Romacaca too good for the South Beach Stakes lineup
The seven and one half furlongs long $100,000 South Beach Stakes has drawn a massive field of 13, 3-year-olds and upward fillies and mares, and after a quick look at the field it can be determined that the 6-year-old mare, Romacaca, is the class of the field.
The South Beach Stakes will go underway on 9 December, 2012, at Gulfstream Park’s turf course, and the field is loaded with ton of speed, and Romacaca is one of those horses, who possesses blistering pace, and can unleash it whenever she wants.
That will be a concern for trainer Danny Miller, who trains the mare for owner Frank Calabrese. The 6-year-old mare by Running Stag, Romacaca will be sent as the 123 pound highweight in the field of 13, including jockey Francisco Torres. Under the allowance
conditions of the South Beach Stakes, Romacaca has been assigned that much weight because of her victory in the Grade 3 Modesty Handicap back in July at Arlington Park.
This season though, Romacaca, has won three races including the Modesty Handicap. Prior to the Modesty Handicap win, Romacaca won an allowance race at Calder Racecourse in April, and currently she is exiting a victory in the Indian Maid Handicap at Hawthorne
Racecourse on 6 October, 2012.
“I think she’s a little better than the horses she’ll be facing in this race. That’s why she’s carrying high weight, because she’s the only one in the field to have won a Grade 3 this year,” said Miller. “But having all that speed in there with her has got
to be a concern, especially speed going 7 1/2 furlongs. But if she can get outside the other speed horses and Cisco can get her to settle, I don’t think it will matter.”
The ultimate goal for Romacaca is to run in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf on 19 January, 2013, and the South Beach Stakes will set her up nicely for that race.
“She went into the Sunshine Millions last year off a layoff and she finished second,” said Miller. “This time I really want her to go in with a race under her belt.”
Tags: