Impulse Buy will be looking to back up a double-digit maiden win with a stakes victory Saturday, when she starts in the $150,000 Tempted at the Belmont meet at Aqueduct.
The one-turn mile for 2-year-old fillies is one of four stakes on an 11-race card that has a special first post of 11:20 a.m. Eastern on Breeders’ Cup Saturday.
“We thought this was the next step distance-wise,” trainer Rodolphe Brisset said.
The Tempted is one of the card’s three stakes for 2-year-olds, alongside the $150,000 Nashua and $135,000 Stewart Manor.
Impulse Buy is part of a field of nine that includes Grade 3 winner The Queens M G. She enters off an 11-length win in an Oct. 5 maiden special weight at Keeneland. For her wire-to-wire win, Impulse Buy earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 83.
“She’s always shown some talent,” Brisset said. “We thought she was one, two of the best fillies in our 2-year-old group and she just proved it.”
The Tempted is an opportunity to test Impulse Buy over more distance, while remaining at one turn.
“The thing with her is, we know the family well,” Brisset said. “We trained a couple of her siblings and they never really wanted to run two turns. Physically, and the way she trains, she’s telling me she’s a two-turn horse. But we have been tricked by the family before, so I just thought that this was the perfect spot to get her up to a mile and staying at one turn.
“We could have kept her sprinting, we could have gone two turns right away. But this spot is really actually the perfect spot for her, to see if she wants to go that far first, without trying two turns right away.”
Impulse Buy is a WinStar homebred by Speightstown. Her dam, Jojo Warrior, was a Grade 2 winner at two turns who earned nearly $400,000.
Jose Lezcano has the mount on Impulse Buy from post 9.
“She’s got natural speed,” Brisset said. “It’s a good post to see who’s doing what.
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“We have breezed her off of another horse. She sat off company. It worked very well, [so] we can give to Lezcano some options. We know the filly can sit off of it, too.”
Stunner could be showing the way when she breaks from the rail. She wired a maiden special weight at 6 1/2 furlongs last out, and the Beyer of 86 that she earned is the best career number in the Tempted.
Pure Majestic won the Selima, a one-turn mile at Laurel, on Sept. 28. She is a half-sister to Tonalist’s Shape, a Grade 2 winner of more than $400,000. Beautiful Blome won the White Clay Creek, a two-turn mile stakes, last out at Delaware Park.
The Nashua, also a one-turn mile, drew five, led by the undefeated It’s Hammertime. He has won all three of his starts, and two of those wins have come in stakes. He exits the Rocky Run, a two-turn mile at Delaware Park.
Tony Eclipse, who was second in the Rocky Run, also entered the Nashua. Before that race, he won his maiden at a one-turn-mile configuration at Laurel.
The supplemental nominees Studlydoright and filly Whatintheliteral are the winners of the respective Tremont and Astoria on the same card in June at Saratoga.
Stewart Manor
Trainer Carlos David will send out the capable Me Governor and Blossoming Erudite in the Stewart Manor, which is for 2-year-old fillies at six furlongs on the outer turf.
The race drew nine, including Yougottahavehope, third in the Grade 3 Matron at Aqueduct, and Annascaul, a close sixth in the Grade 1 Natalma at Woodbine.
Me Governor owns the field’s best last-race Beyer, a 74, for a more than five-length win in a Gulfstream Park turf sprint allowance Sept. 29.
“I think her numbers fit this race,” David said. “I think she’s going to be amongst the favorites.”
Me Governor shipped to Gulfstream after David could not find a suitable race for her following a third-place finish in the Colleen in July at Monmouth and a fourth in the Bolton Landing in August at Saratoga.
“She was able to pick up a check in the Colleen, ran third and got some black type that day,” David said. “We decided to come back and run in Saratoga, a stakes there on the grass and it came off the grass. We ran, with her having won the maiden race on the dirt. Not all horses like Saratoga when it’s wet a little bit. She ran decently, got a decent number.
“After that, I couldn’t find a race anywhere around that area – of New Jersey, where she was training – and decided to bring her to Florida and she won the allowance very well.”
Blossoming Erudite is coming off a maiden special weight win at six furlongs on turf at Aqueduct.
“That was not an easy maiden race that day, and she was able to win that race,” David said.
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