Beau Recall tops Cox exacta in Fair Grounds' New Orleans Ladies
It was a Brad Cox exacta in the $75,000 New Orleans Ladies Stakes as Beau Recall (IRE) ($10.80, $5.20 and $3.20) displayed a winning turn of foot down the top of the stretch to run down stablemate Sensitive ($4.40 and $3.20) and capture her second stakes triumph of the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots meet.
The Slam Dunk Racing and Medallion Racing-owned daughter of Sir Prancealot (IRE) was guided by Jose Ortiz, who placed her at the back of the pack in the races early stages
while Southern California invader Lady Mamba set opening fractions of 24.21, 48.82 and 1:12.58, with Sensitive sitting a half-length off the pacesetter in second.
At the top of the stretch Lady Mamba duked it out with Sensitive, who led into the final eighth
of a mile, but Beau Recall gunned her down within the last sixteenth. She won by half-length in a time of 1:42.11. Sensitive ran second and
Vagabond Princess ($3.60) finished third.
Completing the order of finish were Lady Mamba, Flower Party (IRE), Coachwhip, Hey Niki, and La Sola Ranger.
“She broke really well and was very alert,” Ortiz said. “We were a little worried before the race because we thought there wouldn’t be much pace but it was decent. It
was very steady and I was able to put her in a good spot. She had good momentum entering the stretch. When I took her out, she just exploded.”
A runner-up behind Mitchell Road in the Albert M. Stall Memorial Stakes last time out, she won the Blushing K.D. Stakes earlier in the meet in her first start for Cox, who won his sixth stakes of the meet in the New Orleans Ladies Stakes.
“She’s solid and has been nothing but consistent since we got her,” Cox said. “She was offered at the January Sale at Keeneland as a broodmare or racing prospect and she didn’t meet the ($385,000) reserve so the owners carried on with her and the plan is to race the rest of the year. We’ll look at trying to pick off another stakes and we’ll consider the race Derby week (Grade 2, $400,000 Longines Churchill Downs Distaff Turf Mile) depending on how it shapes up.”
Beau Recall was previously conditioned by Simon Callaghan for whom she won Royal Herione Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita last April. The New Orleans Ladies Stakes was her
third stakes victory in her career. She has banked a total of $504,912 after cashing a check for $45,000.
Bred in Ireland by Tom Wallace, Beau Recall is out of the Great Commotion broodmare Great d'Argent (IRE).