Tu Endie Wei to extend her winning record to 3 wins in as many starts in her next start, the Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes.
The unbeaten 2-year-old filly, Tu Endie Wei, the Kentucky bred now in Canada, comes back to Kentucky to participate in a massive field of 14 confirmed fillies in the Grade 1, $400,000 Darley Alcibiades Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Keeneland on 7 October,
2011.
The 1 1/16 mile Alcibiades Stakes will run for the 60th time and will highlight the opening day of the Keeneland fall meet.
Usually trainer Reade Baker does not send out the 2-year-old juvenile runners to a stakes race, but for the daughter of Johar, out of Ms Cornstalk by Indian Charlie, he made an exception.
The Brereton C. Jones owned 2-year-old filly represented her connections in the My Dear Stakes Woodbine this year on 25 June, under jockey James McAleney.
The filly covered the distance of 5 furlongs in a fast 56.93 seconds.
Next, she was sent to participate in the Ontario Debutante Stakes which she nailed as well under the same jockey, James McAleney, over a distance of 6 ½ furlongs on Woodbine’s synthetic surface.
On 13 August, 2011, Tu Endie Wei downed her opponents in the Ontario Debutante and covered the distance in 1 minute and 16.53 seconds, defeating the ever so agile, Northern Passion, and Runfor Ro, who finished second and third, respectively.
The Darley Alcibiades Stakes is also part of the Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” series, and the winner of the race will earn an automatic berth in the Grade 1 Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs on 4 November.
Tu Endie Wei is following in her half sister, Biofuel’s, footsteps, who was the 2010 Canadian Horse of the Year and also went on to win the Ontario Debutante Stakes.
Quick off the gate, Tu Endie Wei proved her agility to trainer Reade Baker when he ran her against a 3-year-old colt, and held Tu Endie Wei six lengths off, but she went past the colt so fast that Baker thought the colt had broken down. He finished in 1
minute and 1 seconds while Tu Endie Wei was faster than him.
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