After missing the break and finishing sixth in Sunday's GIII Santa Ysabel Stakes at Santa Anita, GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies victress Super Corredora (Gun Runner) seems no worse for the wear, according to John Sadler's assistant trainer Juan Leyva.
“It was a very disappointing performance,” said Leyva. “The break just cost us big time. (Jockey) Hector (Barrios) said she stepped back just as they kicked it, so she obviously missed the break, and it was just too much to do from there.”
Super Corredora went off the 8-5 favorite, and her race was described as such by the Equibase chart caller: “Super Corredora threw her head and hopped at the start, climbed at the back early, traveled three deep in the middle stages, entered the far turn in the four path, chased three deep past the five-sixteenths pole, tipped out in the lane and had little left for the drive.”
She finished 40 lengths behind the winner, Forced Entry (Charlatan).
“She ate a lot of dirt going into the first turn,” said Leyva, “and then she had to be wide the whole way around–just a lot of work. We'll keep checking her out really well but so far, she is walking sound. It was just a really bad start. It's really hard to come back from that, especially when they went those kinds of fractions. They didn't even have to go fast–they went [a half mile in] 47–so it's just unfortunate that she missed the break.”
Her co-owners, West Point Thoroughbreds, said that they would let the dust settle before making any future plans for the 2025 Eclipse champion.
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