Royal Delta work ahead of the Dubai World Cup for her seasonal debut
The Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic winner, Royal Delta, has been working toward her initial start of the new campaign under the banner of Besilu Stables, as Benjamin Leon Jr. purchased the daughter of Empire Maker, out of A.P. Indy mare Delta Princess,
following her emphatic win in the Breeders’ Cup for a whopping $8.5 million in the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Trained by Bill Mott, the Kentucky bred 4-year-old filly is expected to get her 2012 season underway in the Group 1 $10 million Dubai World Cup at the Meydan, over a distance of 1 ¼ miles over the venue’s synthetic surface, against a massive star studded
lineup which include the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic runner up, Game on Dude, the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby winner, Animal Kingdom, Europe’s top horse, So You Think, and many others.
Royal Delta on 9 February, 2012, at Payson Park worked six furlongs in 1 minute and 16.30 seconds, and the last year’s champion 3-year-old filly, downed five races so far in her eight starts with the earnings of $1,694,600.
Royal Delta had another work same month on 2 February, 2012, at Payson Park, where she went four furlongs in good time of 48 1/5 seconds.
On the other hand the lightly raced 3-year-old son of Bernardini, out of Machiavellian mare Marietta, Consortium is pointed toward the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes on 3 March, 2012, at Aqueduct race track over a distance of 1 1/16 miles on dirt, a race that has
reeled in the early Kentucky Derby prospect, Alpha.
The Godolphin Racing’s, Consortium, on 9 February also turned in a work ahead of his second start of the season, when at Palm Meadows training center, the colt turned in his first public move since finishing sixth to, Algorithms, in the Grade 3 Holy Bull
Stakes at about a mile on dirt on 29 January, 2012, at Gulfstream Park.
The move was a good one, as he worked half a mile in 50.90 seconds for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin as his work turned out to be the 36th fastest of 43 workers.
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