Search Results points to Gazelle Stakes as next start

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Search Results passed a class test by winning Saturday’s $250,000 Busher Invitational Stakes at Aqueduct. Next month, she’ll get tested for distance when she attempts 1 1/8 miles for the first time in the Grade 3, $250,000 Gazelle Stakes on April 3.

Search Results, whose only previous start was a six-furlong maiden win at Gulfstream on Jan. 3, was able to outfinish Miss Brazil to win the one-mile Busher by a half-length. It was nearly six lengths back to The Grass Is Blue in third.

Search Results ran a mile in 1:39.75 and earned an 84 Beyer Speed Figure.

“For only her second start, shipping and stretching out against some nice horses, some proven stakes winners, she really stepped up and ran well,” said Chad Brown, who trains Search Results. “She didn’t switch leads in the lane, she’s got some things to work on, but she’s got a lot of raw talent. She passed this test at a mile. We’ll give her the opportunity to go around two turns now, most likely in the Gazelle.”

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Brown also trains The Grass Is Blue, who was cutting back to a mile after winning the Busanda at 1 1/8 miles on Jan. 24. Brown said The Grass Is Blue is also likely to run in the Gazelle.

“She probably appreciates more pace in front of her,” Brown said. “She was up close tugging along a little in between horses, she might have had her momentum broke just a little bit there and sort of flattened out. I was very pleased she was at least able to hang in there for third. I liked her two-turn race better.”

Tony Dutrow, the trainer of Busher runner-up Miss Brazil, said he would keep his filly at races up to a mile. He said he will try to get Miss Brazil to the Grade 1 Acorn at Belmont on June 5 with a potential start in between. Dutrow said he is not interested in shipping out of town, so he would like to find an allowance race early in the Belmont meet if possible.

“The Acorn could be an opportunity for her at a Grade 1,” Dutrow said. “I’m open-minded as far as how good she is.”