Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin purchases 2-year-old

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin isn’t typically a participant in the early 2-year-old races run on this circuit. He may be this year.

McLaughlin purchased privately the juvenile filly No Limit Babe after she finished second to Luv This Lifestyle at Keeneland on Sunday. McLaughlin purchased the daughter of Artie Schiller on behalf of owners Terry Murray and Paul Braverman.

“You don’t get that many opportunities to buy a horse like that,” McLaughlin said Wednesday at Belmont. “She ran well to be second. It came across my desk. It’s like buying one out of the 2-year-old in training sale, but you’ve already run.”

The NYRA offers $100,000 purses on select 2-year-old maiden races beginning April 18. McLaughlin said he may run No Limit Babe on May 3 at Belmont or he could wait for the first $100,000 maiden race on turf, which is May 24.