Medoro likely to run in Providencia, says Eurton
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ARCADIA, Calif. - Recent stakes wins on turf by Medoro and Stay Hot at Santa Anita have left trainer Peter Eurton pondering how to campaign the promising 3-year-olds this spring.
Medoro won the China Doll Stakes at a mile for fillies on March 10 in her first start of the year, remaining unbeaten in three career starts.
Owned by Lee and Susan Searing, Medoro is likely to start in the Grade 3 Providencia Stakes, a $100,000 race at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Santa Anita on April 20. Eurton has considered the Grade 2 Appalachian Stakes at a mile on turf at Keeneland on April 6, but said on Sunday that the Providencia is preferred because of the timing.
Medoro, by Honor Code, has won three races and earned $156,600.
Stay Hot, a ridgling by Summer Front, won his second stakes of 2024 in Saturday’s $98,000 Pasadena Stakes at a mile, racing near the front throughout and holding off Guy Named Joe to win by a head.
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“They’re both such nice individuals,” Eurton said of Medoro and Stay Hot.
Stay Hot is under consideration for the $100,000 Singletary Stakes at a mile on turf at Santa Anita on April 28, or the Grade 2 American Turf Stakes, a $600,000 race at 1 1/16 miles on turf for 3-year-olds at Churchill Downs on May 4, the same day as the Kentucky Derby.
Eurton described the American Turf “as a little bit bold.” The race will bring together leading 3-year-old turf runners from the Midwest and East Coast. The Singletary Stakes is likely to consist entirely of California-based runners.
Later this year, Eurton has major turf derbies at Del Mar in the summer, and fall meetings at Santa Anita and Del Mar as goals for Stay Hot.
Stay Hot has won 4 of 7 starts and earned $236,940 for the partnership of Exline-Border Racing, Burns Racing, SAF Racing, the family of the late Brereton Jones and William Hudock.
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