Connie Swingle prominent in Saturday’s $85,000 Unzip Stakes
At 0h05, on October 1, 2022 • By SANTA ANITA
In what certainly appears to be the best betting race of the day, California-bred Connie Swingle could rate top billing as she tries to remain unbeaten down Santa Anita’s unique 6 ½ furlong downhill turf course in Saturday’s $85,000 Unzip Me Stakes. With 11 three-year-old fillies engaged, the Unzip Me, which has been carded as race nine on a 10-race program, appears to be a wide-open affair.
Owned and bred by Nick Alexander, Connie Swingle pressed the pace and went on to an authoritative half length allowance win going five furlongs on turf at Del Mar Sept. 2 and has trained well into the Unzip Me.
By Grazen out of the Sky Mesa mare Sky Marni, Connie Swingle has been a gem of consistency on both turf and dirt, never finishing off the board in eight starts while posting a race record of 5-2-1. Connie Swingle, who will be ridden by regular rider Kyle Frey, seeks her second stakes win and her first in open company.
