Surfer Girl Stakes next for Summering

Summering, the undefeated winner of the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf last Sunday, is likely to have her next start in the $100,000 Surfer Girl Stakes at Santa Anita in advance of a possible trip to Churchill Downs for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Nov. 2. The Surfer Girl, at a mile on turf for 2-year-old fillies, will be run on Oct. 8.

“She came out of her race well,” owner Craig Bernick of Glen Hill Farm said on Thursday. “The plan is to run her in the Surfer Girl and our hope is she’ll keep doing what she’s doing.

“She’d have to run really well to think about running in the Breeders’ Cup. We want to run if we think we have a shot.”

Trained by Tom Proctor, Summering is unbeaten in two races – a five-length win in a one-mile maiden special weight on turf July 29 and a 1 1/4-length victory at odds of 3-10 in the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf, also at a mile. In the maiden race, Summering led throughout. She stalked the pace for the first half-mile of the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf.

“I really liked her race,” Bernick said of the stakes win. “In her first race, she was inside and our horses don’t typically show that much speed and run that well first time out. I was worried she’d get a little speed crazy.”