HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida, CMC – Barbadian champion trainer Saffie Joseph Jr tasted victory on Saturday when Andrea won the $100,000 Hallandale Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Any doubts about whether Andrea could carry her speed to a mile in the stakes for 2-year-old fillies were erased when the undefeated and still untested 2-year-old completely dominated the race by 7 3/4 lengths.
Andrea broke cleanly from the starting gate and shook off a few early challengers to assume the lead on the backstretch on her way to setting fractions of 24.05 and 46.79 seconds for the first half-mile.
Jockey Emisael Jaramillo only needed to shake the reins at the top of the stretch for Andrea to respond with a powerful stretch run.
The 3-5 favourite ran a mile in 1:38.83 over a good main track. Whatintheliteral finished a distant second ahead of Kip the Distance.
Andrea, owned in partnership with C2 Racing, Kuehne Racing and Mark Corrado, was purchased at the OBS April sale for $105 000.
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