Magic Attitude faces five other graded stakes winners in G2 Sheepshead Bay
At 0h04, on April 30, 2021 • By BELMONT PARK
Lael Stables’ Magic Attitude will seek a return to winning form over familiar ground, taking on an all-graded stakes-winning field in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Sheepshead Bay for older fillies and mares going 1 3/8 miles over the inner turf course at Belmont Park.
Trained by Arnaud Delacour, Magic Attitude is the lone Grade 1-winner in the six-horse field, capturing her North American debut in last year’s Belmont Oaks Invitational in September.
The daughter of prolific international sire Galileo rallied from last-of-5 in that race, displaying a powerful turn of foot in mid-stretch, crossing the wire a 2 1/2 length winner. The same late-running strategy was utilized next out in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup on October 10 at Keeneland, but she could not replicate the winning push of her prior start, finishing third, 1 1/4 lengths back to Harvey’s Lil Goil.
Magic Attitude arrives at the Sheepshead Bay off her 2021 debut in the Grade 2 Hillsborough on March 6 at Tampa Bay Downs, where she rode the rail throughout most of the journey, lacked racing room in upper stretch and made a late bid in between horses to finish a close seventh.
The Sheepshead Bay is slated as Race 10 on Belmont’s 11-race Saturday program. First post is 12:20 p.m.
