Galiana may go on short rest in My Juliet
Trainer Rodolfo Romero has Galiana in career-best form and is considering striking while the iron is hot in the $75,000 My Juliet Stakes at Parx Racing on Saturday.
Galiana, whom Romero also owns, upset Lady Sabelia to win the $100,000 Skipat Stakes on the Black-Eyed Susan undercard May 15. In her prior start April 18, Galiana rallied from off the pace to win the $100,000 Primonetta. Both six-furlong races were at Pimlico, and she won each of them by 2 3/4 lengths.
On Thursday, Romero said he was not 100 percent committed to running in the My Juliet.
“Right now, yes, I would run, but I want to wait and see,” he said. “Today, she is jumping up and down and acting like she didn’t run. She seems to have come out of the race really good.”
Galiana, a 5-year-old New York-bred, is 13 for 25 with earnings of $519,000.
She’s Ordained finished third, beaten 4 3/4 lengths, in the Skipat and was second to Galiana in the Primonetta. Trainer Timothy Kreiser said Thursday he will be running back on eight days’ rest.
“She’s run some of her best races for me when I’ve brought her back quick,” said Kreiser, who leads the Penn National trainers’ standings and was that track’s leading horseman in 2014. “She won an allowance race at Laurel for me on 12 days’ rest in January. I don’t know why she’s like that, but she is. I really don’t have anything for her until the end of June anyway.”
Tea Time has every right to improve for trainer Michael Matz while making her second start following an extended layoff. Tea Time is 1 for 1 at Parx, having won the Jostle Stakes last year as a 3-year-old.
Tea Time made her turf debut while returning from an eight-month layoff in the License Fee Stakes at Belmont Park on May 1 but tired to finish eighth.