Broken Dreams shake loose late to land the Maddy Stakes for the second year in a row
Glen Hill Farm’s homebred 6-year-old mare, Broken Dreams, had an uphill task to catch the speed-burning front wheeler, Kindle, to bag the Grade 3, $100,000 Senator Ken Maddy Stakes, and she successfully did it twice in two years, but did leave it late to
give her connections and her fans the late drama.
Thomas F. Proctor trained mare, Broken Dreams edged Kindle by half-length to the six and one-half furlongs event over Santa Anita Park’s hillside turf course on 20 October, 2012.
Gary Mandella trained Kindle sped away from the start, and opened up an early lead. She set up the pace, and over the downhill carved solid fractions by smoking the opening quarter mile in 20.97 seconds, and half mile in 42.53 seconds.
It was Kindle’s turf debut, and Broken Dreams who has primarily run on turf throughout her career, and returned to Santa Anita’s turf course since she last ran in the same race on 30 September, 2011.
Jockey Garrett Gomez guided Broken Dreams, as she stalked the leaders in the beginning just off the rail, but angled inside, and in the stretch.
At one point, it looked as if Kindle will land the Maddy Stakes by a gutsy front running run, but Broken Dreams under urging and strong handling, cut two foes in two and caught her late to win by a narrow margin.
The Florida bred daughter of Broken Vow, timed 6 ½ furlongs in 1 minute and 11.81 seconds. Despite Kindle’s big lead in the homestretch, Gomez and Broken Dreams closed in the gap and landed a magnificent victory.
Gomez said, "The simple fact is, coming to the dirt, instead of picking (Kindle) up, she actually moved away from me another length or so and I was like, 'Oh, man.' I know my filly is going to stay going 6 1/2 and I know she's going to keep coming.
"But by the time we hit inside the eighth pole, she (Kindle) wasn't coming back still," Gomez continued "I had maybe made up a little bit of ground on her, but not much, not enough to get there.”
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