Mandella waxes Poetic after debut score

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer Richard Mandella came to Del Mar with a promising group of 2-year-old fillies and got his first win with them on Sunday, when Poetic tallied in her debut going 5 1/2 furlongs, a performance that likely will put her in the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Debutante on Sept. 2, Mandella said.

“She trained like a classy filly,” Mandella said. “I thought she might need further, but it was enough. We never zinged her in a work. She was smart enough. She made us think there was even more.”

The seven furlongs of the Debutante “is probably in line for her,” Mandella said.

“Anybody who wins a maiden at this point of the meet with a 2-year-old filly has got to be thinking the Debutante,” he said.