Inglorious set to make her comeback start in the Bayakoa Stakes
Donver Stable’s 4-year-old filly, Inglorious, last raced in a competitive race was when she finished third to winner, Marketing Mix, in the Grade 2 Dance Smartly Stakes over Woodbine’s turf course going 1 1/8 miles on 8 July, 2012.
Now, the Josie Carroll trained filly will make target the Grade 2, $200,000 Bayakoa Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park after returning from her layoff, as the millionaire Canadian filly will make a trip to Southern California for her comeback race.
Bred by Arosa Farms, in 2011 racked up a hat-trick from May to June, and went on to win the La Lorgnette Stakes at Woodbine, going 1 1/16 miles over the track’s synthetic surface where she feels most comfortable racing.
Including the La Lorgnette Stakes, Inglorious had tried the distance four consecutive times before, but she was asked to get out of her comfort zone in her next race, when over at Woodbine’s synthetic surface she ran over the distance of 1 1/8 miles for
the first time in the Woodbine Oaks on 5 June, 2011.
It was a successful run for Inglorious and her connections, as she went on to defeat Spooky Kitten in second and Marketing Mix in third, and went on to cover the distance in 1 minute and 51.77 seconds under jockey Luis Contreras.
The 4-year-old filly by Hennessy was then put against another test. The distance was stretched out to 1 ¼ miles, but her adversaries this time were all males in the Queen’s Plate Stakes also over Woodbine’s synthetic surface.
On 26 June, 2011, Inglorious posted her hat-trick and wrote her name in the history books by defeating boys in the Queen’s Plate Stakes going 1 ¼ miles, a distance she has never tried before.
Known as the one who defeated males, Inglorious was sent to Saratoga to participate in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes, but couldn’t handle the cream of the sophomore filly division back then and finished sixth on the day.
Out of Smart Strike mare Noble Strike, Inglorious is yet to win a race since winning the Queen’s Plate, but she is expected to down the Bayakoa Stakes after a deserved rest.
“She’s actually great,” Carroll said Tuesday morning. “I freshened her up and I was looking for a race on a synthetic track.”
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