Replay of Unbridled Belle winning the Obeah

Team Valor Stables Unbridled Belle winning the Gr3 Obeah for the second year running.

Belle the one to beat in Delaware Handicap


Preview: USA, Sunday
Delaware Park: Delaware Handicap (Grade 2) 1m2f dirt 3yo+ fillies and mares (10.37pm)

THE absence of Rachel Alexandra, whose connections have chosen to guide her toward the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park instead, makes for a wide open Delaware Handicap.

Acoma (David Carroll/Julien Leparoux), a Graded stakes winner over turf at Churchill Downs on her most recent start and a Graded stakes winner on dirt as well, looks to have a leading chance.

The horse to beat though, is Unbridled Belle (Todd Pletcher/Richard Migliore), winner of the 2007 Delaware Handicap by nearly eight lengths.

She loves the surface, having won five of her seven starts on the main track there, and comes into today's event an eleven length winner of the Grade 3 Obeah Stakes on sloppy going.

Livin Lovin (Steve Klesaris/Ramon Dominguez), the 2-1 morning-line favourite, was also entered in the Delaware Oaks but will pass both events in favour of the Grade 1 Coaching Club Americn Oaks at Belmont Park on July 25.


Goodluck Barry..

Morning Hibby, thanks for update, Barry had a local winner yesterday Trojan.
He has more winners than I have Currys. lol

UNBRIDLED BELLE STROLLS HOME 4 LENGTHS ON TOP IN LAST NYRA RACE,
DOMINGUEZ RIDES PLETCHER MARE TO VICTORY NUMBER 8 IN 24 STARTS,
GLEANINGS IN PENULTIMATE OUT SWELL CAREER EARNINGS TO $1,893,728

Unbridled Belle, making her final start in New York and her penultimate career outing, proved an easy 4-length winner of the $109,000 Turnback the Alarm Stakes this afternoon when racing at Aqueduct for the first time.

The Broken Vow mare has made all but one of her 24 career outings and scored 7 of her 8 victories for Team Valor International. Prize winnings of $65,400 increased her career earnings to $1,893,728.
Unbridled Belle was winning her second Grade 3 contest of the season, having earlier romped by 11 lengths in taking the Obeah Handicap for a second time at Delaware Park.

The 6-year-old mare, trained by Todd Pletcher, is scheduled to bow out of racing next month in the Grade 2 Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs. The 17-hand dark bay mare will be vanned right after the Louisville race to Hill n Dale Farm, where she will be placed under artificial lightning with an eye to commencing her cycle in anticipation of the 2010 breeding season.

Medaglia d’Oro has been chosen as the mate for next season and the mare will be bred on an annual breeding right belonging to Team Valor principal Barry Irwin, who originally bought MDO on behalf of Audrey Haisfield, who started him out at Hill n Dale before starting her own farm, Stonewall Stallions, a year later.

The El Prado stallion, the most talked about sire in the world today, was subsequently acquired by Sheik Mohammed to stand at Darley Stud in Lexington, Kentucky. Unbridled Belle will be offered for sale by her partnership in November of 2010 at the Fasig-Tipton November sale.



Sent off as the prohibitive 1 to 2 favorite for the Grade 3, Unbridled Belle broke with her field and was allowed by Dominguez to find her stride early, as a phalanx of three rivals raced ahead of her through pedestrian fractions of :24.74, :49.19 and 1:12.84.
There was but one anxious moment for UB’s backers, as she raced pocketed in with seemingly no place to escape at the quarter pole. But as the field angled for home, Dominguez deftly maneuvered the huge mare through a narrow seam. He asked her to accelerate once straightened away for the drive and the mare went clear a furlong out and won with consummate ease.

Partners William Reck and George Loucas led the mare into the winners’ circle at The Big A. The win in the Grade 3 followed such illustrious triumphs as the $1-million Delaware Handicap and the Grade 1 Beldame Stakes, a race in which she also finished second and third at Belmont Park.

Well done again to Barry and the team

Goodluck thursday Barry hope she Finishes her career in style!!

When does it run?