Petruchio returns to turf
At 0h05, on April 25, 2021 • By SANTA ANITA
A graded stakes-placed runner on dirt and a winner on turf, Richard Mandella’s Petruchio returns to what may be his preferred surface as he heads a field of six sophomores going one mile on grass in Sunday’s $100,000 Singletary Stakes at Santa Anita.
Owned by his breeders, Perry R. and Ramona S. Bass, Petruchio broke his maiden three starts back going one mile on turf at Del Mar on Oct. 31 and was subsequently third, beaten 3 ½ lengths by Spielberg in the Grade II Los Alamitos Futurity at a mile and one sixteenth on dirt Dec. 19.
Off at 3-1 in the El Camino Real Derby at a mile and one eighth on Tapeta Feb. 13, Petruchio pressed the early pace and tired badly to finish sixth, beaten 13 ¼ lengths.
In what will be his second start of the year, Petruchio will be reunited with Mike Smith, who rode him in both his maiden win and in the Los Al Futurity.
A Kentucky-bred gelding by Into Mischief, out of the Distorted Humor mare Satirical, Petruchio, who was Triple Crown nominated, is 6-1-1-3, with earnings of $82,850.
