Mazarine or Alcibiades next for Bet She Wins
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The Arlington-Washington Lassie lost its graded status in 2013 and now is merely a listed stakes worth $75,000, barely more than half the purse of a maiden race at Kentucky Downs.
Don’t bother telling that to Bet She Wins.
Bet She Wins powered home to a 9 1/2-length victory Saturday in the Lassie, and her winning time of 1:24.43 for seven furlongs over a slow-playing Polytrack produced a Beyer Speed Figure of 90. That’s the second-highest figure for a 2-year-old of either sex on any surface so far this year.
The one horse with a higher number is Amy’s Challenge. Amy’s Challenge, who got a 91 in a blowout maiden win on dirt, is stabled with trainer Mac Robertson at Canterbury Park. She races Saturday in the Shakopee Juvenile.
As for Bet She Wins, plans are fluid, said trainer Chris Block, but one thing that seems certain is the filly took her race well.
“She came out of it in great shape,” said Block, who trains Bet She Wins, by First Samurai, for owner Bob Lothenbach. “It didn’t take anything out of her, and it might’ve put a little something in her.”
Bet She Wins raced twice on turf before the Lassie and earned a second-start maiden win only via disqualification.
“She’s okay on turf, but she wasn’t real impressive over it,” Block said. “I think you either go to the Mazarine Oct. 9 at Woodbine or take a look at the Alcibiades at Keeneland. We’ll get her [to Keeneland] and get her a work on dirt, and if she breezed dynamite, then maybe you take a shot.”
Block remains high on Captivating Moon despite the colt’s second-place finish Saturday in the Arlington-Washington Futurity. Captivating Moon, a Lothenbach homebred, was beaten only three-quarters of a length despite struggling with Arlington’s Polytrack in a seven-furlong race shorter than his best trip.
“I was surprised he got up for second, and then he galloped out way in front,” Block said.
Captivating Moon won his debut in a two-turn turf race, and Block said he’d like to run the colt in the Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland, but worries Captivating Moon will be excluded if the race oversubscribes. Captivating Moon is by Malibu Moon out of Appealing Storm, by Successful Appeal, and Block said he “wouldn’t mind seeing how he breezes on dirt, too, with the pedigree he’s got.”