Re: Question about Sweet Reason (682 Views)
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milwmike (IP Logged)
Date: October 30, 2014 11:27AM
I don't know how to link the article, so I cut and pasted this from a bloodhorse article dated 10/20
After an injured eye delayed the training of Sweet Reason this month, trainer Leah Gyarmati decided to allow the multiple grade I winner to make the final decision, through her Oct. 19 workout, on starting in this year's DraftKings Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I).
After watching Sweet Reason cruise through three furlongs in :34.71 on Oct. 19 at Belmont Park, fastest of 10 workers at the distance; and gallop out in :48 flat, Gyarmati had her answer. The daughter of 2006 Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I) winner Street Sense is scheduled to ship to Santa Anita Park Oct. 26 for her second Breeders' Cup start.
"It went really well. She surprised me," Gyarmati said of the talented filly who last year was the trainer's first horse to reach the Breeders' Cup World Championships. "She had a little issue with her eye coming out of the last race, so she lost a little training, not a lot, maybe a week and a half. I wasn't really sure if I was pushing it; the Breeders' Cup is coming up quick.
"I thought well, I'll let her tell me with her first breeze. ... She was supposed to go three-eighths and she ended up going a half. She just did it easily and couldn't have blown out a match afterwards."
Sweet Reason suffered the eye injury when she finished second to Untapable in the Cotillion Stakes (gr. I) Sept. 20 at Parx Racing. Sweet Reason will return to sprinting in the seven-furlong Filly and Mare Sprint, a distance at which she posted a one-length victory against other 3-year-old fillies in this year's Test Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course.
Read more on BloodHorse.com: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/88141/sweet-reason-set-for-bc-filly-and-mare-sprint#ixzz3Hdt25YHM
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