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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Beautiful Gift in the Las Cienegas today looks interesting. She was a highly regarded filly last year, obviously got hurt, and comes back in a 6 1/2 furlong down the hill race. Is Baffert just using this as a prep, or does he foresee a future on the grass for this filly? She's got some grass breeding on both sides of her pedigree (El Prado/Sadler's Wells on the male side, and Zilzal/Nureyev/Irish River on the female side), so it's not crazy that she might like the surface.
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3rd dam produced Dance Parade, who won this very race for Neil Drysdale in 1998. Dance Parade also was a successful broodmare, producing the good stayer Leading Light, who won the St. Leger and the Ascot Gold Cup. 3rd dam also was granddam of a European champion sprinter.
The second dam, Ocean Queen (another Drysdale trainee), beat males in the 1996 Bay Meadows Derby, setting a course record in the process.
But apparently the pedigree wasn't convincing enough to give Beautiful Gift a try on the grass today.
Lord of the Idiots still up for grabs...
