Either Del Mar or Saratoga likely starts for the Champion filly Blind Luck
It is unclear what is next on the agenda for the brilliant filly, Blind Luck. She has done just about everything in her 3-year racing career and the America’s sweetheart has also picked up an archrival along the way, Havre de Grace.
After defeating Havre de Grace in their last encounter at Del Mar on 16 July, 2011, in the Grade 2 Delaware Handicap on dirt, over a distance of 1 ¼ miles, the 4-year-old filly has springboarded herself to the top of the females.
She is among the leading ladies and has become the main contender to take the 2011 Horse of the Year Award.
Now it is unknown to the fans and whoever follows the filly, where her next start will be? Who will she be battling it out in the quest to extend her already brilliant year.
All that is to be known is that Blind Luck’s next start will be on 28 August, 2011, and on that particular day her options could be the Grade 1, heavily pursed, Pacific Classic, worth $1,000,000, where the champion filly take on some stiff competition if
she starts.
The Pacific Classic is a possibility if her connections decide to keep her at home and then for the first time she will handle the boys on track.
If her connections decide that she is going to take on the male horses then she will have to face an extremely talented older horse, Twirling Candy.
The 1 ¼ mile test will also include another guy who is a little less of a menace for Blind Luck then Twirling Candy, Game on Dude, but he has proved his mettle time and again at the Classic distance.
The inclusion of Blind Luck in Del Mar’s main event looks as if her connections are playing it safe, because if she goes on to win the Pacific Classic, she will become the best horse of either gender, but if she goes on to lose, there will be disappointment
although she would still be considered as the top female runner.
Apart from the $1million event, Blind Luck has the option of meeting her archrival, Havre de Grace, in the $300,000 Personal Ensign at Saratoga, also run over a distance of 1 ¼ miles, her optimum distance.
Blind Luck has already met Havre de Grace six times, and gone to win four times with a slender lead.
Then there is the least likely start but worth mentioning, the Molly Pitcher Stakes at Monmouth Park at a mile and a sixteenth.
The choice should come down to Del Mar or Saratoga, but whatever the choice will be, it will be an exciting one.
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