PREVENTION SETS THE PACE IN NOTABLE MAIDEN
APTITUDE (61/23)
PREVENTION, Dk b. or br. f. 3, Averti, by Known Fact.
Belmont Park, 7/22, 7f, muddy, 1:26.82.
Won by 1 1/4. O—Juddmonte Farms Inc.; B—Juddmonte Farms, Inc.
(Ky.); T—Robert J. Frankel. 4-1-0-2, $37,180. Half to AVERTED VIEW
($97,877), Acerbic ($102,050), Avoidance ($27,924).
Dropping back to seven furlongs, 1.35-to-1 favorite Prevention
pressed the pace with authority as Neath Your Spell set the pace
through moderate fractions.Making a determined bid down the
stretch, Prevention dug in to draw clear by 11⁄4 lengths in late
stretch.
The Known Fact mare Averti is the dam of Prevention, stakes
winner Averted View, and stakes-placed winners Acerbic and
Avoidance. Her second dam is Grade 1 winner Safe Play, by Sham, the
dam of Grade 1 winner and sire Defensive Play.
Date:
24 July 2006