Plum Pretty looking good to take the La Troienne Stakes
On the undercard of Grade 1, $1 million Kentucky Oaks on 4 May, 2012, at Churchill Downs, Bob Baffert trained 4-year-old filly, Plum Pretty will feature in the Grade 2, $300,000 La Troienne Stakes at Churchill Downs in a field of seven, three-year-old and
above fillies to run over a distance of 1 1/16 miles on dirt.
Peachtree Stable owned, Plum Pretty will face off again with her Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks rival last year, St. John’s River, who was necked out by Plum Pretty to finish as a runner up in the Kentucky Oaks.
Bred in Pennsylvania by Silent Indy Stables and LLC and DDS Stables, Plum Pretty will shoulder 123 pounds compare to her rival, St. John’s River, who will be carrying 118 pounds.
The rest of the field will carry 118 pounds, except, Absinthe Minded who will break from gate number 6 under jockey Mike Smith with the weight of 120 pounds.
The daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, out of A. P. Indy mare Liszy, Plum Pretty as a 3-year-old won her first race in the Sunland Park Oaks at Sunland Park on 27 March, 2011, over a distance of 1 1/16 miles, and covered the distance in 1 minute and 43.18 seconds.
In her next race, she bested St. John’s River by a neck to win the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks, as Zazu finished third at Churchill Downs on 6 May, 2011.
Plum Pretty going over a distance of 1 1/8 miles for the first time topped the distance in 1 minute and 49.50 seconds.
Under jockey Martin Garcia, she then turned in back to back second place finishes in the Grade 2 Hollywood Oaks to Zazu, and in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks to It’s Tricky at Saratoga.
Aiming at the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic, Plum Pretty finished fourth in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga to winner, Royal Delta, and then she downed a race after three starts of winning the Kentucky Oaks, in the Grace 2 Fitz Dixon Cotillion
Stakes.
However, it was a troubled trip at Churchill Downs in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic, as her return to the Twin Spires wasn’t as convincing as before as she fell away to finish fifth to winner, Royal Delta.
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