Finley'sluckycharm eyes TCA as prep for BC Filly and Mare Sprint
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Finley’sluckycharm equaled a record by winning three stakes at the Churchill spring meet, after which trainer Bret Calhoun sought bigger game by pointing the star 4-year-old filly to the Grade 1 Ballerina on the Aug. 26 Travers undercard at Saratoga.
But Finley’sluckycharm failed to make the Ballerina – she missed training with a lower-leg strain that since has healed. Calhoun now is aiming at the Oct. 7 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland as a prep for the BC Filly and Mare Sprint.
“She strained something in her left hind,” Calhoun said. “Although we sent her for a bone scan and tried to pinpoint what the problem was, we never really got a definite diagnosis. It was all pretty minor, but enough that we had to regroup with her. Everything’s gone really well since we got her back to the track.”
Before dawn Friday, Finley’sluckycharm breezed five furlongs in 1:01.80 at Churchill in her second work since her return. The daughter of Twirling Candy is one of a handful of horses to win three stakes at a single Churchill meet after sweeping the Roxelana, Winning Colors, and Chicago.
