Miss Serendipity points to Yellow Ribbon
Trainer Ron McAnally’s stable suffered a difficult blow on Friday when Quick Casablanca was sent to a local vet clinic to be treated for colic, the day before a scheduled start in the $200,000 Del Mar Handicap.
Quick Casablanca is expected to recover, but will not race for several months, at best.
Meanwhile, McAnally will send Miss Serendipity in the $200,000 Yellow Ribbon Handicap over 1 1/16 miles on turf on Sept. 1.
Miss Serendipity won the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita on May 26, but was a troubled sixth in the Grade 2 John Mabee Stakes here on Aug. 10.
The Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon will also probably include Parranda, who won the Grade 2 Royal Heroine Stakes on turf at Santa Anita on June 29 and was third in the Grade 2 Clement Hirsch Stakes on Polytrack here on Aug. 2.
The race may include Journey On, who was eighth in an optional claimer on Aug. 7 and was switched from trainer Doug O’Neill to Richard Baltas earlier this month.