Promise Me Silver returns in allowance
Trainer Bret Calhoun has been hoping for an allowance race to fill for Grade 3 winner Promise Me Silver for more than a month, as she has been training forwardly for her first start since September.
“She’s all dressed up with nowhere to go,” Calhoun said last week, noting that it was looking like she was going to have to jump right into the stakes ranks for the Winning Colors at Churchill Downs.
But now, Promise Me Silver has an allowance engagement. She runs in Friday’s second race at Louisiana Downs. Promise Me Silver will be launching her 4-year-old season in the no-conditions allowance for fillies and mares at six furlongs.
“She’s trained fantastic,” Calhoun said Wednesday of Promise Me Silver, who races for Myrna and Robert Luttrell. “She’s been ready to run for quite a while now. She looks great physically, is doing very well. I look for a big race.”
Promise Me Silver won the first eight races of her career, including last year’s Grade 3 Eight Belles at Churchill. She last raced on Sept. 6 and was off the board in the Grade 2 Prioress at Saratoga.
“She got sick last fall,” Calhoun said. “She had gotten pneumonia. We gave her an extended period off.”
Richard Eramia has the mount on Promise Me Silver, who will break from the rail.
“She’s a pretty versatile filly,” Calhoun said. “I think she can be on or off [the pace]. She’s proved that multiple times.”
The five-horse field also includes stakes winners Synapse and Diamond.