Monday, September 26, 2011

Havre De Grace finishes Beldame Preparations

Leading Horse of the Year Candidate, Havre De Grace put the finishing touches on her preparations for Belmont Park's Grade 1 Beldame at Delaware Park this morning.  Completing a 5 furlong workout in 1:02.20.  The daughter of 2005 Horse of the Year, Saint Liam has won 4 out of 5 races in 2011, previously taking down handicap males in the 2011 edition of the Historic Grade 1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. 
Havre De Grace will carry 123 lbs when facing possible rivals: Royal Delta, Its Tricky, Superespresso, Payton D'oro and 2010 Beldame winner Life at Ten. 
Havre De Grace is owned by Rick Porter of Fox Hill Farm and Trained by Larry Jones.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

First off, the only significant about the Woodward is it has history. Other than that, the Woodward, Whitney, JCGC, Suburban and all these great eastern fall races are nothing more than GR 2 at best.

Anonymous said...

This person likes to upgrade or downgrade races as he sees fit.

Anonymous said...

*the author I meant in the comment above