Pauseforthecause Aims for Stakes Win in La Verdad

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Photo: Skip Dickstein
Chester Broman, owner of Pauseforthecause

Chester and Mary Broman's stakes-placed homebred Pauseforthecause will try to secure her first stakes win when she faces an expected nine other New York-bred filly and mare sprinters in the $100,000, seven-furlong La Verdad Stakes Jan. 5 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, the 4-year-old Giant's Causeway filly out of grade 1-placed Spritely, by Touch Gold, earned $178,693 in purses during 2018 from a record of 3-1-4 in nine starts.

After her maiden win Aug. 4, 2017, at Saratoga Race Course, it was a full year—and 10 starts—before Pauseforthecause had a winner's circle picture taken again when she was victorious in an Aug. 17 off-the-turf allowance sprint at Saratoga. That victory was the start of a good stretch that includes a 5 1/4-length win in a Sept. 14 optional-claiming allowance at Belmont Park; a strong third in the Iroquois Stakes there—defeated just a length by the in-form Highway Star; and a last-out allowance win from off the pace Dec. 8 at Aqueduct.

"We had a bit of a wind issue that we took care of, not a big surgery … and it has helped her a lot," McLaughlin said. "It was taken care of before she started winning, and she didn't miss any time.

"We also got her back on the dirt going shorter. We thought, because of her pedigree, she'd be turf, but she's better on the dirt. She's doing really well right now, and we think she belongs in this race and has a very good chance."


Entries: La Verdad S.

Aqueduct Racetrack, Saturday, January 05, 2019, Race 8

  • STK
  • 7f
  • Dirt
  • $100,000
  • 4 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 3:59 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Out of Orbit (NY) Eric Cancel 118 Philip M. Serpe 20/1
2 2Starlite Mission (NY) Christopher P. DeCarlo 118 Gary C. Contessa 12/1
3 3Kathryn the Wise (NY) Manuel Franco 120 Chad C. Brown 9/2
4 4Silly Sister (NY) Dylan Davis 118 Jeremiah C. Englehart 20/1
5 5Playinwiththeboys (NY) Reylu Gutierrez 118 Charlton Baker 15/1
6 6Palladian Bridge (NY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Sheldon Russell 118 Raymond Handal 12/1
7 7Sunset Ridge (NY) Jose Lezcano 120 Chad C. Brown 6/1
8 8Byself (NY) David Cohen 118 Michelle Nevin 6/1
9 9Satisfy (NY) Junior Alvarado 120 William I. Mott 5/2
10 10Pauseforthecause (NY) Rajiv Maragh 118 Kiaran P. McLaughlin 7/2