Kiaran McLaughlin to map out plans for his runners in 2012, especially for his star filly It’s Tricky
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is looking forward to next year and the challenges his runners will have to face in the coming 2012 season. It is without a doubt obvious that he has capable runners who can on their day can defeat the trickiest of lineups or big
names.
One prominent name to take in McLaughlin’s barn in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic runner up, It’s Tricky, who has been phenomenal in the 2011 season which was also the filly’s sophomore season.
The 3-year-old Kentucky bred daughter of Mineshaft, out of mare Catboat by Tale of the Cat, It’s Tricky in the 2011 season raced eight times and went on to win 5 out of eight and turned in second place finishes thrice on the trot.
The grade 1 winner, twice, started off her 2011 season with a win in an allowance claimer at Aqueduct race track and successfully topped the 1 mile 70 yard event in preparation for the Busher Stakes, which was also run over the same distance as the allowance
claimer.
Staying at the Big A, It’s Tricky landed her first stakes win in the Busher Stakes on 20 February, 2011, at about 1 mile and 70 yards, as she covered the distance in 1 minute and 43.21 seconds. The Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks was a disappointment and the
only bad race she threw in.
She finished 4th on the day, but bounced back to win two consecutive races. It’s Tricky won the Grade 1 Acorn over a mile at Belmont Park and then captured the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga at about 1 1/8 miles.
It’s Tricky finished second in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes to winner Royal Delta, second again in the Grade 2 Fitz Dixon Cotillion and now exiting a second place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic.
In 2012, It’s Tricky might run in the Grade 3 Rampart Stakes. “It’s a long year, and I’m not sure what we’ll do with her yet, although the Rampart at the end of March is possible, with a prep in late February in the Sabin a potential stepping-stone to that
race,” said McLaughlin
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