Alabama

Sweet Symphony orchestrated a fourth straight win on Saturday (Joseph DiOrio/Horsephotos.com)

Kinsman Stable’s homebred SWEET SYMPHONY (A.P. Indy) rated patiently during
the opening stages of Saturday’s $750,000
Alabama S. (G1) and then exploded into
the stretch, rallying past the front runners with ease and quickly opening up an
insurmountable advantage. Now unbeaten from four career starts, the dark bay
three-year-old filly captured her stakes debut by 6 1/4 lengths and returned
$9.60, $4 and $3.10 as the 7-2 second choice in the field of seven.

Trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Jerry Bailey, Sweet Symphony settled in
sixth off the early pace of 4-1 third-choice Sis City (Slew City Slew), who led
the field through moderate splits of :24 1/5, :48 4/5 and 1:13 2/5 over the
good Saratoga track with 8-5 favorite Spun Sugar (Awesome Again) tracking in
second. Bailey began to pick off rivals on the far turn and his mount hit her best stride
when straightening for home, blowing past Spun Sugar, Sis City and R Lady Joy
(Vicar) down on the inside and striding home a convincing winner. She clocked
1 1/4 miles over the tiring oval in 2:04 2/5.

“I like this filly a lot,” Mott said. “She’s done everything we’ve asked and
done everything right. She always has more for you. I think this puts her on top
of the heap, as far as the three-year-old filly division is concerned.”

Spun Sugar gave back $3 and $2.40 for the place and R Lady Joy, who
experienced a rough trip when altering course in upper stretch, took third at
6-1 and paid $3.20. The exacta totaled $29 and the 2-7-1 trifecta was worth
$119. Sis City, Dance Away Capote (Capote), For All We Know (Stephen Got Even)
and Ready and Alluring (More Than Ready) rounded out the order of finish.

Bred in Kentucky by George Steinbrenner’s Kinsman Farm and Henry G.
Steinbrenner, Sweet Symphony more than quadrupled her lifetime earnings with the
$450,000 payday and now shows a bankroll of $533,400. She’s out of the New
York-bred winner Brandy Rose (Distinctive Pro), who is also the dam of stakes
victors Patriotic Flame (Concerto) and Infinite Glory (Hennessy). Sweet Symphony
has a yearling half-sister named Ruby Crown (Awesome Again) and a 2005
half-sister by Red Bullet.