Fluffy Socks kicks off 2021 season in $100K Memories of Silver
At 0h05, on April 18, 2021 • By AQUEDUCT
Head of Plains Partners’ homebred filly Fluffy Socks looks to get her year started in style in Sunday’s sixth running of the $100,000 Memories of Silver over the inner turf at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The 1 1/16-mile event for 3-year-old fillies closes out stakes action on Closing Day of the 11-day spring meet at Aqueduct. The program also includes the $200,000 NYSSS Park Avenue for New York-bred 3-year-old fillies going 6 ½ furlongs over the main track.
Trained by Chad Brown, who saddled Consumer Credit [2015] and Significant Form [2018] to Memories of Silver triumphs, Fluffy Socks makes her 2021 debut after capping her juvenile campaign with a win in the Grade 3 Jimmy Durante on November 28 at Del Mar. Piloted by Irad Ortiz, Jr., the bay daughter of Slumber saved ground along the rail toward the rear of the field, angled wide in upper stretch and took command around the eighth-pole, holding off a furious late inside rally from Javanica to win the one-mile event by a half-length.
A winner of three starts all over different turf courses, Fluffy Socks broke her maiden at second asking going one mile at Kentucky Downs before capturing the Selima over a yielding turf at Pimlico Race Course.
Ortiz, Jr. has been aboard Fluffy Socks for three of her five starts and retains the mount from post 1.
