Lady Edith ends three-race skid with Floral Park Stakes
Lady Edith ended several months of frustration with a relatively easy three-length victory in Sunday’s $145,500 Floral Park Stakes at Aqueduct.
Sitting a close-up third under Joel Rosario, Lady Edith was able to get off the rail and find running room turning for home and then cruised to the victory without being touched by Rosario’s whip. Too Sexy, last year’s Floral Park winner who set the pace on Sunday, finished second by four lengths over Can’t Buy Love.
Spun Glass and Queen Sheba completed the order of finish. Kept Waiting and Igloo were both scratched, as were main-track-only entrants Frank’s Rockette, Piece of My Heart, and Short Summer Dress.
Christophe Clement trained the first two finishers.
The victory was the fifth from 16 starts for Lady Edith, a 4-year-old daughter of Street Boss owned by Abbondanza Racing and Omar Aldabbagh. Since June, Lady Edith had lost three straight stakes, by a combined 3 1/4 lengths, several with troubled trips.
“She’s a nice filly, but she’s been unlucky,” Clement said. “She has plenty of talent. A nice filly plus Joel Rosario usually works.”
Rosario was riding Lady Edith for the first time. He had her within two lengths of Too Sexy, who under Dylan Davis ran an opening quarter in 23.17 seconds. Coming to the top of the lane, Rosario had his hands full with a filly who was looking to run, but didn’t have the room. When the room developed, the race was over.
“It looked like they were slowing down a little bit in front,” Rosario said. “She was little bit difficult around the turn when I was just trying to hold her a little bit. It looked like she was the best in the race and she put me right there where I wanted to be.”
Lady Edith ran six furlongs over good turf in 1:10.64 and returned $2.90 as the 2-5 favorite.
Clement said Lady Edith and Too Sexy could be considered for the $150,000 Autumn Days at Aqueduct on Nov. 27.
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