Just Talkin brings winning pedigree into allowance
As the Keeneland sale continues and football players take the field for Week 2 of the NFL season, Belmont Park will soldier on with a rather sleepy Sunday card by New York standards.
Race 8 is a first-level allowance for fillies and mares on turf that will feature Lady Shipman’s younger half-sister, Just Talkin, who will try to stay unbeaten while making her second career start. The card also includes a maiden race for 2-year-old fillies.
By this point in her 3-year-old season, Lady Shipman had won eight of her first 10 starts. Now 4, she is 13 for 19 and won the $200,000 Turf Amazon, a five-furlong turf sprint at Parx on Sept. 5.
Like Lady Shipman, Just Talkin was bred by Randall Lowe of Las Vegas, who owns Lady Shipman and other members of her family. In August 2015, he sold Just Talkin to Michael Dubb and partners.
Just Talkin made her career debut for trainer Chad Brown in March at Gulfstream Park going 7 1/2 furlongs on turf, a distance farther than Lady Shipman has ever attempted. Just Talkin rallied from eighth to win a frantic four-horse finish by a neck.
Following that race, Just Talkin did not work again until July 23 at Fair Hill. Following three works there, she was sent to Belmont Park, where she has worked five times since Aug. 17 for her first start against winners.
Mighty Souper has finished third at this level in both of her starts this year for trainer Mark Casse. She was beaten 1 1/2 lengths at Saratoga in her most recent start on Travers Day and fits well against this field.
Brown has a second runner returning from a lengthy layoff in Quinta Verde. An Irish import, she won a Keeneland maiden race by 2 1/2 lengths in her U.S. debut in April 2015. She then worked seven times between November and January. She started up again in June and has 10 works in her current pattern.
Graham Motion will send out Quidura, a German import who is 1 for 2 in her career. She will get Lasix for the first time while making her first start since April.
◗ In It for the Gold looks like a solid favorite in race 6, a 6 1/2-furlong maiden race for fillies. A 2-year-old daughter of Speightstown trained by Rudy Rodriguez, she has finished third in both of her starts, earning Beyer Speed Figures in the 70s.
The field also includes Recollection, a Phipps Stable homebred out of Daydreaming who is trained by Shug McGaughey. Daydreaming won three stakes in 2004-05. Her best foal to race has been the distance turf specialist Imagining, a four-time stakes winner who retired last year at age 7.
Recollection showed speed in her Saratoga debut before tiring to finish eighth.
