Groupie Doll out to tackle males in the Cigar Mile
Fred and Buff Bradley’s 4-year-old filly Groupie Doll is a serious contender for the Horse of the Year title for this year, with five straight graded stakes victories, and her third grade 1 tally of the season was the all important Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup
Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita Park.
Filly by Boawman’s Band, Groupie Doll’s connections are looking to bolster these credentials for the Horse of the Year honours by sending her to fight the males in the Grade 1, $350,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct Racetrack on 24 November, 2012.
Groupie Doll will be going to tackle the males for the first time in her career, and if there was any better time to throw her in the fray; it was now, especially in such good form, there is a sweet inkling that she will give those male runners a run for
their money.
If she goes on to win the race, she will become a coast-to-coast phenomenon, and already in lock to win the Eclipse Award for filly and mare sprinters, Groupie Doll is nothing to lose.
The winning streak, that put her in conversation against the males in the first place started when she landed her first ever grade 1 victory, the Vinery Madison Stakes for trainer Buff Bradley in April at Keeneland.
One reeled in another, and Groupie Doll from a sole grade 1 winner, in the span of a single start, became multiple grade 1 winning filly when she romped to a 7 ¼ length victory in the Grade 1 Humana Distaff Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Buff Bradley, dropped Groupie Doll in class, and sent her in a couple of grade 2 events, but the filly didn’t take it easy and ran home with the Grade 2 Presque Isle Masters Stakes and the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland.
Groupie Doll relished sprint races, but she has one over a mile twice in her career. Last year she went on to win the Grade 3 Gardenia Stakes at Ellis Park, and then capped off the 2011 season with a win in a mile long allowance/optional claimer.
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