Electrifying filly, Sister Moon to start in the Anoakia Stakes at Santa Anita Park
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome S. Moss’s 2-year-old filly Sister Moon has over looked a lot this season just for the sake of her development the way her connections wanted.
The major stakes races for 2-year-olds did not match the juvenile filly’s future plans and she was held back on purpose to start in something special and make an impact right from the get go of her career.
After an amazing maiden special weight race, which was held at Del Mar on 21 August, 2011, over at five and a half furlongs under jockey Joel Rosario, Sister Moon covered the distance in 1 minute and 2.70 seconds and defeated Candy and Thunder and Lady Fairbank
in the process.
With the electrifying start to her career, something like Grade 1 Oak Leaf Stakes at Santa Anita at about 1 1/16 miles should have been the next start for Sister Moon on 2 October, but it was missed.
Now trainer John Sadler deemed Sister Moon unprepared for the Santa Anita Park race, the $65,000 Anoakia Stakes over at 6 furlongs for 2-year-old fillies.
The Anoakia Stakes became the alternative for the Grade 1 Oak Leaf Stakes, and Sadler has a reason for that.
“When she won at Del Mar, she ran so big, bigger than we thought,” Sadler said. “We wanted to give her extra time. In her first few works up here, I could see she wasn’t ready to go a distance.”
It was also in the plan to get Sister Moon used to dirt tracks of Santa Anita, after her early training over at the Hollywood Park’s synthetic surfaces and she also prepared on the Del Mar’s Poly Tracks as well.
The Anoakia Stakes is run over at six furlongs and on dirt, and according to Sadler the filly is well prepared for the race and she will be tough to beat.
John Sadler wanted to save Sister Moon a trip before he sent the filly to a two turn trip, and that doesn’t mean the possibility for a two turn race is totally scratched out of the schedule, but just to see how she does in the six furlong sprint first.
The Anoakia most likely will be the stepping stone to the turn races which are stacked up at the end of the 2011 season.
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