Dolomite gets restarted in competitive allowance
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The lightly raced Dolomite looks to jump-start her career in a second-level allowance/optional $45,000 claiming heat for New York-bred fillies and mares going one mile Friday at Aqueduct.
Dolomite, a 4-year-old daughter of Unified, has two wins from five starts for Alpha Delta Stables and trainer Chad Brown. In July, Dolomite came off a near eight-month layoff to win a first-level allowance for statebreds by 3 1/4 lengths at Saratoga. Catalina Cruiser, the runner-up in that July 25 race, came back to win her next two starts.
Dolomite came out of that six-furlong race to finish second behind Landed in the Fleet Indian Stakes for New York-bred females going 1 1/8 miles on Aug. 25. That was Landed’s third straight win in the Fleet Indian, a race from which the sixth-place finisher Sweet Brown Sugar came back to win two straight races including the Jack Betta Be Rite Stakes at Finger Lakes.
Dolomite got sick shortly after the Fleet Indian and spent a couple of months at the Fair Hill training center in Maryland, a facility that has a hyperbaric chamber. Dolomite worked at Fair Hill five times before joining Brown’s stable at Belmont.
“She got real sick on us. I had to stop on her,” Brown said. “She’s bounced back good, she’s training super, so we figured we’d start her here and then go from there.”
From a timing standpoint, this race could lead to a start in the $150,000 Heavenly Prize Stakes going one mile here on Feb. 22.
Manny Franco rides Dolomite from the rail.
Trainer Ilkay Kantarmaci has the coupled entry of Mosienko and Gone and Forgotten in this spot. Both were entered in a similar condition going six furlongs on Jan. 10. Mosienko ran that day and finished fifth while Gone and Forgotten was scratched. Gone and Forgotten on Jan. 2 won this condition at a mile by a neck over Malu, who was a nose better than Racing Colors.
Both Malu and Racing Colors are in entered in this spot on Friday. Malu, who goes out for meet-leading trainer Linda Rice, also finished second in this same condition on Dec. 7, a half-length behind Call Her Bluff.
Fast and Frisky came off a seven-month layoff to win a first-level allowance going one mile here on Dec. 15. She has two wins and a second from three starts going one mile. Keiber Coa rides for Jorge Abreu.
Racing Colors, trained by Norman Follett, has run in this condition 10 times with two seconds and three thirds, all at big prices. Dalton Brown, who teamed with Follett to win a race on Masterwork ($25.20) last Saturday, rides Racing Colors.
Bernt Again, The Shoe Lady, Kara Para, and Clover Street complete this field.
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