Rambunctious Beaute Cachee rallies to take Violet Stakes
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Beaute Cachee was difficult for her rider to handle early in the Violet Stakes and impossible for her rivals to handle in the late stages, breezing to a 3 1/4-length win in the $104,000 Saturday feature at Monmouth Park.
Nik Juarez rode the winner for trainer Chad Brown and owners Madaket Stable, Michael Dubb, and Louis Lannizzaro. Juarez had his hands full as the field went past the finish line for the first time. Beaute Cachee broke well enough and after a half-furlong was set to stalk or press the pace while racing in the clear. Juarez, however, wanted to take the filly back and get covered up. A brief wrestling match ensued, with Beaute Cachee throwing her head, but eventually relented and settled into a good spot, tracking inside from third.
“It seems like she has a very light mouth to her,” Juarez told Monmouth publicity. “I knew that going into the race, so I was prepared for what she might do. I was waiting for her to settle behind the speed, and she did eventually. It really wasn’t a matter of her fighting me early. Really it was more a case of trying to find a mutual agreement to get her to settle down.”
Up front, Join the Dance led on a slow pace, going the first half-mile in 49.08 seconds, at which point Jairo Rendon on Miss Carol Ann, who had been sitting second, decided to quicken the tempo. Going her third quarter-mile in 23.14, Miss Carol Ann put Join the Dance away and led to the quarter pole, but Juarez had shadowed Rendon’s move, and Beaute Cachee came into the homestretch full of run. She collared Miss Carol Ann at the furlong grounds and pushed clear to win easily.
Miss Carol Ann clearly was second, 3 1/2 lengths in front of 33-1 shot Tryinmyheartout, who won a three-horse photo over second choice Veronica Greene and Join the Dance. The winner clocked 1:42.92 for 1 1/16 miles over a firm turf course and paid $4 as the heavy favorite.
Bred in France, Beaute Cachee made her first dozen starts there before being privately purchased and joining Brown’s stable. She was a narrow winner of a first-level allowance May 26 in her American debut and came into the Violet, her first stakes win, after a narrow defeat in a second-level allowance race at Saratoga. Four-year-old Beaute Cachee is by Literato out of Sign and Seal, by Hurricane Run.
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