Rushing Fall, Fifty Five Work Ahead of Beauguay
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Rushing Fall is set to make her season debut in the Beaugay Stakes at Belmont Park
Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown was trackside May 28 at Belmont Park to watch e Five Racing Thoroughbreds' Rushing Fall and Peter Brant's New York-bred Fifty Five breeze on the inner turf in preparation for the June 3 Beaugay Stakes (G3T), slated for the track's opening day.
The duo went a half-mile in company and reached the wire together in a time of :50.48. Brown said both horses will be entered in the 1 1/16-mile Beaugay, a turf test for fillies and mares 4-year-olds and upward.
Rushing Fall has eight wins, half in grade 1 races, and two seconds in 11 career starts. Last year she won the Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland in her April debut and then added the Longines Just a Game (G1T) at Belmont. After a runner-up effort in the Diana Stakes at Saratoga Race Course she finished off the board to end her season in the Oct. 5 First Lady Stakes Presented by UK Healthcare (G1T) back at Keeneland.
Her stablemate Fifty Five has not had quite as illustrious career, but ended 2019 with two stakes wins at Belmont.
Klaravich Stables' Newspaperofrecord is scheduled to make her 4-year-old debut in the June 6 Intercontinental (G3T), a seven-furlong turf sprint for older fillies and mares.
Newspaperofrecord grazes at Churchill Downs
The talented Lope de Vega filly went undefeated in her three-start juvenile campaign, which included a win in the Miss Grillo Stakes (G2T) at Belmont ahead of a score in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) at Churchill Downs.
Last season, Newspaperofrecord finished second in the Edgewood (G3T) at Churchill Downs and Wonder Again (G3T) at Belmont, but was off-the-board in the Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1T), which closed out her season in July.
Newspaperofrecord is training well toward her seasonal debut, according to Brown.
"She seems pretty settled to me in her works and I'm real excited to get her career resumed. I'm going to try to keep her (at distances) only up to a mile," he said. "Based on the way she's training, and if she stays healthy, she should have a really good year."