Big A's Distaff Has Holiday Feel

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Photo: Coglianese Photos/Elsa Lorieul
Holiday Disguise winning the Feb. 16 Broadway Stakes for state-breds

Aqueduct's April 5, $150,000 Distaff Handicap (G3), to be run the day before the track's stakes-packed Wood Memorial Presented by NYRA Bets (G2) card, has a "Holiday" feel despite being run on a Friday afternoon.

Heading the field of nine older runners is Lady Sheila Stable's Holiday Disguise, a 5-year-old Harlan's Holiday mare who was named 2018 champion New York-bred female sprinter and older dirt female April 1 in Saratoga Springs. In fact, five of the runners are products of the New York state breeding program.

Bred by Dr. Bill Wilmot and Dr. Joan Taylor, Holiday Disguise won last year's Distaff by a length. In her lone start of the year she rallied from eighth early to win the Feb. 16 Broadway Stakes for state-breds by 4 1/4 lengths, earning a 100 Equibase Speed Figure for the six furlongs. Adding an extra furlong here should suit as she's three-for-three at the specialty distance.

Linda Rice trains Holiday Disguise, as well as Split Time, and Startwithsilver, another state-bred who comes to the Distaff on short notice. The Jump Start  mare edged Yorkiepoo Princess by a neck in the March 16 Correction Stakes at six panels. Startwithsilver was fifth in the Broadway.

Lawrence Goichman's Kathryn the Wise, a New York-bred by Uncle Mo , smoked seven furlongs in 1:25.22 Jan. 5 while taking the La Verdad Stakes by 10 3/4 lengths.  


Entries: Distaff H. (G3)

Aqueduct Racetrack, Friday, April 05, 2019, Race 8

  • Grade III
  • 7f
  • Dirt
  • $150,000
  • 4 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 5:15 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Split Time (NY) Rajiv Maragh 118 Linda Rice 8/1
2 2Holiday Disguise (NY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jose Lezcano 118 Linda Rice 8/1
3 3Rosyjersey (NY) Joey R. Martinez 112 Susan F. Ouellette 30/1
4 4Startwithsilver (NY) Eric Cancel 117 Linda Rice 6/1
5 5Come Dancing (KY) Manuel Franco 118 Carlos F. Martin 3/1
6 6Yorkiepoo Princess (FL) Dylan Davis 118 Edward R. Barker 8/1
7 7Kathryn the Wise (NY) Irad Ortiz, Jr. 117 Chad C. Brown 5/2
8 8Pacific Gale (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joe Bravo 118 John C. Kimmel 15/1
9 9Dawn the Destroyer (KY) Junior Alvarado 119 Kiaran P. McLaughlin 9/2