August 15 update: Jill Byrne and Michael Adolphson check in on contenders for the Beverly D. on Arlington International Festival Of Racing Day.
There are two things that trainer Alan Goldberg thinks can help land Richard Santulli’s Tannery in the winner’s circle following the Grade I $750,000 Beverly D. on Saturday at Arlington International Racecourse – a willingness to throw out her last race and rain.
Tannery is one of six Grade or Group I winners in the Beverly D., Arlington’s signature race for female turf horses during its International Festival of Racing, but the 5-year-old Dylan Thomas mare is coming off a last-place finish in the Diana Stakes where fellow Beverly D. entrants Somali Lemonade and Stephanie’s Kitten finished one-two, respectively.
“She’s training great now, you know, so I’m just throwing that last race out,” Goldberg said Friday on his way to the airport for his first-ever Arlington trip. “I’ve trained her a long time now, and earlier in her career I would have regrouped after a race like that, but I know her well enough now to throw the race out and take another shot.”
Rain wouldn’t likely hurt Tannery’s chances, either, as her Grade I win came on yielding ground at Woodbine for the E.P. Taylor, and she also captured the Sheepshead Bay on soft turf last year.
Goldberg said he considered the 1½-mile Grade I Sword Dancer on Sunday at Saratoga for Tannery. She finished fourth in that race last year, but the trainer thought his charge would benefit from the wider turns and 1 3/16-mile distance at Arlington.
Tannery has won seven of 23 starts and has earned $862,392.
See also …
Contenders in the Beverly D — http://admin.arlingtonpark.com/million/race/beverlyd
Jill Byrne and Michael Adolphson check in on contenders for the Beverly D. on Arlington International Festival Of Racing Day.
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