Gyarmati has pleasant dilemma with 2-year-olds

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Leah Gyarmati sent out a pair of 2-year-old winners in a seven-day span earlier this month over the inner track and now has the task of deciding whether to try them in stakes or wait for the often-hard-to-find allowance race.

On Dec. 13, In Equality won a 1 1/16-mile maiden race by a neck for Gyarmati, earning a 73 Beyer Speed Figure. A son of Quality Road, In Equality had lost his first two starts, both on turf.

In Equality is nominated to the Grade 3, $200,000 Jerome Stakes here Jan. 2 and could run there “if he’s doing well,” Gyarmati said.

Gyarmati said that Junior Alvarado told her In Equality “had a lot more.”

“He just was running a little green and was hesitant, that’s why he had to get after him like he did,” Gyarmati said. “He thought it was a nicer race than it looked.”

Last Saturday, Gyarmati sent out Adventist to an 11 1/4-length debut victory in a split division of a 2-year-old maiden race. He ran six furlongs in 1:11.84 and earned a 74 Beyer. His time was 0.09 seconds faster than the time of Moon Over a Beauty, who won the other division. Adventist is a son of Any Given Saturday.

“I liked him a lot,” Gyarmati said. “He had been training great; everybody that’s been on him loved him. Obviously, I wasn’t thinking that he’d win by that margin, but I thought he would run really well. But he might have been in the easier of the two divisions.”

Gyarmati said she might look for an allowance race for Adventist or might train him up to the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers here on Jan. 30.

Both In Equality and Adventist are owned by Jeff Treadway.