Beau Choix Gets First Winner
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Photo: Coglianese Photos/Lauren King
Spicy Nelly wins easy Oct. 29 at Gulfstream Park West
Beau Choix did his damage on the grass, capturing multiple stakes and earning $425,694. His 2-year-old daughter Spicy Nelly became his first winner Oct. 29 by cruising a mile on the dirt and winning by 4 3/4 lengths at Gulfstream Park West.
In a race originally carded for the turf, jockey Carlos Olivero guided the filly through fractions of :24.91, :50.18, and 1:16.69 for six furlongs before opening up in the stretch and completing the front-running score in 1:44.76 over a track labeled good.
The Just For Fun Stable homebred, trained by Bernardo Lopez, took the $35,000 maiden claiming race in her second start. Sent off at odds of 7-2, she paid $9, $4.20, and $2.60. She was bred in Florida out of the Stormy Atlantic mare Impetuous Nelly.
Beau Choix, a son of Elusive Quality, is out of multiple graded stakes winner Belle Cherie (Belong to Me). Belle Cherie captured the 1999 Delta Air Lines Top Flight Handicap (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack and is a half sister to multiple grade 1 winner Octave.
Beau Choix placed in the 2010 Jamaica Handicap (G1T) at Aqueduct and the Fourstardave Handicap (G2T) at Saratoga Race Course. He captured the Rob N Gin Stakes over the Belmont Park turf in 2011 and 2012.
A Kentucky homebred for Belle Meadows Farm and Lael Stable, Beau Choix stood the 2017 season at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Florida for a fee of $2,500.