Glass Ceiling targeting Bed o' Roses Stakes
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Charlton Baker likes the idea of waiting two months to run Grade 3 Distaff Handicap winner Glass Ceiling in the Grade 2, $300,000 Bed o’ Roses Stakes on June 10 at Belmont. He just hopes his mare sees it the same way.
Baker said Glass Ceiling came out of her five-length victory in Saturday’s Distaff Handicap “super.”
“She always eats everything,” he said. “By the time I got back to the barn [Saturday], she was done eating.”
Baker said Glass Ceiling can get on the muscle and if he feels he can’t keep her on the ground until June, then there is the Grade 3, $150,000 Vagrancy on May 14.
The Distaff was Glass Ceiling’s fourth consecutive victory. She earned a career-best 98 Beyer Speed Figure.
Meanwhile, trainer Chad Brown didn’t have much of an excuse for heavily favored Search Results’s third-place finish.
“Maybe she was a little bit rusty, maybe she didn’t care for that track the way it was” Saturday, Brown said. “She was climbing around behind the dirt and got discouraged. I want to chalk it up to that. She trained really good coming into the race. Hopefully, we can get her back on track.”
Brown said he would point Search Results to the Grade 2, $200,000 Ruffian on May 8.