{"id":1396,"date":"2016-01-17T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linda-rice.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2016-01-17T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T21:32:00","slug":"la-verdad-grabs-female-sprinter-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/la-verdad-grabs-female-sprinter-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"La Verdad Grabs Female Sprinter Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIoYc8WP9mk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite faltering late in the Breeders&#8217; Cup World Championships, Lady Sheila Stable&#8217;s star <span id=\"horse-8875748\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\"><a title=\"La Verdad | BloodHorse.com Horse Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/thoroughbred\/la-verdad\/2010?source=BHonline\">La Verdad<\/a><\/span> dominated the female sprint division all year in New York. Her year&#8217;s work was good enough for her to be named champion female sprinter.<\/p>\n<p>The New York-bred daughter of <span id=\"horse-4037092\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\">Yes It&#8217;s True<\/span> joins Indian Blessing (2008) as only the second champion filly sprinter who didn&#8217;t win the Breeders&#8217; Cup Filly &amp; Mare Sprint (gr. I).<\/p>\n<p>A private purchase by Sheila Rosenblum&#8217;s Lady Sheila Stable by trainer Linda Rice, La Verdad has ruled the roost around one turn in New York since April 2014 when she landed her first of two Distaff Handicaps (gr. II) at <span class=\"bloodhorse-racetrack\">Aqueduct<\/span>. Alternating between graded company and state-bred stakes competition, she has won 10 stakes and ran second in three more, earning just under $1.4 million in 20 outings. She made four starts for her breeder, Mark Vondrasek&#8217;s Eklektikos Stable.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 La Verdad was never headed in her first four outings, which included repeats going six furlongs in the Distaff Handicap and in the Dancin Renee Stakes for state-breds. She finished first in the grade II Honorable Miss Handicap at <span class=\"bloodhorse-racetrack\"><a title=\"Saratoga Race Course | BloodHorse.com Track Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/racetracks\/24\/saratoga-race-course\">Saratoga Race Course<\/a><\/span> but was disqualified following a positive test for clenbuterol.<\/p>\n<p>More wins followed in the Gallant Bloom<span class=\"reset\">\u2014<\/span>against fellow sprint filly nominee <span id=\"horse-9077897\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\"><a title=\"Wavell Avenue | BloodHorse.com Horse Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/thoroughbred\/wavell-avenue\/2011?source=BHonline\">Wavell Avenue<\/a><\/span><span class=\"reset\">\u2014<\/span>and the Iroquois Stakes against state-breds, setting the stage for Rosenblum&#8217;s ultimate goal, a grade I win in the TwinSpires Breeders&#8217; Cup Filly &amp; Mare Sprint. Tackling seven furlongs for the first time in 14 months, La Verdad and Jose Ortiz held a commanding lead late, but were run down by 10-1 Wavell Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>As La Verdad headed toward the breeding shed in 2016, Rosenblum and Rice weren&#8217;t quite ready to let go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She trained well; we kept her in New York and made plans to breed her to <span id=\"horse-4823628\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\"><a title=\"Medaglia d'Oro | StallionRegister.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/stallion-register\/stallions\/132019\">Medaglia d&#8217;Oro<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"equinelineLink\" title=\"EquineLine Reports for Medaglia d&amp;#39;Oro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.equineline.com\/dotReportProductSelectionDisplay.cfm?horse_name=Medaglia+d%26%2339%3bOro&amp;YOB=1999&amp;breed_type=TB&amp;horse_type=I&amp;ASCID=1443262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">\u00a0<\/a><\/span>,&#8221; Rice said. &#8220;Sheila and I spoke about it and said, &#8216;Well, she&#8217;s doing so well, let&#8217;s see if we can win a race or two with her before she goes.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>La Verdad won the Jan. 9 Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct and is slated to appear in the Feb. 13 Barbara Fritchie Stakes (gr. II) at Laurel Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Voting totals in female sprinter division:<\/strong> La Verdad, 98; Wavell Avenue, 90; <span id=\"horse-9339884\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\"><a title=\"Lady Shipman | BloodHorse.com Horse Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/thoroughbred\/lady-shipman\/2012?source=BHonline\">Lady Shipman<\/a><\/span> 41; <span id=\"horse-9270984\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\"><a title=\"Cavorting | BloodHorse.com Horse Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/thoroughbred\/cavorting\/2012?source=BHonline\">Cavorting<\/a><\/span>, 19; <span id=\"horse-9109634\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\"><a title=\"Unbridled Forever | BloodHorse.com Horse Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/thoroughbred\/unbridled-forever\/2011?source=BHonline\">Unbridled Forever<\/a><\/span>, 5;<span id=\"horse-8578392\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\"><a title=\"Ageless | BloodHorse.com Horse Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/thoroughbred\/ageless\/2009?source=BHonline\">Ageless<\/a><\/span>, 1; <span id=\"horse-1253335\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\">Birdonthewire<\/span>, 1; <span id=\"horse-9317317\" class=\"bloodhorse-horse\"><a title=\"Fantastic Style | BloodHorse.com Horse Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/thoroughbred\/fantastic-style\/2012?source=BHonline\">Fantastic Style<\/a><\/span>, 1; voter abstentions, 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/articles\/97141\/la-verdad-grabs-female-sprinter-championship\">http:\/\/www.bloodhorse.com\/horse-racing\/articles\/97141\/la-verdad-grabs-female-sprinter-championship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Despite faltering late in the Breeders&#8217; Cup World Championships, Lady Sheila Stable&#8217;s star La Verdad dominated the female sprint division all year in New York. Her year&#8217;s work was good enough for her to be named champion female sprinter.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lindarice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}