Lovely Ride Looks to Keep Oaklawn Win Streak in Bayakoa

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Photo: Coady Photography
Lovely Ride wins the Pippin Stakes at Oaklawn Park

Clearly a fan of the Oaklawn Park surface after taking two stakes wins in her last two starts over the Hot Springs oval, Lovely Ride  will look to make it three in the Feb. 4 Bayakoa Stakes (G3) for fillies and mares 4-years-old and up going 1 1/16 miles. 

After coming under the tutelage of trainer Robertino Diodoro early last year, the 5-year-old daughter of Candy Ride   finished off the board in the 2022 Tom Benson Memorial Stakes and then was runner-up in the Mari Hulman George Memorial Stakes at Horseshoe Indianapolis more than three months later.

She ended last year's season with a win in the Mistletoe Stakes at Oaklawn after a four-month layoff that followed a last placed effort in the Trillium Stakes (G3) at Woodbine in mid-August.

Starting out 2023 with a bang, the mare captured the Jan. 7 Pippin Stakes where she led gate-to-wire in front of fellow Bayakoa challengers, grade 3-placed Ice Orchid , and grade 1 runner-up in Chile, Le Da Vida .

Brad Cox trainee A Mo Reay  heads to Oaklawn off of a three-length victory in the Dec. 31 Pago Hop Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, while the Norm Casse trained Powder River  was runner-up in the Dec. 26 Joseph E. Spanky Broussard Memorial Stakes last out.

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John Ortiz takes Ice Orchid as well as stakes-placed Graysonsmacho Gal . Completing the field is Eric Foster trainee Guana Cay .


Entries: Bayakoa S. (G3)

Oaklawn Park, Saturday, February 04, 2023, Race 9

  • Grade III
  • 1 1/16m
  • Dirt
  • $250,000
  • 4 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 4:42 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1A Mo Reay (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Florent Geroux 121 Brad H. Cox 5/2
2 2Guana Cay (KY) Francisco Arrieta 121 Eric N. Foster 20/1
3 3Ice Orchid (KY) Ricardo Santana, Jr. 121 John Alexander Ortiz 4/1
4 4Powder River (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate David Cabrera 121 Norm W. Casse 5/1
5 5Graysonsmacho Gal (KY) Gabriel Saez 117 John Alexander Ortiz 15/1
6 6Le Da Vida (CHI) Vincent Cheminaud 121 Ignacio Correas, IV 7/2
7 7Lovely Ride (KY) Cristian A. Torres 124 Robertino Diodoro 3/1