June 6 Insights: Auspicious Ghostzapper Filly Aims to Replicate Siblings’ Success in Belmont Debut

Wandering Eyes · June 4, 2019

4th-BEL, $90k, 3yo/up, f/m, 6 1/2f, 4:38 EST

A contentious field of well-bred maiden fillies will line up at Belmont Thursday. LIZA JAMBALAYA (Ghostzapper) is a sibling to two Grade I winning millionaire sprinters in Paulassilverlining (Ghostzapper) and Dads Caps (Discreet Cat). A homebred for Vincent Scuderi, the chestnut filly is trained by Rudy Rodriguez, the same conditioner who guided Dads Caps to his greatest career victories in the 2014 and 2015 renditions of the GI Carter H.

The always dangerous Chad Brown looks to have a live entrant in this maiden event with Trial and Error (Uncle Mo), a full-sister to Grade I winner Dream Tree. A $150,000 KEENOV’16 purchase, the Klaravich Stables-owned filly has been training towards her debut up at Saratoga.

Gainesway Stable and Andrew Rosen’s My Happy Place (Tapit) makes the first start of her career after selling for $575,000 at the 2017 Keeneland September sale. The Shug McGaughey trainee is out of GSW, $583,437 earner and ‘TDN Rising Star’ My Happy Face (Tiz Wonderful).

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5th-BEL $90k, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 5:10 EST

Running for the same connections as her hard-knocking millionaire dam, YGRITTE (Tapit) heads to the post for the first time Thursday at Belmont. The chestnut filly is the first foal produced by Shel Evans’s multiple graded stakes-winning and two-time Sovereign Award champion mare Irish Mission (Giant’s Causeway).

Another contender with a compelling pedigree is the Kiaran McLaughlin-trained MADAME ORBE (Orb). The $260,000 buy is a half-sister to multiple Grade I winning grass specialist Divisidero (Kitten’s Joy).

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