Hot City Girl has options

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – While owner Sheila Rosenblum and trainer Linda Rice decide whether to race their champion female sprinter, La Verdad, again, their other stakes-winning New York-bred filly sprinter, Hot City Girl, returned to the work tab Wednesday morning.

Hot City Girl, the winner of the Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks and the runner-up in the Grade 1 La Brea on Dec. 26, worked five furlongs in 1:01.80 on the Belmont Park training track Wednesday.

“I was very happy with it; she looked nice,” Rice said. “She’s on schedule for something. If I don’t run La Verdad in the Barbara Fritchie, I’ll maybe run Hot City Girl.”

Hot City Girl also would be eligible for the Biogio’s Rose, a 1 1/16-mile race for New York-bred females here Feb. 7, or the $100,000 Broadway, a six-furlong race for New York-bred females here Feb. 13.

Rice said she would like go to give Hot City Girl a break at some point but is interested in races like the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel on Feb. 13 and the Grade 1 Madison at Keeneland on April 9, both at seven furlongs.