Kept Waiting seeks second straight stakes win in $100K Correction
At 0h03, on March 10, 2022 • By AQUEDUCT
Sanford Goldfarb and Irwin Goldfarb’s Kept Waiting will strive to keep her upward trajectory afloat, attempting a second stakes conquest in Saturday’s $100,000 Correction for older fillies and mares going six furlongs at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The 5-year-old Broken Vow mare has won her last three starts by a combined 18 1/2 lengths. She captured a sloppy and sealed edition of the Broadway on February 13 last out against New York-breds only one week following her main track debut in a first level allowance victory against open company. She rounded out her 2021 campaign on a winning note, defeating New York-breds on the Aqueduct outer turf in a December 2 allowance optional claimer.
Trainer Robert Falcone, Jr., who claimed Kept Waiting for $40,000 in September 2020, said his mare has shown consistency over different track conditions.
“It’s good that she doesn’t mind the slop,” Falcone, Jr. said. “Any horse that can win on the grass, fast track and the slop, makes for a pretty unique situation. She’s done it at good levels as well, 1x and 2x on the grass. She has wins on the dirt, turf and a stakes win on the slop, so she’s going up in class and her form is getting better.”
In her first start for Falcone, Jr., Kept Waiting found the winner’s circle in a seven-furlong New York-bred maiden event in October 2020 at Belmont Park, en route to a third-place finish at Santa Anita the following January. She returned to Belmont in April 2021 with a victory over the Widener turf and did not race until October when a disappointing fifth as the favorite over the Belmont inner turf.
“She came out of her last race in good shape. She’s gotten a little more mature and grew up a bit,” Falcone, Jr. said. “We flew her out cross country to California and horses respond different to everything. She won her next start at Belmont, but we felt that she needed a break after that. She needed her first race off the layoff, but after that she was fit enough.”
Bred in the Empire State by John Lauriello, Kept Waiting is out of the Malibu Moon mare Orient Moon.
Kendrick Carmouche has the call from post 6.
