Limited View looks to right ship in optional claimer

Limited View’s last 10 races, and 11 of her 13 career starts, have come in stakes company. On Friday at Laurel Park, she will drop into a third-level optional-claiming sprint in an attempt to get back into the win column.

Purchased for $5,200 by owner and trainer John Salzman Jr. at the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale in Timonium, Md., Limited View is a five-time winner and an earner of $266,000. The quick but notoriously quirky daughter of Freedom Child has had difficulty finishing off her races and has not won in six starts since Jan. 27, 2018.

Limited View is eligible for the Friday race because two of her three stakes wins – the Maryland Million Lassie and the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship – came in Maryland-bred or -sired company. Her last win came in the open Marshua Stakes at Laurel.

Race 4 on Friday looks like a good spot for Limited View, a local favorite because of her blazing speed, to show what she can do.

Race 9 at Laurel on Friday is the first leg of the Stronach 5. The $8,000 claiming race for 4-year-olds and up who have not won since Aug. 1 has a wide-open field of 10.

Federal Walk and Young American should guarantee a lively pace in the one-turn mile, which could set the table for the late-runners Promote and Huntin’theholidays. If either Federal Walk or Young American scratches, the other becomes more of a danger.