Secane and Day to Day contest Listed $150K Tempted
Trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr. will be represented by Secane and Day to Day in Friday’s Listed $150,000 Tempted, a one-turn mile for juvenile fillies, at Belmont at the Big A.
Final Furlong Farm’s Secane won her lone outing by 7 3/4 lengths sprinting seven furlongs on August 15 at Gulfstream Park. The Audible bay showed speed under Edgard Zayas and wired the field, earning a 74 Beyer Speed Figure in victory. She was entered in the local one-turn mile Grade 1 Frizette on October 4, but was scratched.
“It was a very good effort. We wanted to run in the Frizette, but unfortunately it didn’t work out. She’s fine now and hopefully she runs as well here as she did in her maiden,” Joseph, Jr. said. “She shipped to run in the Frizette and she got colicky, so she had to scratch. She’s done well since and we left her in New York after that. Hopefully we get her started back here and see how good she is.”
Secane returned to the work tab with a three-furlong bullet in 37.34 seconds on October 18 over the Oklahoma dirt training track at Saratoga Race Course.
“She worked well. She’s always a good work horse, got over the Oklahoma track good,” said Joseph, Jr.
Secane [post 4, Edgard Zayas], a $67,000 purchase at the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, is out of the Street Sense mare Lustica. Her third dam, dual graded-winner Fleet Lady, produced 2008 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Midshipman and Fast Cookie, the dam of Frosted.
C Two Racing Stable, BAG Racing Stables, Barry Fowler, Charles Deters and Mark Taylor’s Day to Day [post 5, Dylan Davis, blinkers ON] returns to dirt after an off-the-board effort in the 1 1/16-mile turf Grade 2 Miss Grillo on October 4 here. The McKinzie bay went off as a 55-1 longshot after a distant fourth on dirt in the seven-furlong Grade 1 Spinaway on August 30 at Saratoga.
The Spinaway’s top pair of Tommy Jo and Percy’s Bar exited to run one-two in the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland, and Rileytole, the Joseph, Jr.-trained third-place finisher at the Spa, was next defeated a nose in the Frizette next by subsequent $2.5 million purchase Iron Orchard.
“We put her on the grass last time and she had a wide kind of trip. She ran OK, I didn’t think she got the best trip in the race. I just wanted to go back to the dirt because the race at Saratoga, the form has worked out so good,” Joseph, Jr. said. “She wasn’t far behind Rileytole and she came back and ran well in the Frizette, so I want to get her back on the dirt. The one-turn mile is a good distance for her, so we’ll see how she does.”
Ahead of the Spinaway, Day to Day won her July 31 debut sprinting 5 1/2 furlongs over the Colonial Downs turf for trainer Michael Trombetta before being privately purchased. She is out of the winning Malibu Moon mare Clockstrucktwelve, a half-sister to dual stakes-winner Never Enough Time.
“We didn’t have her long before the Spinaway, she was well-beaten in there, but it turned out to be a productive race,” Joseph, Jr. said. “She isn’t the most over-zealous work horse, but she’s pretty easy around the barn.”
Repole Stable’s Believable [post 2, Kendrick Carmouche] made a winning debut over course and distance on September 28. Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, the Curlin bay stumbled at the break, recovered to set the pace and edged Concurrently by a nose in a stretch duel.
Believable, an $800,000 purchase at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale, is a half-sister to dual Grade 1-placed millionaire Tenfold out of the winning Tapit mare Temptress.
Rounding out the field are graded stakes-placed Spa Prospector [post 1, Jose Lezcano] for trainer Tom Amoss; and maiden winner Shilling [post 3, Christopher Elliott] for trainer Ken McPeek.
The Tempted is slated as Race 2 on Friday’s nine-race card which also features the Listed $150,000 Pumpkin Pie in Race 8. First post at Aqueduct on Friday is 1:05 p.m. Eastern with the property open for simulcasting from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. to accommodate the Breeders’ Cup Future Stars program from Del Mar.
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