NEWS: RACING

Haveyougoneaway rallies to win Oaklawn’s Spring Fever Stakes going away

Saturday, February 20th, 2016
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By Sarah Mace

Haveyougoneaway (Congrats) posed for her second straight stakes win photo at the Oaklawn meet on Saturday after coming from off the pace to best odds-on favorite Thirteen Arrows by 2 3/4 lengths in the featured $100,000 Spring Fever Stakes.

Cutting down marginally from six furlongs (the distance at which she won last month’s American Beauty by a neck win over Grade 2 winner Sarah Sis) to 5 1/2 panels, Haveyougoneaway allowed others to contest the top spot in the early stages, cruising comfortably in midpack among eight filly-and-mare rivals, all led by Thirteen Arrows.

Angling out five wide exiting the far turn, the 5-year-old mare found her best gear in the stretch and advanced into second. She overhauled the favorite in the final furlong with gusto and went on to win going away in a final time of 1:04.28.

Haveyougoneaway is trained by Allen Milligan for Champion Racing Stable and ridden regularly by Jareth Loveberry, who believes the mare is really coming into her own at age five.

Said Loveberry, “She’s getting a lot more confidence in herself. “Before, she was trying to make her move too early. Now, she’s just really confident with herself.”

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Haveyougoneaway has won two stakes in her last three starts, with her lone loss during that time coming when fifth to Thirteen Arrows when she shipped in to contest the Zia Park Distaff in late November in New Mexico.

“Turns out she’s just not a shipper,” Milligan said earlier in the week. “You just can’t ship and run her. She kind of needs to be settled in and training where she’s running. She’s getting a hold of this racetrack [at Oaklawn] very good, and she’s getting a lot of confidence about what she’s doing.”

Haveyougoneaway’s career record stands at eight wins, two seconds and six thirds from 21 career starts with three stakes wins and four stakes placings. Her bankroll has climbed to a robust $372,425.

Bred by Andy and Susan Beadnell and foaled at Bead Land & Cattle Company in Pottersville, Haveyougoneaway is the most accomplished of two winners out of One Wise Cowgirl, an unraced New York-bred daughter of Wiseman’s Ferry also bred by the Beadnells.

A $50,000 weanling at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed sale in 2011, the mare was brought $105,000 as a yearling at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred preferred yearling sale. Champion Racing Stable, Inc. purchased Haveyougoneaway as a 2-year-old for a mere $1,200 at the 2013 Keeneland November sale.

 

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