Miss Marissa Heads Turnback the Alarm Handicap

Cammarota Racing's Miss Marissa  will attempt to win her third graded stakes event when facing four other fillies and mares in the $150,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap (G3) going nine furlongs over the Belmont Park main track Nov. 6. 

Miss Marissa, trained by Jim Ryerson, was a last-out third in the Beldame Stakes (G2) Oct. 10 at Belmont where she finished behind the victorious Royal Flag  and Horologist , both of whom are entered in Saturday's Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar. 

When Miss Marissa captured the Delaware Handicap (G2) July 10, it prompted Ryerson to try the 4-year-old daughter of He's Had Enough  in the Personal Ensign Stakes Presented by Lia Infiniti (G1) seven weeks later at Saratoga Race Course, where she finished a distant eighth. 

Ryerson said a good effort by Miss Marissa on Saturday would result in a start in the $250,000 Go for Wand Handicap (G3) Dec. 4 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

"I thought she battled well to try and be second in the Beldame and ran really well that day," Ryerson said. "Hopefully, we can do well and then go to the Go for Wand from there going a flat mile. We made our mark going a little further than that, but it's in our backyard."

Miss Marissa shipped to Pimlico Race Course to capture the George E. Mitchell Black-Eyed Susan Stakes (G2) last October. Ryerson said Miss Marissa has developed well into her 4-year-old season. 

"Going from 3 to 4, you like to see them get a little stronger, faster, and have some more maturity in them," Ryerson said. "I think she's done that. They don't always do that. We'll see how we finish the year and see what Mr. (Alfonso) Cammarota wants to do with her next year. Hopefully, we can finish the year well. She's sound and if she races well finishing up this year, I think he'll plan to race her."

Ryerson said Miss Marissa, who has won over five different ovals, gets a lot out of her training at Belmont. 

"The one thing that I've noticed is that she really likes to train here," Ryerson said. "I was a little disappointed with how she trained at Saratoga and to have the results we had, but we've gone out of here and run a number of places and she's run well."

Kendrick Carmouche will ride Miss Marissa from post 2. 

Three-time winner Jilted Bride  seeks to make the grade for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen. 

The consistent 4-year-old daughter of Wicked Strong   has never finished out of the money in a dozen lifetime starts. She arrives off a runner-up effort in a seven-furlong allowance optional claimer Oct. 2 at Churchill Downs, which came three months after earning black type when third in the Lady Jacqueline Stakes at Thistledown. 

"There's very few that try every race, and she is a model of consistency," said Peter Bradley of Bradley Thoroughbreds, who owns Jilted Bride in partnership with Tim and Anna Cambron and Brady and Zane Carruth. 

Bradley expressed optimism in Jilted Bride being competitive at graded stakes level. 

"This race will tell us," Bradley said. "She ran a very solid race in her comeback at Churchill. She certainly needed the race. She's a filly that has definitely matured and gotten better physically." 

Ruben Silvera will ride Jilted Bride from post 1. 

Completing the field are Gibberish , So Darn Hot , and Firing Carol . 

Entries: Turnback the Alarm H. (G3)

Belmont Park, Saturday, November 06, 2021, Race 3

• Grade III
• 1 1/8m
• Dirt
• $150,000
• 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
• 1:03 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Jilted Bride (FL)	Ruben Silvera	117	Steven M. Asmussen	7/2
2	2Miss Marissa (KY)	Kendrick Carmouche	122	James T. Ryerson	1/1
3	3So Darn Hot (KY)	Manuel Franco	116	George Weaver	5/1
4	4Firing Carol (KY)	Eric Cancel	114	Ricardo E. Legall	15/1
5	5Gibberish (KY)	Dylan Davis	119	Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.	2/1