Goldberg, Tannery Pray for Rain

There are two things that trainer Alan Goldberg thinks can help land Richard Santulli’s Tannery in the winner’s circle following the Grade I $750,000 Beverly D. on Saturday at Arlington International Racecourse - a willingness to throw out her last race and rain.

Tannery is one of six Grade or Group I winners in the Beverly D., Arlington’s signature race for female turf horses during its International Festival of Racing, but the 5-year-old Dylan Thomas mare is coming off a last-place finish in the Diana Stakes where fellow Beverly D. entrants Somali Lemonade and Stephanie’s Kitten finished one-two, respectively.

“She’s training great now, you know, so I’m just throwing that last race out,” Goldberg said Friday on his way to the airport for his first-ever Arlington trip. “I’ve trained her a long time now, and earlier in her career I would have regrouped after a race like that, but I know her well enough now to throw the race out and take another shot.”

Rain wouldn’t likely hurt Tannery’s chances, either, as her Grade I win came on yielding ground at Woodbine for the E.P. Taylor, and she also captured the Sheepshead Bay on soft turf last year.

Goldberg said he considered the 1½-mile Grade I Sword Dancer on Sunday at Saratoga for Tannery. She finished fourth in that race last year, but the trainer thought his charge would benefit from the wider turns and 1 3/16-mile distance at Arlington.

Tannery has won seven of 23 starts and has earned $862,392.