7 Days Rest

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by jwkniska

A few years ago, Biancone/Stevens won the G1 Beverly D at AP, on Angara, a horse that ran a graded stakes at the Spa 7 days earlier.
I tossed the horse due to running a week earlier... dumb move, as it cost me the special pick 4.

Angara was actually coming back off a 2 week layoff and she had run some races spaced together quite closely that year. After winning an allowance race in fine fashion she came back and won the Bewitch less than two weeks later at Keeneland. She then ran about three weeks after that in the Sheepshead Bay at Belmont and came flying late to run 2nd. Three weeks later she faced the boys in the Manhattan and came up empty in the stretch but finished 5th. The Diana was the race she exited at Saratoga prior to winning the Beverly D and she ran an exceptional race to run 3rd behind Sand Springs, who got away with murder on the front end.

I was a big Angara fan- mostly to my own detriment. There was only one happy moment in 2005- the Beverly D.

NT