La Verdad Wins Easily and Becomes Millionaire

DANCIN RENEE S., $100,000, BEL, 6-28, (S), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:10.27, sy.
1–LA VERDAD, 123, m, 5, Yes It's True–Noble Fire
(SP), by Hook and Ladder. O-Lady Sheila Stable;
B-Eklektikos Stable LLC (NY); T-Linda Rice; J-Jose L.
Ortiz. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 19-13-2-0,
$1,050,700. *1/2 to Hot City Girl (City Zip), MSP,
$134,150.

2–Make the Moment, 119, m, 5, Indygo Shiner–Pretty
Pretty, by Silver Deputy. ($27,000 RNA Ylg '11
SARAUG; $50,000 2yo '12 OBSMAR). O-Charlton
Baker; B-Gallagher's Stud (NY); T-Charlton Baker.
$20,000.
3–Miss Da Point, 117, m, 5, Strong Contender–Long
Distance Love, by Dehere. O-Bran Jam Stable &
David W Clark; B-James Roberts (NY); T-John T.
Toscano, Jr. $10,000.
Margins: 7 1/4, NK, HF. Odds: 0.10, 18.30, 13.30.
Also Ran: Here's Zealicious, Hot Rendezvous, Court Dancer, Uncle Southern.
La Verdad, a three-time graded stakes winner, eclipsed the $1 million mark in earnings with an easy score over fellow Empire-breds Sunday afternoon. The bay won the GII Distaff H. for a second straight year over this trip at Aqueduct Apr. 18 and recently led wire-to-wire in the 6 1/2-panel GIII Vagrancy H. here May 16. The 5-year-old towered over the others on paper and was sent postward as the heavy favorite in this spot. Away to a good start, La Verdad set the pace through a quarter-mile in :22.91 and effortlessly pulled clear to a 7 1/4-length score over Make the Moment. “I was happy she won as easily as she did because, frankly, this is a race we were just trying to use to get her to Saratoga in better condition than we were last year, going toward the GII Honorable Miss S. and hopefully the GI Ballerina S.,” commented winning trainer Linda Rice. “We didn't want it to be a hard race on her, and elected to stay here rather than go to the GII Princess Rooney H. [at Gulfstream].” Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.