Galiana continues Delaware Park reign with repeat in Dashing Beauty

by Sarah Mace

Galiana, top earner for her New York sire Stonesider[2] (Saratoga Stud[3], 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[4] 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.

Source URL: https://www.nytbreeders.org/news/2015/07/11/galiana-dashing-beauty-15/

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