Eternal Search Stakes: Ideal trip under Adams for Little Teddy
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The popular favorite Little Teddy won her second straight inner-turf stakes in Saturday’s $101,000 Eternal Search at Woodbine after another ideal trip under Austin Adams.
Olivia Rose was gunned out of the gate to outrun Little Teddy’s rabbit, Lady in Red, for the lead in the 7 1/2-furlong sprint for Ontario-sired fillies and mares.
Little Teddy ($4.10) took up the chase along the inside in fourth and then made a two-wide bid to join Olivia Rose up front at the quarter pole. She took control in midstretch and went on to score by 1 3/4 lengths, in a time of 1:30.84 over the good ground.
Fashionably Fab, the 5-2 second choice in the 10-horse field, rallied inside to finish another two lengths back in third, just ahead of her stablemate War Painter.
Little Teddy was coming off a rail-skimming, 5 1/2-length tally in the five-furlong Zadracarta Stakes, for which she got a 96 Beyer Speed Figure.
“I actually wasn’t worried about the seven and a half at all,” Adams said. “She’s a very versatile horse. Even in those shorter races, she usually takes time to find her legs, and she comes running at pace, anyways. So, I thought this was going to work out perfectly, and it did.”
A 4-year-old daughter of Frac Daddy, Little Teddy earned $60,000 for York Tech Racing Stable and trainer Santino DiPaola, who bought her out a local yearling sale for $15,000.
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