Libby's Tail Heads Redrawn Adirondack

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Photo: Coady Photography/Churchill Downs
Silvertoni is one of seven fillies entered for the redrawn Adirondack Stakes

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.

Adirondack S. (gr. II)

Saratoga Race Course, Friday, August 19, 2016, Race 10
  • 6 1/2f
  • Dirt
  • $200,000
  • 2 yo Fillies
  • 6:18 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
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