True Cinder seeks third straight win in Vivacious

With back-to-back stakes scores, True Cinder brings a two-race win streak into Sunday’s $75,000 Vivacious Handicap for Ohio-bred fillies and mares on the Belterra Park turf.

Already established as one of the state’s best and most versatile females, she will face some familiar foes in the Vivacious – but also two new ones in the younger Magna Rose and Takechargedelilah – both of whom have recently come back to their home state after doing well against open company.

True Cinder, owned and trained by Mike Rone, blazed her way to a seven-length triumph in the off-the-turf Buckeye Native Stakes last month at Belterra Park. In her previous start she won the Michael G. Mackey Memorial Angenora Stakes at Thistledown by 6 3/4 lengths.

True Cinder, a 4-year-old daughter of Alcindor, has won or placed in 13 stakes, and has won on both dirt and turf, at all three of Ohio’s Thoroughbred tracks, and at distances ranging from six furlongs to 1 1/16 miles. Gerardo Corrales, who rode the filly to her two most recent stakes wins, retains the mount Sunday.

Magna Rose broke her maiden by winning the Norm Barron Queen City Oaks for Ohio-bred 3-year-old fillies by 6 3/4 lengths last month in her first start for trainer Brendan Walsh. It was the fifth outing for the filly, who had finished second in four maiden special weight races from April to June at Golden Gate in California. Following those efforts, she was transferred from Blaine Wright to Walsh for owner Ten Broeck Farm.

Takechargedelilah won two of her first three starts, all against open company, while trained by Todd Pletcher, then finished sixth in the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks. She makes her first start in her home state for new trainer Tom Drury Jr.

La Nina Bronca was second to True Cinder in the Angenora, then won a Belterra allowance by 4 3/4 lengths. The consistent School Board Prez, who is approaching a half-million in earnings, comes off a runner-up effort in the J. William Petro Memorial Handicap at Thistledown.