Sunday Girl in peak form for Correction
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With his multiple stakes-winning sprinter Kant Hurry Love off to the breeding shed, trainer David Duggan is hoping Sunday Girl can fill the void.
More will be learned Sunday when the appropriately named Sunday Girl takes on four rivals in the $125,000 Correction Stakes going six furlongs at Aqueduct.
Sunday Girl, already a winner in New York Stallion Stakes company, comes into the Correction off a pair of open-company allowance wins this winter. Both efforts resulted in her earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 88.
“We were concerned the first time that the large number was a track bias-type thing,” Duggan said. “We knew she’d move forward, how much it was hard to know. She seemed to back it up. Sometimes the move from 3 to 4, they haven’t changed. She seems to have gotten more mature.
“She was always strong, she just lacked mental maturity. That’s why we went with Katie [Davis]. She didn’t need to be bullied.”
Sunday Girl will have to work out a trip from the rail.
Trainer Linda Rice has entered the uncoupled pair of St. Benedicts Prep and Shop Lifting. St. Benedicts Prep is making her sixth start of 2025, having won an allowance at Aqueduct, finished second in the What a Summer at Laurel Park and Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct in January, and then ran third behind Irish Maxima and Royal Spa in the Barbara Fritchie on Feb. 15 at Laurel.
“The winner was very good, the second-place finisher was all over her the whole race,” Rice said. “I don’t think St. Benedicts was in the ideal position. She had a filly glued to her side the whole way and couldn’t break free.”
Rice’s other entrant is Shop Lifting, who comes in off a maiden victory in her 11th career start.
“She likes a little more distance, ideally seven-eighths or a mile,” Rice said. “She has a big pedigree, and I think this is a realistic spot to get some black type.”
Disco Ebo was favored in an allowance race on Feb. 6 at Aqueduct, but stumbled at the break and unseated Jose Lezcano.
“She grabbed her heel pretty good, but the groom really worked on it nicely, got it healed up, and she’s training brilliantly,” trainer Butch Reid said. “We should get a good race.”
With Lezcano committed to ride St. Benedicts Prep, Abner Adorno is up from Parx Racing to ride Disco Ebo.
The Brazilian-bred Neverwalkalone has raced on turf and synthetic in four starts in the United States. Trainer Paulo Lobo said he wants to try her on dirt, a surface on which she ran twice in Argentina, with a win and a third-place finish. Lobo said he would prefer the race be longer than six furlongs.
The Correction is carded as race 2 on a nine-race card that begins at 1:10 p.m.
Following Sunday’s card, racing on this circuit goes to three days a week (Fridays through Sundays) through the remainder of March.
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