as Serape stayed on to edge Won Day for third. The winner clocked 1:11.11.
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Chasey Pomier trains the filly and owns her with Gerald Bruno and Carl Deville. Bred by Kim Renee Stover and Lisa Osborne, Free Like a Girl is by the Munnings stallion El Deal and out of Flashy Prize, by Flashy Bull. Bruno purchased the filly at a 2020 yearling auction for just $5,500 and Free Like a Girl is approaching $300,000 in career earnings.
The futurities are restricted to Louisiana-breds kept eligible to the races through a series of payments.