Northfield, OH – Sangria Summer delivered a commanding performance in the Courageous Lady, going straight to the front, setting strong fractions over a track labeled good of 26:4, 54:4, 1:22:1 and continuing on to an almost three-length victory in 1:51:1
The impressive filly gave driver Matt Kakaley his second win in the Courageous Lady, making the victory even more special.
She had rattled off four consecutive wins including the Grade 3 Shady Daisy at the Meadowlands and the Grade 1 James Lynch Memorial at Pocono before finishing 4th in the Pennsylvania Sires Stakes Final when she never had racing room.
With a good post to her advantage, Kakaley was going to make sure the race went through his talented filly and daughter of Captaintreacherous.
“She won the post draw, with Loua Dipa drawing post 8 we took advantage of it. She zipped around there, she drives like a car so it makes my job easy,” Kakaley said after the race.
Kakaley was equally confident about what lies ahead for the talented filly.
“She’s a special filly so I’m sure you’ll be hearing from her again,” he added.
We will hear from her immediately as it is on to Scioto Downs for the Breeders Crown next weekend.
Perfect Thought (Anthony Macdonald) and Seaside Shuffle (Chris Page) completed the exotics behind Sangria Summer. Be Perfect BG went off the slight favorite and made a mild rally from the back but had to settle for 4th with Justin Irvine picking up the drive for Dexter Dunn who was unable to make it back from Lexington.