Beach Bomb runs Kentucky Downs Ladies Marathon S. Gr.3 06 Sep 2025 10½f $2,000,000
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Team Valor have Nadette in the field
36 million rand stakes.
winner will get 20 million rand or so.$2 million Light & Wonder Ladies Marathon Invitational (G3)Joe Sharp — among the trainers making it a mini-trend to run back at the meet with a horse who wins early in the session — is wheeling back Miwa after her impressive seven-length victory in an opening-day allowance at the Ladies Marathon’s 1 5/16-mile distance. Brad Cox is doing the same with Stellify, the front-running winner of a 1 1/2-mile second-level allowance who will be going for her fourth straight win in her stakes debut.Beach Bomb, a multiple Grade 1 winner in her native South Africa, won a pair of Grade 3 stakes at Gulfstream Park in March and was a close second to the accomplished She Feels Pretty in the G1 New York Stakes at Saratoga. She was fifth in her last start, Colonial Downs’ G2 Beverly D. Also coming out of the Beverly D is the late-running fourth-place finisher Duvet Day, a Grade 3 winner at Churchill Downs.Last year’s German Oaks runner-up Spanish Eyes comes into the Ladies Marathon off a late-running second in Colonial Downs’ G2 Beverly D. Nadette ships in from California, where she’s a graded-stakes winner.Others include No Mo Candy, a Grade 3 winner in New York last fall who was most recently third in Saratoga’s G2 Ballston Spa; Argentine Grade 1 winner Gran Mirella, a Horseshoe Indianapolis allowance winner in her last start; stakes-winner Way to Be Marie and Colonial allowance winner Ayra Stark.
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