Yellow Ribbon on turf an option for Paradise Woods

CYPRESS, Calif. – Multiple Grade 1 winner Paradise Woods may switch surfaces for her next start.

Trainer Richard Mandella said Wednesday that he may run Paradise Woods in the Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon Handicap at 1 1/16 miles on turf Aug. 4 at Del Mar. Mandella said Paradise Woods also is a candidate for the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on dirt July 29 at Del Mar.

“I’m thinking of trying her on turf,” he said. “Her brother Forest Chatter was only turf. She’s got kind of tender feet.”

Forest Chatter won the California Flag Handicap for California-breds on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita in 2015 and placed in two other stakes for statebreds the following year. Forest Chatter is winless in two starts this year.

Wednesday, Paradise Woods worked five furlongs in 59.40 seconds.

Paradise Woods was third in the Grade 1 Beholder Mile on June 2 at Santa Anita and has never raced on turf in her 10-race career, which includes wins in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks and Grade 1 Beholder Mile at Santa Anita last year.