Come to Mischief couldn’t have been more impressive in her racing debut, easily taking the featured $125,000 My Dear Stakes Sunday at Woodbine.
Ridden by Tyler Pizarro, Come to Mischief, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Into Mischief-One Act Play, blasted from the gate in the five furlong open stake for two-year-old fillies and was never threatened, eventually winning by six lengths over Avisionofchocolate, while clocked in :57.19 over the Polytrack.
Conquest Soprano wound up third, three lengths further back, while favoured Maymont, a $320,000 yearling purchase making her debut as well, wound up a distant sixth.
Leaving from the rail, the winner and longest shot in the seven-horse field at 18-1 sizzled an opening quarter in :22.14, then got to the half in a blazing :44.84.
Trained by Nick Gonzalez for his wife Martha and Horse’n Around Racing Stable, Come to Mischief was an $11,000 Keeneland yearling purchase. She more than paid that back while earning $75,000 for the win.
“I didn’t really know much about her,” explained Pizarro. “Martha just said she’s pretty quick in the mornings. So I just tried to keep her calm and cool on post parade. I gave her a good warm-up. She broke sharply. There was a little commotion on the outside of us, which kind of gave me the lead. It’s been a speed-favouring track all day so she just carried on. She’s a very nice filly.”
Added co-owner Harvey Swartz, of Horse’n Around Racing, “Four years ago, Tyler (Pizarro) came in second (for us) with Hippolytus in the (2011) Queen’s Plate. So this is the second time he’s worn the colours. It’s very lucky. I told Martha in the spring, ‘I haven’t won the My Dear since Prospective Dolly (in 1989)’. She said, ‘You put the pressure on me.’ She looks like a nice horse.”
Come to Mischief paid $39.40, $16.20 and $9.30, combining with Avisionofchocolate ($6.70, $5.50) for a $209.60 (1-3) exactor. A 1-3-4 (Conquest Soprano, $3.80) triactor was worth $964.20, while a $1 Superfecta [1-3-4-2 (New Threads)] lit up the toteboard, returning $1,764.10.
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