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Originally Posted by Balletto
You sure its not a recent Grand Gala? Or do you have the name confused? Grand Gala is a 2001 homebred for the Phipps by Dixieland Band out of Fantastic Find... and she was a winner once in 4 starts from what I can see.
Speaking of Shug trained fillies... I always heard Matlatcha Pass was one of the fastest horses the Phipps ever had... "freakishly fast" is what I was told. But she was also one of their most unsound horses. She only raced 3 times... in a sad point to that unsoundness, Matlacha Pass is/was the dam of the ill-fated Pine Island.
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I'm positive that it was back around 1991. I remember reading about her in that Racing Times publication. Maybe I have the name wrong or maybe they changed her name but that has stuck in my head for all this time.
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