Florida-bred Social Fortress Enters Off Dominant Maiden Special Weight Performance
BY BROCK SHERIDAN
After losing her rider at the start of the $175,000 Schuylerville, Florida-bred Whatintheliteral looks to return to her stakes-winning form Sunday when she faces eight other 2-year-old fillies in the Grade 3 Adirondack at Saratoga Race Course. The Jena Antonucci-trained filly won the $150,000 Astoria at Saratoga on June 6 but was unable to repeat that victory after stumbling badly at the start of the Schuylerville, tossing rider Javier Castellano.
The $200,000 Adirondack will also act as the fourth match-up between Whatintheliteral and Schuylerville-winner The Queens M G, who is the 7-2 second choice in the six-and-a-half-furlong contest.
The Queens M G finished seventh in the Astoria after encountering trouble at the start and won a Keeneland maiden special weight in April in which Whatintheliteral was fifth in the first career start for both.
By Lord Nelson out of Lilikoi, by Frued, Whatintheliteral was bred in Florida by Bella Inizio Farm LLC. She is currently owned by horseOlogy Racing and Craig Steinhart, for who she has earned $89,129 from one win in four starts with one third.
Whatintheliteral is 8-1 on the morning line and will be ridden for the time by John Velazquez. She has drawn post one.
Trained by Saffie Joseph Jr. The Queens M G has earned $144,380 in her three races for C Two Racing Stable and Mathis Stable LLC.
From the first crop by Florida-bred stallion Thousand Words out of Show Queen, by Grindstone, The Queens M G has post nine and will be ridden by Dylan Davis.
Florida-bred Social Fortress makes her second career start after thrashing a maiden special weight field of filly at Delaware Park on July 13 in a race taken off the turf and run at five furlongs.
The daughter of Briardale Farm stallion Social Inclusion is out of Cold Hearted Pearl, by Parading and is a homebred for Joseph M. Imbesi. She is trained by Jamie Ness and earned $24,000 in her lone start.
Social Fortress will be ridden by Ricardo Santana Jr. from post five and she is 6-1 on the morning line.
Wesley Ward will saddle the expected favorite in White Sands, a nearly 14-length winner of the $101,000 Prairie Gold Juvenile at Prairie Meadows in her last start on July 6. The daughter of Into Mischief won her debut by nearly 10 lengths against maiden special weight fillies at Belterra Park on May 25 in her only other starts.
White Sands is 3-1 in the program and has earned $70,354 in her two victories. She has post eight and jockey Frankie Detorri.
Completing the Adirondack field are Italian Soiree, who will be ridden by Flavien Prat; Atomic City and jockey Luis Saez, Irad Ortiz Jr. rides Dare to Breeze, Social Fortress will have Ricardo Santana Jr. aboard, Javier Castellano has chosen to ride Aguas de Cristal and Anakarina with jockey Tyler Gaffalione.
