Los Alamitos Race Course
Mirth will be pointed to Robert Frankel Stakes
Emily Shields Mirth was entered and scratched from Sunday's Grade 3 Bayakoa Stakes.
CYPRESS, Calif. – Mirth, the winner of the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes on turf at Santa Anita in September, was withdrawn from Sunday’s Grade 3 Bayakoa Stakes at Los Alamitos because of a rain-soaked main track, trainer Phil D’Amato said.
Mirth will be pointed for the Grade 3 Robert Frankel Stakes, a $100,000 race for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Santa Anita on Dec. 28.
Mirth, who was sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 2, has not run on dirt since the summer of 2017 at Delaware Park prior to joining D’Amato’s stable.
“We thought with the weather conditions and the wet-fast track, the smarter plan is to run in the Frankel,” D’Amato said. “She’s fine and she’ll breeze this week.”
