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Valley View earns a Sparkling Review
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| Sparkling Review was much the best in her stakes debut, remaining perfect from three turf starts
(Keeneland/Coady Photography) |
Edward Seltzer and Beverly Anderson's Sparkling Review was up against a field
crammed with stakes veterans in Friday's Grade 3, $150,000
Valley
View, but the stakes debutante made short work of them on the Keeneland
turf. Bet down noticeably from her 30-1 morning line, the well-bred daughter of
Lemon Drop Kid went off at 7-1 and gave Ben Colebrook his first stakes winner as
a trainer."I could see she was going better than everybody else (at the
sixteenth-pole)," Colebrook said. "I might have started celebrating a little bit
early, but I didn't think they were going to catch her today. We were very
excited."
The overflow field of 16 was trimmed to 12 by post time, following the
withdrawals of Daring Dancer, Token of Love, Sumba Sunset and the first
also-eligible, Share the Sugar. Daring Dancer was missing her second straight
engagement due to rain-softened ground here, having scratched from last
Saturday's Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, and trainer Graham Motion tweeted
that she would now ship to Santa Anita for the October 25 Autumn Miss.
Spring Included sped from her rail post to set the pace through fractions of
:23 3/5, :48 2/5 and 1:13 3/5 on a course that had been upgraded to good.
Lukewarm 7-2 favorite Miss Frost prompted on the outside, with Size stalking to
her inner, but both ultimately retreated.
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Sparkling Review, hung out wide throughout from post 10, was settled well
back early by a patient Julien Leparoux. She began to creep closer on the far
turn, just as A Little Bit Sassy was launching a bold early bid into the fray.
Spring Included repelled A Little Bit Sassy, only to find an irresistible
challenger emerging out in the center of the course.
Rallying widest of all into the stretch, Sparkling Review outkicked her foes
to win going away by 2 3/4 lengths. The homebred bay negotiated 1 1/16 miles in
1:44 1/5 and returned $16.80 to win.
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| Ben Colebrook, a protege of Christophe Clement, celebrates his first stakes win as a trainer
(Keeneland/Coady Photography) |
"I wasn't surprised that she won," Colebrook said of the sophomore filly, who
is now three-for-three on the turf. "She's been training like a good filly.
"She probably could have won a little bit easier at Kentucky Downs (where she
won a September 6 allowance). She had a rough trip that day. She won with
something left in the tank. When she broke her maiden, she broke her maiden very
impressively at Arlington (August 9). She showed she could be that kind of
filly. Today that was a good bunch of fillies that she beat."
Spring Included held second by three-quarters of a length from the
hard-charging Goldy Espony, who closed from near the tail of the field at a trip
short of her best. Fashion Fund got up from last for fourth, followed by V V
Goodnight, Annulment, Stellaris, Miss Frost, A Little Bit Sassy, Rosalind,
Valseuse and Size.
Sparkling Review's overall mark stands at 4-3-0-0, $169,475. Unraced at two,
she made her debut June 20 in a 6 1/2-furlong sprint at a muddy Churchill Downs,
finishing in a dead-heat for fifth. She then switched to turf and hasn't looked
back.
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The Kentucky-bred is the first registered foal from the multiple
stakes-placed Pleasant Tap mare Pleasant Review. Her dam is a three-quarter
sister to multiple Grade 2 heroine Dance Colony, ancestress of multiple Grade 2
victor Blueskiesnrainbows, and a half-sister to Grade 1 stars Another Review and
No Review. This is also the female line of Cavorting, winner of the August 10
Adirondack and an uncharacteristic last in the October 4 Frizette. Further back
in the family, one finds renowned sire Lyphard.
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