Bluegrass Cat Filly Salutes in Cicada

Bluegrass Flag | Robert Mauhar/NYRA

Bluegrass Flag earned her first stakes success with a decisive victory over a scratch-reduced field in the Saturday feature. A second-out graduate facing state-breds over track and trip Jan. 14, she set the pace and leveled out late to finish second behind Wilburnmoney (Wilburn) in the Empire-bred Franklin Square S. Feb. 19. Away in good order as the heavy favorite, the dark bay set the pace in the clear through a quarter-mile in :23.66 and came under moderate pressure from Heavenly Score on the turn. Drifting a few paths off the rail coming off the turn, Bluegrass Flag found more in the stretch and coasted home a much-the-best winner. “With each start, she's becoming more relaxed and professional,” said winning trainer Tom Morley. “With a month to the stallion series race [NYSS Park Avenue S., Apr. 22], that's obviously the logical next stop for her.” Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

 

CICADA S., $90,000, AQU, 3-25, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:11.99, ft.

1–#BLUEGRASS FLAG, 117, f, 3, by Bluegrass Cat
1st Dam: No More Flags, by Personal Flag
2nd Dam: Distinctive Sister, by Distinctive Pro
3rd Dam: Swingin' Sister, by Dixieland Band
O-Thomas C. Albrecht & Vincent J. Fusaro; B-Susanne & James
Hooper & Thomas Albrecht (NY); T-Thomas Morley; J-Kendrick
Carmouche. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, $113,220.
2–Heavenly Score, 116, f, 3, Even the Score–Celestial Crown, by
Holy Bull. ($5,000 Wlg '14 OBSOCT; $4,500 Ylg '15 OBSAUG;
$70,000 RNA 2yo '16 OBSMAR). O-Curragh Stables;
B-McDowell Farm (AR); T-John P. Terranova, II. $20,000.
3–Tiz Rae Anna, 114, f, 3, Tiz Wonderful–Skymiler, by Stephen
Got Even. ($40,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP; $20,000 2yo '16 OBSAPR).
O-Bran Jam Stable & David W. Clark; B-Diana Shoop (KY);
T-John T. Toscano, Jr.. $10,000.[bullet ad=”webb-carroll-another-wctc-grad”][bullet ad=”halcyonhammock-congrats”][bullet ad=”vinery-sales-grad”]Margins: 6, 1, NO. Odds: 0.30, 2.60, 5.00.
Scratched: Sounds Delicious, Wilburnmoney.

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