Promise Me Silver Heads Letellier
Trainer Bret Calhoun has been a roll recently with juvenile fillies – including a one-two finish in Sunday’s $100,000 Trapeze Stakes at Remington Park – and he hopes to carry that momentum into Saturday’s $50,000 Letellier Memorial with Robert Luttrell’s Promise Me Silver. A Texas homebred daughter of promising young stallion Silver City (also a Calhoun trainee), the gray 2-year-old returned from a five-month layoff to be win Retama Park’s $75,000 Texas Stallion Stakes on Nov. 15. In June, Promise Me Silver won the Listed $100,000 Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs following a runaway debut maiden victory at Lone Star Park in May. Robby Albarado rides from post two.
Promise Me Silver has five competitors, but none look as formidable as Glenmare Farm’s I’m a Looker and Midwest Thoroughbreds’ True to You. From the barn of Patrick Dupuy, I’m a Looker was a quick winner of a five-furlong maiden at Churchill Downs before running second in a six-furlong allowance to stakes-placed Dale Romans trainee Taylor S on Nov. 29. The swift daughter of Henny Hughes will have the services of Brian Hernandez, Jr., from post three.
Tom Amoss trainee True to You has been well thought of since her fine debut win in a turf sprint at Indiana Grand in August. Subsequently placed in graded company in two consecutive stakes – one on dirt and the other turf – the daughter of Scat Daddy retreated into a six-furlong allowance back at Indiana Grand and won with authority. James Graham picks up the mount on the expected stalker and will ride from the outside post six.
The Letellier field is completed by Naveed Chowhan’s maiden claiming winner Jugni (Miguel Mena, rail), James Miller’s maiden Carolina Jasmine (Florent Geroux, post four) and Sharon Foley’s allowance winner Guessed Right (Marcelino Pedroza, post five).
Source: Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots