HoofprintsInc.com
by Sarah Mace
Galiana, top earner for her New York sire Stonesider (Saratoga Stud, LLC), continued to dominate her home base of Delaware Park when she won the $50,000 Dashing Beauty Stakes for the second straight year with a strong late rally. The victory ran up her record to eight wins and a second from nine starts over the Wilmington main oval.
Owned and trained by Rodolfo Romero, the 8-5 favorite bided her time early under jockey Carol Cedeno, traveling in fifth behind a scrum of leaders through scorching early fractions of 22.06 and 44.47.
Swinging out as much as six- or seven-wide for the run to the wire, the 5-year-old mare simply rocketed home in the stretch on the grandstand side to win by three-quarters of a length in a final time of 1:09.35 for six furlongs.
Galiana, now five, has won 14 of 27 career races, including ten tries at six furlongs, and earned $571,621. In addition to a pair of victories in the Dashing Beauty Stakes and Sweet and Sassy Stakes at Delaware, she won the Primonetta and Skipat Stakes in back-to-back starts at Pimlico this year.
Bred by John T. Behrendt and Charles Marquis and foaled at Anne Morgan and Tim Little’s Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater, Galiana is out of Baby Jess, an unraced Argentinian-bred daughter of Interprete (ARG). A full sister to Galiana has won in Argentina.
