Flashy maiden winner Caroline's Girl transferred to Joseph
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The 2-year-old filly Caroline’s Girl, a visually impressive debut winner of a Texas-bred maiden race on June 14 at Lone Star Park, has been sold and transferred to trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. The filly arrived in Saratoga over the weekend and will be pointed to the Grade 3, $225,000 Adirondack Stakes here Aug. 2.
Caroline’s Girl, a daughter of Into Mischief, sling-shotted from eighth to first while five to six wide in a five-furlong maiden race that she went on to win by 8 1/4 lengths. She was trained by George Bryant and owned by Adam Blick’s Blick Stables.
Blick stayed in for a piece. The owners who bought into her are BAG Racing Stables, The White House Stables, and WSS Racing. The partnership was put together by Mark Cornett of C2 Racing, and he serves as the racing manager for the filly.
“She got a pretty good sheet number,” Joseph said. “He bought her off the visual and the sheet number.”
Meanwhile, Joseph said Monday that White Abarrio remains on target for the Whitney on Aug. 8. Joseph said he believes White Abarrio simply didn’t care for the sloppy track at Churchill, where he finished fourth to Magnitude in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster.
“I definitely believe it was the track. He had never gone two turns in the slop, so you had to try it once,” Joseph said. “We won’t do it again. He was there. There was no backup plan. He had run in the slop twice before, and one time it was one turn in the Cigar Mile, where he finished third.”
Joseph said that Solitude Dude, seventh in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens, will point to the Grade 2, $250,000 Amsterdam on July 31. In the Woody Stephens, Solitude Dude dueled with Englishman through a half-mile in 43.87 seconds. Englishman kept on going to win by 5 3/4 lengths while Solitude Dude was beaten 20 1/2 lengths.
“The main thing is we won’t have Englishman breathing down our throat,” Joseph said.
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