Musical Romance won her first race of the season in the Inside Information
Co-owned and trained by William A. Kaplan in partnership with Pinnacle Racing Stable, Musical Romance, atoned for her disappointing outing in the Sunshine Millions Filly-Mare Sprint, where she finished an unimpressive fourth to winner, It’s Me Mom, in the
Grade 2, $150,000 Inside Information Stakes over Gulfstream Park’s dirt course, going over a distance of seven furlongs on 17 March, 2012, in a field of 10, four-year-old and up fillies.
It was Musical Romance’s third graded stakes win, with a win in the Grade 2 Presque Isle Masters last year adding to the tally.
The Florida bred mare has been unsuccessful in her last five starts at Gulfstream Park, and never got to grips with the track, where she failed to turn in a placed finish in her last five starts, but this time around she was determined in the deep stretch,
as she split horses to capture her first win of the new campaign.
The daughter of Concorde’s Tune, out of mare Candlelightdinner by Slew Gin Fizz, Musical Romance broke from post number 5,and raced closely behind the pace setter, Funny Sunny,
The Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie winner and Todd Pletcher trainer, R Holiday Mood along with Luis Saez’s Ride Hot Summer, carved opening fractions with downing the opening quarter mile in 23.21 seconds and half a mile in 46.07 seconds.
Funny Sunny was overhauled by the fast approaching Hot Summer in the top of the lane, but R Holiday Mood went on the outside for a potent run, expected to come later in the deep stretch.
However, the two leaders didn’t expect a bolstering run from the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, Musical Romance, and inside the sixteenth pole, the champion mare locked the victory with her impressive run, splitting the leaders in two.
“You know what; I had a beautiful trip, just like I envisioned it," Leyva said. "Sit behind the speed and when we turned for home I just turned her loose and I had a lot in the tank. I was in tight a little bit, but it was just a matter of being patient,
waiting. I know once I ask this filly she’s going to go through anything. This filly is awesome.”
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