Princess Arabella all set to make her second start of the season in the Sunland Park Oaks at Sunland Park
Bob Baffert trained undefeated 3-year-old filly, Princess Arabella’s main target for the spring/summer season is to take part in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks, and on its trail the Kentucky bred filly will use Sunland Park Oaks as a springboard to the main race.
She will compete against 6 other 3-year-old fillies in the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks at Sunland Park, going over a distance of 1 1/8 miles on 25 March, 2012.
Peachtree Stable owned filly, Princess Arabella broke her maiden at first asking on 31 December, 2011, going over a distance of six furlongs at Santa Anita Park’s dirt course, where she defeated Hidinginplainsight in second and Lobshot in third, as she covered
the distance in 1 minute and 8.48 seconds.
She was then pointed at an allowance race, to be run at Santa Anita Park’s dirt course on 12 February, 2012, as the filly started as a 3-year-old with a victory under her belt, downing the seven furlong distance in 1 minute and 22.22 seconds as Sage d’Oro
finished in second and Bella’s Fantasy in third.
The daughter of Any Given Saturday, out of mare Tortuga Lady by Thunder Gulch, Princess Arabella will be ridden by jockey Martin Garcia, who rode the filly on both her previous races.
The Sunland Park Oaks will be Princess Arabella’s stakes debut, and for that Bob Baffert took her out on 21 March, 2012, at Santa Anita to turn in a four furlong workout, which the filly completed in 47 2/5 seconds.
The daughter Hard Spun, Glinda The Good, after finishing sixth in the Grade 2 Golden Rod Stakes at about 1 1/16 miles to winner, On Fire Baby, who covered the distance in 1 minute and 45.98 seconds at Churchill Downs on 26 November, 2011, she bounced back
to win the Island Fashion Stakes after being sent as the 1 to 2 choice by a margin of 3 ½ lengths.
Trained by Steven Asmussen for Stonestreet Stables, the 3-year-old Kentucky bred filly is out of mare Magical Flash by Miswaki, will be ridden by Julien Leparoux in the Sunland Park Oaks.
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