Constellation Stars in Las Flores
Updated: March 4, 2017 at 3:15 pm
By Christie DeBernardis
LNJ Foxwoods' Constellation (Bellamy Road) closed her sophomore season on a career high with a win in the GI La Brea S. Dec. 26 at odds of 12-1 and looks to keep that momentum going in 2017 in Santa Anita's GIII Las Flores S. Sunday. Previously trained by Steve Asmussen, the “TDN Rising Star” was transferred to Jerry Hollendorfer last spring and made a winning debut for that barn in the Phoenix S. at Turf Paradise prior to her first Grade I victory last time. The $800,000 OBSMAR buy enters off a best-of-22 five-furlong work in :59 1/5 at Los Alamitos Feb. 24.
Hall of Famer Bob Baffert will be represented by Pegram, Watson and Weitman's Pretty N Cool (Scat Daddy), a two-time Grade II winner who was last seen finishing sixth in her first turf try at Del Mar Sept. 2. Phil D'Amato also saddles a live runner in “TDN Rising Star” Sensitively (Street Sense). Last seen fading to sixth in the GIII Rancho Bernardo H. Aug. 17, the bay captured a trio of Santa Anita allowances by a combined 15 1/5 lengths.
Click here for an update on Constellation from a “Down the Shedrow” with Jerry Hollendorfer.