Gold Phoenix Rises To Challenge In Kilroe Mile

[Wandering Eyes]

GOLD PHOENIX (IRE) (g, 5, Belardo {Ire}–Magnifica, by Mizzen Mast) jumped out of the ground with an eighth of a mile to run in Saturday's GI Frank E. Kilroe Mile S. at Santa Anita and outsprinted the fast-finishing Du Jour (Temple City) for a maiden success at the top level. Beaten for speed, the chestnut settled in the second half of the field as Air Force Red (Air Force Blue) cut out a modest pace of :47.06 for the opening half-mile. Remaining glued to the fence and quietly ridden into the final three-eighths of a mile by Kazushi Kimura, Gold Phoenix traveled strongly into the lane, exploded through a hole four off the inside at the furlong grounds and found the wire a half-length to the good of Du Jour, who also displayed a sharp turn of foot to just miss.

Saturday, Santa Anita
FRANK E. KILROE MILE S.-GI, $501,500, Santa Anita, 3-4, 4yo/up, 1mT, 1:34.45, gd.
1–GOLD PHOENIX (IRE), 122, g, 5, by Belardo (Ire)
                1st Dam: Magnifica, by Mizzen Mast
                2nd Dam: Palisade, by Gone West
                3rd Dam: Peplum, by Nijinsky II
1ST GRADE I WIN. (€24,000 RNA Ylg '19 GOFSPT). O-Little Red
Feather Racing, Sterling Stables, LLC and Marsha Naify;
B-Mighty Universe Ltd (Ire); T-Philip D'Amato; J-Kazushi
Kimura. $300,000. Lifetime Record: 11-4-3-3, $675,257.
Werk Nick Rating: A++.
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2–Du Jour, 120, g, 5, Temple City–Guiltless, by Bernardini.
($19,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP; $280,000 2yo '20 OBSAPR). O-Natalie
Baffert and Debbie Lanni; B-Woods Edge Farm, LLC (KY);
T-Bob Baffert. $100,000.
3–Cabo Spirit, 122, g, 4, Pioneerof the Nile–Fancy Day (Ire),
by Shamardal. 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. ($145,000 RNA Ylg '20
KEESEP; $575,000 2yo '21 OBSAPR). O-Kretz Racing LLC;
B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-George Papaprodromou. $60,000.
Margins: NK, 3/4, NK. Odds: 10.80, 10.20, 37.30.
Also Ran: Hong Kong Harry (Ire), Air Force Red, Masteroffoxhounds, Balnikhov (Ire), Royal Ship (Brz). Scratched: Irideo (Arg).
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