Gal About Town Faces Seven in Pocahontas
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Iroquois
Racing Club LLC’s
Gal About Town, unbeaten and untested in her first two career starts,
will face seven rivals in Sunday’s 44th running of the Grade
II, $150,000-added Pocahontas at one mile on the main track at
Churchill Downs.
The
Pocahontas, a “Road to the Kentucky Oaks” Prep Season race, is
co-featured with the $100,000-added Iroquois (GIII) on Sunday’s “Stars of
Tomorrow I” program, which features racing exclusively for 2-year-olds and
kicks off the 21-day Fall Meet at Churchill Downs. The Top 4 finishers
in the Pocahontas will receive 10-4-2-1 points, respectively.
The
Pocahontas is scheduled as Race 8 on the 11-race program and has a post time of
4:05 p.m. (all times Eastern). Post time for the first race is 12:40 p.m.
A
chestnut daughter of City Zip, Gal About Town bested a field of 10 at Monmouth
Park by 3 ¼ lengths in her career debut. She followed up that performance with
an equally-impressive score against allowance company at Keeneland. Gal About
Town, who will be saddled by Jay Severs prior to testing stakes company
for the first time, will break from the outside in post eight under Jesus
Castanon.
Gal
About Town’s main rivals could be Sheldon Nitenson’s Danalake, Claiborne
Farm and Adele Dilschneider’s Sign and Evelyn and Darrell
Yates’ La Song.
Danalake,
trained by Todd Pletcher, is the lone stakes winner in the field and has
yet to be worse than second in her short career. She will break from post four
under Julien Leparoux, a two-time winner of the Pocahontas.
The
Al Stall Jr.-trained Sign is the least experienced filly of the bunch,
but she made her one start count and took a maiden special weight event at
Saratoga by 11 ¾ lengths under Rosie Napravnik, who will be aboard the
filly again Sunday when they break from post six.
Prior
to finishing eighth in the Darley Alcibiades (GI) at Keeneland, La Song
finished just a neck behind Gold Edge in the Arlington-Washington Lassie
(GIII) at Arlington Park. The Wayne Catalano-trained filly will break
from post two under Corey Lanerie.
Another
filly with stakes experience is Live Oak Plantation’s Seasoned
Warrior. The Bill Mott-trained Seasoned Warrior broke her maiden at
Saratoga in August and then ran fourth behind So Many Ways in the
Spinaway (GI). In her most recent start, Seasoned Warrior ran third behind Kauai
Katie in the Matron (GII) at Belmont Park. She will break from the rail in
the Pocahontas under Joel Rosario.
The
field for the Pocahontas, from the rail out, is as follows: Seasoned Warrior
(ridden by Rosario, 118 pounds), La Song (Lanerie, 118), Cloudy in Sandiego
(Terry Thompson, 118), Danalake (Leparoux, 120), Brotherhood Singer (Jon
Court, 118), Sign (Napravnik, 118), Cloudy Vow (Shaun Bridgmohan, 118)
and Gal About Town (Castanon, 118).
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