On Roll, Stormy Liberal Targets Eddie D Stakes

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Stormy Liberal after winning the Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar

Rockingham Ranch and David Bernsen's 2017 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) winner Stormy Liberal will try for a third straight win when he faces eight expected rivals in the $100,000 Eddie D Stakes (G3T) Sept. 28 at Santa Anita Park.

Stormy Liberal enters Friday's about 6 1/2-furlong test on the downhill turf course off a pair of narrow victories sprinting on the Del Mar grass, where he took an optional-claiming allowance test July 25 and the Green Flash Handicap Aug. 17.

BALAN: Stormy Liberal Edges Richard's Boy Again at Del Mar

Trained by Peter Miller, Stormy Liberal registered his most significant win at Del Mar, where he took last year's Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, but the 6-year-old Stormy Atlantic  gelding also has enjoyed success down the hill, where in his past 10 starts he has six wins and four seconds, including consecutive victories last season in the Clocker's Corner, Joe Hernandez, Siren Lure, and Daytona (G3T) stakes.

A top challenge for Stormy Liberal in the Eddie D, the featured race for the Santa Anita fall meet opener, might come from stablemate Conquest Tsunami. Gary Barber's Conquest Tsunami won a pair of races on the unique hillside course to start the year, including a 2 1/2-length victory in the Daytona Stakes. In June, Conquest Tsunami finished second to Disco Partner in the Jaipur Invitational Stakes (G2T) at Belmont Park, one of the season's toughest turf sprints to date.


Entries: Eddie D S. (G3T)

Santa Anita Park, Friday, September 28, 2018, Race 6

  • Grade III
  • About 6 1/2f
  • Downhill turf
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo's & up
  • 3:30 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Law Abidin Citizen (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tiago Josue Pereira 121 Mark Glatt 12/1
2 2Caribou Club (FL) Joseph Talamo 125 Thomas F. Proctor 6/1
3 3Stormy Liberal (KY) Drayden Van Dyke 123 Peter Miller 2/1
4 4Threefiveindia (KY) Geovanni Franco 121 Philip D'Amato 15/1
5 5He Will (CA) Kent J. Desormeaux 121 Jerry Hollendorfer 15/1
6 6Cistron (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Baze 121 John W. Sadler 8/1
7 7Kenjisstorm (KY) Rafael Bejarano 121 Philip D'Amato 10/1
8 8Conquest Tsunami (ON)Keeneland Sales Graduate Flavien Prat 123 Peter Miller 5/2
9 9Touching Rainbows (CA) Gary L. Stevens 121 Philip D'Amato 6/1