Interstatedaydream eyeing Woodbine Oaks after Black-Eyed Susan victory
BALTIMORE – Interstatedaydream very well could have an international daydream in her future.
Her trainer, Brad Cox, on Saturday said that Interstatedaydream had come out of her Black-Eyed Susan victory on Friday here at Pimlico in good condition, and that owing to her being an Ontario-bred, “something at Woodbine could be in play.”
The premier race for 3-year-old fillies at Woodbine is the Grade 1, $500,000 Woodbine Oaks on July 24. It’s at the same 1 1/8-mile distance at which Interstatedaydream won the Black-Eyed Susan, but of course it would necessitate a move to a new surface, as the Woodbine Oaks is run on Tapeta. Nominations to the Woodbine Oaks are due June 1. The prep for the Woodbine Oaks is the Grade 3, $150,000 Selene at 1 1/16 miles, also on Tapeta, on July 2.
Interstatedaydream has run five times, all on dirt, winning three. She earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 91 for the Black-Eyed Susan.
“She looked great out of the race,” said Cox, who said Interstatedaydream would return to Churchill Downs on Sunday.
Adare Manor, who finished second as the favorite in the Black-Eyed Susan, also was well the morning after the race, according to trainer Sean McCarthy, who said Adare Manor would return to Santa Anita on Tuesday.
The news was less certain for Beguine, who set the pace but then retreated quickly in the final furlong, with jockey Jose Ortiz pretty much pulling her up, finishing 12th of 13. She walked off the track fine, and a post-race check revealed nothing amiss, trainer Dan Peitz said Saturday.
“I thought she might have broken down, and then when the jockey didn’t get off of her I thought maybe she bled, but we scoped her and she didn’t bleed,” Peitz said. “I’m confused.
“The main thing is she jogged up good this morning,” said Peitz, referring to Beguine being jogged shortly, with merely a groom at the shank, in the stable area, something many trainers do the day after a race.
Peitz said Beguine would leave for Churchill Downs on Sunday.