She's Devoted returns from injury in allowance
DEL MAR, Calif. – The lightly raced but promising female turf sprinter She’s Devoted, whose career has been interrupted by injury, returns to action in race 7 on Sunday at Del Mar, a five-furlong turf sprint for first-level allowance runners, or those in for a $40,000 claiming price.
She’s Devoted has a history of running well fresh. She won her debut in January 2020, then was off until last November, when she won an allowance turf sprint at Del Mar. She has not raced since Jan. 16, when fourth in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Sprint at Santa Anita.
“She’s doing good,” her trainer, Richard Baltas, said Friday morning at Del Mar. “She might be a little short. But I don’t think so.”
She’s Devoted, by Grazen, has made her three prior starts in races restricted to California-breds. Her allowance win in statebred company does not count against her for allowance-condition purposes when facing open company, which is applicable Sunday.
“She can run,” Baltas said. “She’s had a few physical issues, but she’s coming back good.”
Grace Adler tunes up
Grace Adler, the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante winner, worked a half-mile in 47.20 seconds, equaling the best time of 33 at the distance, on Friday morning at Santa Anita as she tunes up for the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Starlet on Dec. 4.
Grace Adler was kept out of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies owing to a poor performance in the Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita, which was intended as her final prep for the Breeders’ Cup.
“I had to back off her,” her trainer, Bob Baffert, said Friday morning. “She’s finally coming around. She worked today like she’s back into form.”
◗ Stall applications for Santa Anita’s main winter-spring meeting are due Nov. 22, a week from Monday.