Belmont Park
Saratoga likely next for Terra Promessa
Kim Pratt Terra Promessa cruises to victory in the Allaire duPont Distaff on Saturday.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Terra Promessa, the 7 1/2-length winner of the Grade 3 Allaire duPont Distaff last Friday at Pimlico, will be kept in two-turn races, meaning she’ll skip the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps at Belmont Park on Belmont Stakes Day and likely target Saratoga.
The two opportunities for Terra Promessa at Saratoga are the Grade 3, $200,000 Shuvee on July 30 and the Grade 1, $700,000 Personal Ensign on Aug. 26. Both races are run at 1 1/8 miles around two turns.
Trainer Steve Asmussen said he was glad to see Terra Promessa prove that she was not just an Oaklawn Park horse. Five of her previous six victories came at Oaklawn.
Asmussen said Sunday that Terra Promessa was going to get a little freshening at her owner’s Stonestreet Farm in Kentucky.