Slammed in light training for return to California
Slammed, winner of the Grade 2 TCA Stakes at Keeneland in October, has resumed training at Sunland Park in New Mexico with the expectation she will race in California later this year.
A 5-year-old New Mexico-bred mare, Slammed has not started since she finished last of 12 in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 5. She set the pace in that seven-furlong race before fading through the stretch.
“She just came back into training,” trainer Todd Fincher said earlier this week. “It’s easy, light training.
“The goal is to go back to California. We’re looking for one more big year from her.”
Slammed has won 7 of 13 starts and earned $557,030. She won five stakes, all for New Mexico-breds, in 2021 and 2022 before she was sent to California last summer. Slammed won an allowance race at Del Mar and finished a game second in the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap there before the career-defining win in the TCA Stakes at six furlongs.
Fincher trains Slammed for the partnership of Brad King, Stan and Suzanne Kirby, and Barbara Coleman. Fincher and King bred Slammed, who is by the Bernardini stallion Marking.
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