Elysea's World transferred to Baltas following sale

Elysea’s World, the winner of three Grade 3 stakes in the last year, all in Florida and New Jersey, has joined trainer Richard Baltas’s stable at Santa Anita after being bought for $500,000 earlier this month.

Elysea’s World, 5, has won 6 of 22 starts and earned $566,222. Elysea’s World was bought at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale and is now owned by Abbondanza Racing, Jerry McClanahan, and Chris Dunn, Baltas said. Elysea’s World was previously trained by Chad Brown for Sheep Pond Partners and All Pro Racing.

Baltas said on Friday that Elysea’s World will not race until the winter-spring meeting at Santa Anita, which begins on Dec. 26.

“She’s going to start training soon,” he said.

An Irish-bred who won her career debut in a maiden race in France in 2015, Elysea’s World had her best season in 2018, winning half of her six starts. All three wins came in Grade 3 stakes – the Suwannee River at Gulfstream Park in February, the Matchmaker at Monmouth Park in July, and the Violet at Monmouth on Sept. 1.

In her last start for Brown, Elysea’s World was eighth in the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine on Oct. 13.