Terra Promessa Tops Allaire DuPont Distaff

Multiple graded-stakes winner Terra Promessa looms as the horse to beat in the $150,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff (G3) for older fillies and mares. The 1 1/8-mile stakes is the fifth race Friday.

Stonestreet Stable’s 4-year-old Terra Promessa was a game second last time out in Oaklawn Park’s Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) won by champion Stellar Wind. A daughter of Stonestreet’s 2007 Preakness winner and two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, Terra Promessa is 6-1-1 in 11 lifetime starts, earning $746,100. Until finishing fifth as the odds-on favorite in the Azeri (G2), Terra Promessa had been five-for-five at Oaklawn, including two stakes at 3 and two to kick off her 2017 season.

“It’s five weeks from the Apple Blossom to the Distaff,” Blasi said. “She’s nice. She was second to a champion and ran hard that day. This gave her plenty of time to recover. Stonestreet took her home for a week, let her have some green grass and relax. She doesn’t take a lot of training, so hopefully she repeats those Oaklawn efforts at Pimlico.”

The Joe Sharp-trained Power of Snunner was a close second in Keeneland’s Doubledogdare (G3) in her last start. She has seven wins and 15 seconds in 27 career starts, including nine runner-up efforts in stakes.

Phipps Stable’s Carrumba, last year’s Top Flight (G3) winner at Aqueduct, will try to improve on her fifth and fourth in New York stakes in her two starts this year.

Also in the DuPont’s field of eight fillies and mares are 2017 Top Flight Invitational (G3) winner Mo’ Green; She’s a Warrior, seventh in last year’s Black-Eyed Susan (G2) after finishing third in the Santa Anita Oaks (G1) won by champion Songbird; She’s a True Beauty and Serious Happiness.

The Allaire DuPont winners include 3-year-old filly champions Serena’s Song and Ajina, as well as Stopchargingmaria, who won the stakes in 2015 en route to taking the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1).

Source: Maryland Jockey Club