NYRA/Adam Coglianese
By Sarah Mace
Everything’s Cricket Racing’s Flatterywillgetyou (Flatter) drove her winning streak to four with a confident victory in the seven-furlong, $125,000 Bouwerie Stakes which attracted eight New York-bred 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park on Monday aftertoon.
Third on debut at Aqueduct on December 20, the Linda Rice trainee has done nothing but win ever since, breaking her maiden in the slop on the Aqueduct inner in January, scoring a tenacious head victory in a first-level state-bred allowance in February and, after a brief freshening, blowing away a field of open allowance horses at her longest distance so far, 6 1/2 furlongs.
With Cornelio Velasquez in the irons, the chestnut filly (7-2) got out of the gate cleanly and sat a stalking second just a half-length behind pacesetter Bag of Tricks who clocked the first quarter in 23.12.
Three furlongs from home, Flatterywillgetyou assumed a narrow lead, opened up some daylight and had plenty left in the tank to hold off Absatootly, who closed into second, and prevail by a length. Wonderment finished third. Frosty Margarita, Bag of Tricks, Super Allison, Langfirst and Gregorian Gold completed the order of finish. After six panels in 1:10.80, the final time was 1:23.42. [VIDEO]
Velasquez said, “Every time she runs, she’s better than she was. She’s [improving] all the time. She’s run only five times and has four wins. She comes from behind great. She’s a nice filly.”
Trainer Linda Rice commented, “I’m very pleased. Bag of Tricks and Frosty Margarita are nice fillies, so I thought she had a pretty big job ahead of her today. Her last two races have been pretty powerful. I think she likes the outer track and the big sweeping turns at Belmont rather than the inner track at Aqueduct. Seven-eighths is a good distance for her.”
Bred by First Class Thoroughbreds LLC, Flatterywillgetyou is one of five winners and the first black type winner out of Tres Chaud (French Deputy). Her Northern Afleet foal Accelebrate is stakes placed. Flatterywillgetyou changed hands once via public auction, purchased by Lexicon Stable as a weanling at the Fasig-Tipton fall mixed sale in Saratoga for $75,000. From four wins and a third she has earned $193,900.
