Wonder Gal Likely to Enter Adirnodack

Debut wins are seldom as impressive as the aptly named Wonder Gal's. The daughter of Tiz Wonderful, making her first career start in the six-furlong Lynbrook Stakes for New York-breds, lagged eight lengths behind the early pace after an opening quarter-mile in 22.19 seconds - an uncommon position for an odds-on 2-year-old. Around the far turn, however, the Leah Gyarmati trainee validated her odds by inhaling the field and drawing off to win by 14 ½ lengths under minimal urging from jockey Taylor Rice.

Wonder Gal is likely to enter the Grade 2, $200,000 Adirondack on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course - run at 6 ½ furlongs - where she will test open company for the first time.

"She's doing great; she breezed very well a couple days ago," said Gyarmati. "I think she wants to go long, but she was very impressive sprinting [in the Lynbrook]. She's a big filly. She's not slow or anything in her breezes, but she's not some speedy thing that takes off from the pole. She's a very relaxed, laid-back filly, so her running style fits her personality."

A loaded field is likely to contest the Adirondack, including other sensational debut winners Angela Renee, a half-brother to Woodward winner To Honor and Serve, and Cavorting, 11-length winner of a maiden race at Belmont Park. Schuylerville runner-up Take Charge Brandi, TTA Sale Futurity winner Vivian Da Bling, and Phoenix Park, a maiden winner at Parx, also are probable for the race.

Gyarmati trains Wonder Gal for Treadway Racing Stable, the same partnership that sent out Sweet Reason to victory in the Grade 1, $500,000 Longines Test on Whitney Day.

"Jeff [Treadway] has been a fan of racing for quite a long time," said Gyarmati. "Our first horse we bought together was five or six years ago, something like that. Every year he's upped the ante a little bit, getting better and better quality horses and getting more and more horses. He did it the right way. He's learning as he goes and each year has gotten a little better."