No stains on Freudie Anne’s grass record
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though she is a stakes winner on dirt, Freudie Anne may actually be better on turf, a surface over which she is unbeaten.
Freudie Anne will try to remain perfect on the grass Thursday, when she heads a field of nine scheduled to run in the $100,000 Statue of Liberty division of the New York Stallion Stakes at Saratoga. The field for the one-mile race includes Amazing Anne, who just ran second against males in Monday’s Cab Calloway division of the Stallion Stakes.
Tom Morley, the trainer of Amazing Anne said Tuesday he is leaning toward wheeling his filly back, though he would prefer to run her over a firm turf course. It rained heavily in Saratoga on Tuesday.
Freudie Anne won her career debut on turf last September at Belmont Park. She went five starts and eight months without racing over that surface before winning a second-level allowance race for statebreds at Belmont on May 23. In between, she won the East View Stakes over Aqueduct’s inner dirt track by 9 3/4 lengths last December and caught two races that were moved from the turf to the dirt.
Trainer Eddie Kenneally believes going two turns on turf is what Freudie Anne “really wants to do,” and he has been targeting this race for awhile.
Jose Ortiz rides Freudie Anne, the 122-pound highweight, from post 3.
KEY CONTENDERS:
Freudie Anne (Last 3 Beyers: 52-82-72)
Comes off a fifth-place finish behind a couple of these in off-the-turf Stallion Stakes going seven furlongs over a wet surface for which she has shown a dislike.
Won previous turf start on the lead, but Kenneally believes she can rate if need be.
DRF FORMULATOR FACT: No. 3 Freudie Anne. Trainer Eddie Kenneally is 23-6-0-2 with a $2.07 ROI over the past five years going dirt to turf and sprint to route. Click for more details. – Mike Hogan
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“If there’s pace in the race she’ll settle behind some horse … she’s pretty versatile,” Kenneally said.
Dreamboat Annie (Last 3 Beyers: 48-76-72)
Dreamboat Annie was good enough to beat open company at Gulfstream in March and won a division of the Stallion Stakes that came of the turf in June. She is wheeling back 10 days after finishing last while rank in the Coronation Cup going 5 1/2 furlongs.
“The key will be getting her to settle down because she’s very speedy,” trainer Leah Gyarmati said. “Back with New York-breds, this is a good spot to try and go a little longer.”
DRF FORMULATOR FACT: No. 5 Dreamboat Annie. Trainer Leah Gyarmati is 109-1-6-7 with a $0.06 ROI over the past five years in turf routes; 23-0-0-2 going sprint to route on turf. Click for more details. – Mike Hogan
Amazing Anne (Last 3 Beyers: 77-75-68)
Has run twice here already in the first 16 days of the meet, finishing third in a first-level allowance and a hard-closing second to loose-on-the-lead winner Ex Ex Ex when facing males.
Should get a stronger and perhaps more contested pace than she did on Monday.
DRF FORMULATOR FACT: No. 8 Amazing Anne. May return three days after running second in the version of this stakes intended for colts and geldings; trainer Tom Morley is 6-3-0-1 with a $4.20 ROI over the past five years with horses returning in 10 days or less. Click for more details. – Mike Hogan
DRF FORMULATOR FACT: No. 2 Perfect Freud. Trainer Gary Sciacca is 37-0-2-2 over the past five years going dirt to turf and sprint to route. Click for more details. – Mike Hogan
–additional reporting by Mike Welsch