Higher Truth tries to shed bridesmaid image in Sands Point
ELMONT, N.Y. – Higher Truth, beaten less than a length in three consecutive stakes, will try again to win her first black-type event when she heads a field of eight entered in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Sands Point Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on turf.
Higher Truth, an Irish-bred daughter of Galileo trained by Chad Brown, was third, beaten a half-length in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks. She was second, beaten three-quarters of a length in the Saratoga Oaks, and second, beaten a half-length, in the Jockey Club Oaks.
The Sands Point will be the shortest race for Higher Truth since she finished sixth going this same distance in her debut in March at Tampa Bay Downs.
Brown also sends out Fluffy Socks, who was third in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks last out and second in the Grade 3 Lake George at Saratoga prior to that.
Also entered in the Sands Point were Harajuku, third in the Jockey Club Oaks, Jordan’s Leo, Runaway Rumour, Plum Ali, Our Flash Drive, and Third Draft.