Libby's Tail, a 2-year-old daughter of Tiz Wonderful who came from seventh to win first time out at Belmont Park going 5 1/2 furlongs July 2, is the 5-2 morning line favorite for the redrawn Adirondack Stakes (gr. II) Aug. 19. The 6 1/2-furlong race was part of the Aug. 13 program at Saratoga Race Course that was cancelled mid-card due to heavy rains.
The Adirondack drew one additional entrant in its new format, Romantic Music, who drew the rail and listed at 8-1 on the morning line.
Libby's Tale, a $375,000 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. spring sale buy, is trained by Rudy Rodriquez for Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables, and partners. Originally drawn in post 5, for Friday's outing she's slated on the outside in the field of seven.
The 3-1 second choice is Clearview Stable's Ever So Clever, from Steve Asmussen's barn.
Ever So Clever broke her maiden first time out July 1 going six furlongs at Churchill Downs. She broke from the rail in a nine-horse field and earned a field-high 93 Equibase Speed Figure in the process. The daughter of top sire Medaglia d'Oro is out of Foxy Danseur, who ran third in the Sorrento Stakes (gr. III) for juvenile fillies in 2007 and was later grade III-placed. She's already produced a pair of stakes horses in Miss Centerfold (by Tiznow ) and Tathqeef (by Tapit , in England).
Asmussen won last year's Adirondack with Just Wicked and the 2011 edition with My Miss Aurelia.
Silverton Hill's Silvertoni broke her maiden at Keeneland in April and won the Kentucky Juvenile Stakes at Churchill Downs in early May before trainer Wesley Ward tested the waters at Royal Ascot in England, where she finished ninth behind Caravaggio. She'll break from post 6.
PP | Horse | Jockey | Wgt | Trainer | M/L |
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1 | 1Romantic Music (FL) | Kendrick Carmouche | 118 | Derek S. Ryan | 8/1 |
2 | 2Nonna Mela (KY) | Javier Castellano | 118 | Todd A. Pletcher | 6/1 |
3 | 3Olive Branch (KY) | Jose L. Ortiz | 118 | Richard A. Violette, Jr. | 6/1 |
4 | 4Dial Me (KY) | Luis Saez | 118 | D. Wayne Lukas | 12/1 |
5 | 5Ever So Clever (KY) | John R. Velazquez | 118 | Steven M. Asmussen | 3/1 |
6 | 6Silvertoni (KY) | Joel Rosario | 122 | Wesley A. Ward | 7/2 |
7 | 7Libby's Tail (KY) | Irad Ortiz, Jr. | 118 | Rudy R. Rodriguez | 5/2 |