Miss New York gains first stakes triumph with Boiling Springs
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Miss New York scored the first stakes win of her career in New Jersey when she won the $100,000 Boiling Springs Stakes on Sunday at Monmouth Park.
Making a sharp far-turn move from the back of a six-horse field, Miss New York powered to the lead in upper stretch of this one-mile, 70-yard dirt race for 3-year-old fillies, beating runner-up Shidabhuti by 2 3/4 lengths. Atthecrossroads finished another 1 1/2 lengths back in third. The winner was timed in a modest 1:44.07 over a fast track.
Miss New York ($6.40) made her first four starts in England and her first seven on turf and synthetic surfaces. Owner AMO Racing and trainer Jorge Delgado tried the filly on dirt at Tampa in her 3-year-old debut, and Miss New York won a first-level allowance race. Miss New York went back to turf and synthetic for her next two starts before finishing an encouraging third on June 10 facing older fillies and mares in the Ladies Secret over the Monmouth main track.
“She’s definitely a dirt horse,” Delgado said. “We weren’t sure at the beginning, and she ran well on turf and on synthetic, so it seems like she’ll run on anything, but I think she will stay on the dirt now.”
While she began her career overseas, Miss New York has a dirt pedigree as a daughter of Good Magic and the Malibu Moon mare Luna Vega. The Boiling Springs pace was far from hot, but it was contested, and jockey Isaac Castillo waited at the back of the pack before making a slingshot move.
“I just let her go and she was strong to the end,” Castillo said.
Shidabhuti, the 13-10 favorite, dropped the bit and faded out of contention before the half-mile marker but found life again approaching the quarter pole and finished decently for the place.
Jockey Samy Camacho, second-leading rider at Monmouth, was taken to an area hospital for evaluation after going down in a two-horse spill in race 4 Sunday. Camacho, aboard Bingo's Girl in a turf sprint, was tracking the pace along the inside when the horse in front of him, Momma Kim, clipped heels with the leader. Momma Kim went down, and Bingo's Girl fell over Momma Kim. Momma Kim's rider, Jorge Gonzalez, reportedly was uninjured. The official chart for the race said both horses walked off the track. Gold Alliance and jockey Jose Ferrer were disqualified for coming over on Momma Kim and causing the trouble.
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