Super Espresso to run her last race of her career in the Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs
“This is her last race,” Pletcher said. “We haven’t quite been able to get her to recapture that form she showed when she won the Allaire DuPont on Preakness Day, but she hasn’t embarrassed us, either. She’s been a consistent mare, and we’ve tried some ambitious
spots with her.”
These were the words of trainer Todd Pletcher ahead of the 4-year-old mare Super Espresso’s last run in the Grade 2 Falls City Handicap on 24 November, 2011, at about 1 1/8 miles over at Churchill Downs dirt course, a race which has reeled in ten three-year-old
fillies and above.
Owned by the celebrity chef Bobby Flay, the Kentucky bred filly is the daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, out of mare Amizette by Forty Niner, Super Espresso in her career managed a single graded stakes win in the Grade 3 Allaire Dupont Distaff at Pimlico on 21
May, 2011, with Ramon Dominguez in irons.
Super Espresso on dirt downed Payton d’Oro and Life At Ten, who finished second and third respectively over at the distance of 1 1/16 miles, as Super Espresso covered the distance in 1 minute and 42.85 seconds.
She had two previous victories in the 2011 season, winning an allowance race over at 1 mile and 70 yards at Aqueduct on 5 January, 2011, where she topped the distance in 1 minute and 43.81 seconds.
Her second win of the season also came at Aqueduct race course where she won the Sky Beauty Stakes over at a mile on 6 February, 2011, and defeated the likes of Diva’s Gold and Electric Gold, who finished second and third, respectively, as the winner covered
the mile distance in 1 minute and 39.79 seconds.
She came close to winning her 4th race of the season in the Grade 1 Ruffian, but she finished an agonizing second to Ask the Moon.
Super Espresso is coming off a seventh place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic as she earned an 89 Beyer Speed Figure there.
“She’s trained well since BC,” Pletcher said. “This isn’t an easy race by any means, but it certainly represents some class relief for her. We’d love to send her out on a good note.”
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