Last year's champion three year old filly, Proud Spell (Proud Citizen-Pacific Spell, by Langfuhr), will make her 2009 debut in Thursday's feature at Oaklawn, a mile and a sixteenth allowance/optional claimer.
Regular rider Gabe Saez will be up as she breaks from post six in the field of seven. Proud Spell has never been worse than third in 12 career starts while racking up wins in races such as the Kentucky Oaks, Alabama and Matron.
It's good to see this girl back. She adds more flavor to an already loaded Distaff division; after this, the plan is to take on Zenyatta (Street Cry-Vertigineux, by Forli) in the Apple Blossom.
Proud Spell is clearly the class in this event; she'll be the prohibitive favorite and should win easily in this. But just to bring you up to speed on her some of her competition; Devil House (Chester House-Diablo's Bobett, by Diablo) won the Bassinet as a two year old, the Martha Washington and Dixie Belle at three, and the Happy Princess and Lighthouse and ran third in the Kentucky Cup Distaff last year. Superior Storm (Stormy Atlantic-Alittlebitsuperior, by Total Departure) has shone on the Louisiana-bred circuit, taking the Louisiana Breeders' Oaks, Louisiana Champions Ladies Day stakes, Louisiana Premiere Night Starlet, Abadie Memorial and Fantasia Stakes. She took the Premiere Night Distaff in her 2009 debut. Kathleens Reel (Lemon Drop Kid-Coral Sea, by Rubiano) won some ungraded stakes two years ago.
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