Betsy Blue stretches out in $100K Interborough
At 0h02, on January 19, 2023 • By AQUEDUCT
Cloud Nine Stable’s Betsy Blue will see added ground as she seeks to begin her 5-year-old season on the right foot in Saturday’s $100,000 Interborough for fillies and mares 4-years-old upward going seven furlongs over the main track at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Betsy Blue, who boasts a record of 20-9-7-2 and field-best earnings of $604,510, enters off a 1 1/4-length triumph in the six-furlong Garland of Roses on December 10 here. The daughter of Tonalist took to the rear of the five-horse field, moving off the rail into the stretch and collared pacesetter Beguine in the final strides to the wire.
Bred in New York by Blue Devil Racing Stable, Betsy Blue was claimed by Rice out of a Big A starter optional claimer for $50,000 in March 2021. Two starts later, she earned her first stakes conquest when capturing the Bouwerie that May at Belmont Park by 5 1/4 lengths.
She competed mainly against open company last year, including a six-length romp in August at Saratoga Race Course going the Interborough distance that earned a career-best 96 Beyer Speed Figure.
Betsy Blue will be piloted by Jose Lezcano from post 5.
