Pletcher to send Broadway’s Alibi and Disposablepleasure – depending on how they work this weekend – to the Mother Goose
Veteran trained, Todd Pletcher, has set eyes on the winning purse of the Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park on 23 June, 2012, as he is expected to send two of his most valued three-year-old fillies to down the 1 1/16 mile Grade 1 event.
Exclusive for three-year-old fillies, the Mother Goose has reeled in eight, three-year-old fillies, and the field might extend to nine if trainer Todd Pletcher decides to send Disposablepleasure, along with Broadway’s Alibi.
However, Pletcher will decide on both of them until after seeing them breeze on 17 June, 2012, and that is when he will make a decision on sending either or both of them to the Mother Goose Stakes.
It all depends on how, Broadway’s Alibi and Disposablepleasure turn in their respective works this weekend, but the trainer did say that if they go on to do what they did last Sunday when they were out on the track to breeze, there is a chance that he will send both of them.
Todd Pletcher was keen on starting, Broadway’s Alibi, in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park on memorial day, but decided against it and considered Mother Goose Stakes as a better option.
E. Paul Robsham Stables owned Broadway’s Alibi has done everything to impress her connections, by breaking her maiden at second asking, going on to win an allowance/optional claimer, and then stepping up in class to win the Grade 2 Forward Gal Stakes, and then the Grade 3 Comely Stakes.
By then, the Vindication filly had a four race win streak, but it was snapped –barely, in the Kentucky Oaks, when she got beat by, Believe You Can, in second.
“She ran very hard in the Oaks and was taking a little while to recover, but she is rounding back into form,” said Pletcher.
The distance of the Mother Goose is less than the distance of the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks.
“I don’t think the mile and an eighth or the two turns were a problem [for Broadway’s Alibi in the Oaks],” said Pletcher. “She just got outrun on the day. I think she’s a pretty versatile filly; she’ll be effective anywhere from six furlongs to a mile and an eighth.”
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