Sixty Sails

TRACK BANDIT PREVIEWS

Saturday’s nine-furlong Sixty Sails H. (G3) at Hawthorne has drawn a talented
field of seven distaffers and we’re going to go against the classy older mares
and use the four-year-old GHOSTLY GATE (Silver Ghost), who enters off two wins
in a row including a victory over this surface last time in the 1 1/16-mile Merry Collen S. The Hugh Robertson trainee also took an optional claiming event by 11
1/2 lengths over the Cicero, Illinois track last May and has shown an affinity
for this surface in the mornings, getting five-eighths in 1:02 on April 17. In
all three of her starts this year the bay has had improving BRIS Speed ratings,
including a career-best 103 last out, and she should enjoy the added distance
here.

ISOLA PIU BELLA (Chi) (Rich Man’s Gold) has not missed the board in three
North American starts for conditioner Todd Pletcher including a third in her
U.S. bow, the Banshee Breeze S., a 2 1/2-length triumph in the Sabin H. (G3) and
a second-place effort in the Rampart H. (G2) most recently. Since shipping
stateside, the five-year-old has only run at 1 1/8 miles and with Pletcher’s
go-to rider John Velazquez in the irons, it is hard to deny this mare.

INJUSTICE (Lit de Justice) brings a two-race win streak into the Sixty Sails,
including a half-length victory in the March 12 Azeri Breeders’ Cup H. (G3).
Both of the
Wayne Catalano trainee’s last two starts earned the filly triple-digit Speed ratings,
and we like her chances to at least hit the board if not steal it on the front
end.

John Kimmel sends out RARE GIFT (Unbridled’s Song), who finished third beaten
just one length last out in the Next Move H. (G3) going the Sixty Sails
distance. The gray has only missed the board twice in 12 lifetime starts and
we’ll definitely use the four-year-old in all levels of the exotics with Joe
Bravo aboard.

Another successful trainer/jockey combination, Bobby Frankel and Jerry
Bailey, will team up with PERSONAL LEGEND (Awesome Again) in the Sixty Sails.
The chestnut ran also ran a career-best Speed rating last time (105) when
finishing fourth in the Santa Margarita Invitational H. (G1), and before that
finished in the same position in the Santa Maria H. (G1). The five-year-old
drops in class here but we’ll have to see more from her to endorse her chances
for the win as she has been much more successful on the grass.

FRIEL’S FOR REAL (Sword Dance [Ire]) may be ambitiously placed in this one
but she still looks dangerous after an impressive fourth in the Next Move after
a troubled trip. Prior to that one, the dark bay ran away with the Maryland
Racing Media H. at Laurel Park, taking the nine-furlong affair by a widening 5
1/2 lengths. Look for the five-year-old to come running late to perhaps grab
part.

UNINHIBITED SONG (Unbridled’s Song) is a stakes winner but has not run her
best since winning an allowance at Keeneland last fall. She appears outclassed
here and we’ll have to go against.