Flashy Ways and Moulin de Mougin could be starting next in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf
Trained Richard Baltas, who last run a graded stakes winner was back in 2001, and it was the Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes with, Freedom Crest, who participated in the Breeder’s Cup Classic later in the same year, but turned in a 13th place finish.
The trained had an 11 year stakes race drought until Riley Racing Stables’ 2-year-old filly, Flashy Waves showed an amazing turn of foot from fourth to land the debut stakes race on turf, the $100,000 Surf Girl Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, and gave her
trainer his first stakes win in 11 years.
Baltas hasn’t had a big stable since 2001, and he consequently hasn’t reeled in big names all these years, but after Flashy Ways’ big maiden win, and her pedigree tempted both Baltas and owner Jerry Filkowski to run her in a stakes race.
Flashy Ways is out of Carson City mare Golden Kitty, and is the daughter of Catienus, who has gone on to produce stakes winners like Precious Kitten and Cannonball, who are only two of many stakes’ winners.
“I thought she’d like to go long on the turf,” Baltas said. “That’s what her pedigree says.”
The Kentucky bred Flashy Ways downed her maiden at first asking, when she ran at Del Mar in a maiden claimer stretched out over five and one-half furlongs on 16 August, 2012.
She covered the distance in 1 minute and 4.42 seconds under jockey Joe Talamo, and went on to cast Controlled Chaos in second and Pursuitofparadise in third.
Flashy Ways could well be on her way to run in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on 2 November, 2012.
On the other hand, another filly that would be making her next start in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf is the Richard Mandella trained filly, Moulin de Mougin.
Ran Jan Racing owned filly by Curlin won her maiden at second asking over the Santa Anita Park’s hillside turf course.
Under Corey Nakatani, she went on to cover the 6 ½ furlongs in 1 minute and 13.78 seconds. “I’ll see if she can get in the Breeders’ Cup,” Mandella said. “She’s bred for the turf and runs like it,” he said.
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