Crimson Frost Seeks Graded Score in Turnback the Alarm

Barry Ostrager's Crimson Frost is on a quest for her first graded stakes win, and she'll take on five other stakes winners Nov. 2 in the $150,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack, a 1 1/8-mile event for fillies and mares. 

Trained by Michelle Nevin, the 5-year-old daughter of Stormy Atlantic  was beaten 8 1/2 lengths by multiple grade 1 winner Midnight Bisou in the Sept. 28 Beldame Stakes (G2) at Belmont Park, which was her first start in graded company. The seasoned veteran of 26 starts scored a black-type win two starts back when taking the Bodacious Tatas Stakes over a sloppy Monmouth Park main track.

"I hope that she can put up another good effort on Saturday," said Nevin, who claimed Crimson Frost for $62,500. "She had decent form which is why we claimed her. She's a very straight forward mare and she's been training well so hopefully we can get lucky. A wet track would be nice."

A record four-time winner of the Turnback the Alarm, trainer Todd Pletcher will send out a trio of fillies for the event, including Another Broad, whose only stakes triumph was in the Top Flight Invitational April 13 at Aqueduct.

Owned by Madaket Stables in partnership with Elayne Stables and Brian Martin, the Maryland-bred daughter of Include  was fourth in the Beldame last out beaten 9 1/2 lengths.

Mathis Stables' Bellera will be making her stakes debut in the Turnback the Alarm. The sophomore daughter of Bernardini  broke her maiden at second asking going 1 1/16 miles at Monmouth before defeating winners next out over a sloppy main track at Saratoga Race Course, where she registered a career-best 89 Beyer Speed Figure. She enters the race off of a narrow second to dual stakes-placed Grandaria at Keeneland.

The final of Pletcher's contingent is China Horse Club International's Alberobello, who will attempt to make amends following a distant seventh against allowance company at Keeneland. The 4-year-old daughter of Bernardini acquired black type running third two starts back in the Summer Colony Stakes at Saratoga, finishing 14 1/2 lengths behind multiple grade 1 winner Blue Prize.

Golden Award, owned by Jane Lyon's Summer Wind Equine, will be seeking her second graded stakes triumph. The half sister to 2012 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner I'll Have Another  bested grade 1 winners Wow Cat and She's a Julie in the Shuvee Stajes (G3) this summer at the Spa before being eased in her last effort, the Personal Ensign Stakes Presented by Lia Infiniti (G1). Hall of Famer Bill Mott trains the 4-year-old Medaglia d'Oro  filly, a winner over four different surfaces.

Davona Dale Stakes (G2) winner Jeltrin, Moonlit Garden, Zena Rules, and Gotham Gala round out the field.

Entries: Turnback the Alarm H. (G3)

Aqueduct Racetrack, Saturday, November 02, 2019, Race 9

• Grade III
• 1 1/8m
• Dirt
• $150,000
• 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
• 4:30 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Another Broad (MD)	Eric Cancel	118	Todd A. Pletcher	12/1
2	2Jeltrin (KY)	Luis R. Reyes	117	Alexis Delgado	10/1
3	3Crimson Frost (KY)	Harry Hernandez	118	Michelle Nevin	12/1
4	4Bellera (FL)	Jose Lezcano	115	Todd A. Pletcher	5/1
5	5Moonlit Garden (KY)	Kendrick Carmouche	119	Brad H. Cox	9/2
6	6Golden Award (KY)	Junior Alvarado	121	William I. Mott	5/2
7	7Alberobello (KY)	Dylan Davis	117	Todd A. Pletcher	10/1
8	8Zena Rules (FL)	Declan Carroll	115	Bentley Combs	20/1
9	9Gotham Gala (KY)	Daniel Centeno	119	Arnaud Delacour	3/1