Champagne Room taking shot at Sorrento

DEL MAR, Calif. – The maiden Champagne Room was supplemented to Saturday’s $200,000 Sorrento Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on Wednesday at a cost of $2,000. For trainer Peter Eurton, making the investment was an easy decision.

“She’s doing too good,” he said.

Champagne Room will be part of a small field in the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes, which is run at 6 1/2 furlongs. The race is expected to be led by Miss Southern Miss, the runner-up in the Landaluce Stakes at Santa Anita on July 9.

Champagne Room finished second to Morganite, beaten 1 1/2 lengths, in her only start, a maiden race at five furlongs here July 16. From Eurton’s perspective, the race was too short for Champagne Room.

“The five-eighths race was like a work,” Eurton said. “She didn’t get to run much. She galloped out well.”

By Broken Vow, Champagne Room races for Sharon Alesia, Joe Ciaglia, and the Exline-Border partnership. She was purchased for $310,000 at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. sale of 2-year-olds in training in April.

The prospective field for the Sorrento includes the maiden-race winners Auntjenn and Back Off along with Unforgivable U, who was third in the Juan Gonzalez Memorial Stakes at the Oak Tree at Pleasanton meeting on July 2.

Morganite will miss the race because of illness and will be pointed for the $300,000 Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 3, trainer John Sadler said.

◗ The $150,000 La Jolla for 3-year-olds on turf also will be run Saturday. Among those expected for the Grade 2 race are the top two finishers from the Oceanside Stakes on opening day, Monster Bea and Moonlight Drive.