De La Rose a wide-open race

Got Stormy, coming off the best two races of her career and the highest last-out Beyer Speed Figure in the field, looms the tepid choice in a wide-open renewal of the $100,000 De La Rose carded at a mile on the turf for fillies and mares who have not won a graded stakes this year.

Got Stormy launched her 2019 campaign with a popular victory against a modest field under high-level optional-claiming conditions March 7 at Gulfstream Park. She continued to move forward in her next two starts, finishing third behind Rushing Fall in the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley and second in the Grade 2 Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill Downs on May 4, for which she received a career-best 100 Beyer.

Got Stormy has trained extremely well since arriving locally in early July.

“She’s doing great, she’s just gotten better and better, although it’s not an easy race, not for the money,” trainer Mark Casse said. “I think her best distance is a mile. And I’ve really been impressed with what I’ve seen from her lately, not only in her last two starts, but the way she’s trained here the past several weeks.”

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A field of 14 was entered for the De La Rose, although three of those – Dawn the Destroyer, Alberobello, and Free Kitty – are listed for main track only.

Got Stormy will face a trio of fillies from the barn of trainer Chad Brown, who entered Zonza, Stella di Camelot, and Pacific Wind.

Zonza, a Group 3 winner sprinting in her native France early in her career, has finished off the board in two U.S. appearances since joining Brown’s barn this season.

Stella di Camelot won the Pebbles Stakes last fall in her U.S. debut but has started just twice since and only once this season, checking in a fast-closing third in the Grade 3 Intercontinental at seven furlongs.

Pacific Wind will return to the turf for the first time since a ninth-place finish in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks during the summer of 2017. She became a Grade 2 winner last year after capturing the one-mile Ruffian over the Belmont main track.

Capla Temptress, a Grade 1 winner at 2 on turf, wheels back in just three weeks for trainer Bill Mott off a popular victory in Delaware Park’s 1 1/16-mile Just a Kiss.

Rock my Love exits a promising North American bow when finishing fourth after setting the pace to midstretch in the Grade 2 Dance Smartly at Woodbine in her first start since October.