Rosa's Miracle set to debut
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Last September, Rosa’s Miracle was the most expensive hip of the Fasig-Tipton California Yearling Sale, selling for $250,000 to Pete Parrella’s Legacy Ranch.
On Friday at Del Mar, Rosa’s Miracle is part of the first juvenile event of the track’s summer meeting, a five-furlong maiden race for statebred 2-year-old fillies. Rosa’s Miracle is part of a field of 10 in the fifth race on a 10-race program.
“We think this is a good jumping off point,” trainer John Sadler said. “We’re looking forward to getting her going.”
Rosa’s Miracle is by the Kentucky-based stallion Corniche and is a half-sister to Carmelita’s Man, the winner of three turf stakes for California-breds at Del Mar and Santa Anita in 2022 and 2023. Sadler and Parrella considered starting Rosa’s Miracle on turf for her first start. The surface is very likely to be part of Rosa’s Miracle’s career.
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“She’s got a nice, pretty stride,” Sadler said. “She looks a little two-turnish. I’m not 100 percent about five-eighths.”
Rosa’s Miracle drew post 6 and will be ridden by Joel Rosario.
Three of her principal rivals are the first-time starter Looks Like N Angel, the stakes-placed Tijuana Money, and Sauced Up, who was second in a maiden race for statebred fillies at Santa Anita on June 13.
Looks Like N Angel, by McKinzie, has worked quickly at times in recent weeks for trainer Peter Eurton, while Tijuana Money was second by 1 1/2 lengths to the undefeated Caps and Carnage in the $46,850 Turf Paradise Open Spring Futurity at five furlongs against males in Arizona on May 2.
Tijuana Money was trained by Juan Pablo Silva at the time and has since been sent to Peter Miller.