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Trainer Linda Rice gives praise to her champion filly La Verdad after winning the 2015 Vagrancy Stakes
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La Verdad wins the 2016 Interborough Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2016 Interborough Stakes.
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La Verdad rolls to victory in the Interborough Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Gallant Bloom.
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La Verdad takes the Gallant Bloom Handicap over Wavell Avenue.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga July 29.
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La Verdad wins the Honorable Miss Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the Dancin' Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Vagrancy Handicap.
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La Verdad takes the Vagrancy at Belmont Park.
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La Verdad and jockey Jose Ortiz are victorious in the Grade II Distaff Handicap at Aqueduct.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2015 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Iroquois Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Dancin Renee Stakes.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad wins the 2014 Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad won her third race in a row in the Critical Eye.
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La Verdad is owned by Lady Sheila Stable.
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La Verdad cruises to victory in the Distaff Handicap.
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La Verdad leads the way in the Iroquois.
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New York-based jockey Jose Ortiz secured the 1,000th victory of his career when he guided Moonlight Song to a three-quarter-length victory in the $100,000 John Morrissey Stakes July 28 at Saratoga Race Course.
The partnership of Lady Sheila Stable and trainer Linda Rice last year found great success with a mare and a filly, but on April 9 the focus will be on the 3-year-old colt Matt King Coal in the Wood Memorial Stakes (gr. I).
Effinex, a grade I winner and $2.2 million earner, was named New York's 2015 Horse of the Year at the New York Thoroughbred Breeders annual banquet April 4 at the Saratoga National Golf Club in Saratoga Springs.
It's too soon to know if Jose Ortiz will have a Derby ride this year, but he did pilot the promising Matt King Coal to an allowance win March 6. The son of Cool Coal Man is under consideration for the Wood Memorial (gr. I).
Hot City Girl enters the seven-furlong Barbara Fritchie off a second-place finish in the Dec. 26 La Brea (gr. I) at Santa Anita Park, which followed three consecutive victories by a combined 14 lengths.
Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad, the champion female sprinter of 2015, has been retired from racing and will be bred later this year to top sire Medaglia d'Oro.
The connections of Beholder, La Verdad, and Glen Hill Farm also accepted honors with quote-worthy responses Jan. 16 at the 45th annual Eclipse Awards at Gulfstream Park.
Lady Sheila Stable's star La Verdad dominated the female sprint division all year in New York. Her year's work was good enough for her to be named champion female sprinter.
Lady Sheila Stable's multiple graded stakes winner La Verdad turned the $100,000 Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack into a cakewalk Jan. 9, and will have another start before being bred to Medaglia d'Oro.
On the same day she was named a 2015 Eclipse Award finalist in the Filly and Mare Sprint Division, Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad was entered in the Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack for her first start of 2016.
Green Gratto, the longest shot on the board, won the $250,000 Fall Highweight Handicap (gr. III) Nov. 26 at Aqueduct. The New Jersey-bred son of Here's Zealous covered the six furlongs in 1:09.95.
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Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad, a winner of 15 of 23 starts for earnings of more than $1.5 million, could make her final start in the $250,000 Fall Highweight Handicap (gr. III) at Aqueduct Racetrack Nov. 26.
Sheila Rosenblum withdrew Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I) runner-up La Verdad from the Nov. 1 Fasig-Tipton November sale and will breed her in 2016.
Wavell Avenue, with a strong late kick, rolled past front runner La Verdad to take the $1 million TwinSpires Filly and Mare Sprint (gr. I) at seven furlongs in 1:22.39.
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Resurgent champion jockey Frankie Dettori will be aboard Judy the Beauty when the reigning champion female sprinter bids for a repeat win in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I) Oct. 31 at Keeneland.
Trainer Linda Rice Oct. 25 said Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad, who won the Iroquois Stakes for New York-breds at Belmont Park the previous day, will be entered in the Oct. 31 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (gr. I).
The 1 1/8-mile Empire Classic was the feature race on a Belmont card that included eight stakes worth a total of $1.75 million.
Former claimer Royal Posse will try for his second straight stakes win against other New York-breds and third victory overall when he faces an expected eight rivals in the $300,000 Empire Classic Handicap.
A cadre of candidates for the Breeders' Cup World Championships worked at Belmont Park Oct. 17, led by Tonalist, who went six furlongs in 1:14 in advance of the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I).
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin's Breeders' Cup hopefuls, led by grade I winner Frosted, continued their preparations in New York Oct. 15-16.
La Verdad stretched her unbeaten streak on the year to five with a wire-to-wire score in the Sept. 26 Gallant Bloom Handicap (gr. III) at Belmont Park.
Dame Dorothy, whose seven wins in 10 starts includes the Humana Distaff Stakes (gr. I), seeks a return to the winner's circle in the $300,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap (gr. II) after finishing sixth in the Ballerina (gr. I).
The 5-year-old New York-bred daughter of Yes It's True will put her four-race win streak on the line Aug. 29 in the $500,000 Ballerina Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course.
New York-bred filly is 4-for-4 this year.
La Verdad took the lead and never looked back July 29 in the $200,000 Honorable Miss Handicap (gr. II) at Saratoga Race Course, cruising gate to wire under jockey Jose Ortiz to preserve her perfect record this season.
Champion female sprinter Judy the Beauty headlines the $200,000 Honorable Miss Handicap (gr. II) for fillies and mares going six furlongs July 29 at Saratoga Race Course.
Overwhelming favorite La Verdad led at every point of call and won the $100,000 Dancin Renee Stakes for New York-bred fillies and mares by 7 1/4 lengths June 28 at Belmont Park, pushing her earnings past the $1 million mark.
Humana Distaff (gr. I) winner Dame Dorothy is scheduled to make her first start since that May 2 victory when she faces an expected seven other older fillies and mares in the $150,000 Bed o' Roses Handicap (gr. III).
Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad put away an early challenge from Frivolity before holding off a late bid from Room for Me to take the $150,000 Vagrancy Handicap (gr. III) May 16 at Belmont Park.
Speedy La Verdad will try to pick up her second graded stakes win this season May 16 in the $150,000 Vagrancy Handicap (gr. III) at Belmont Park.
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Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad returned to the races and to her winning ways April 18, galloping by 5 1/4 lengths over three rivals in the $200,000 Distaff Handicap (gr. II) at Aqueduct.
The $200,000 Distaff Handicap (gr. II) Saturday, April 18 at Aqueduct Racetrack has attracted just four fillies and mares, led by Mamdooha and La Verdad.
Carrying top weight of 133 pounds, favored Salutos Amigos rallied from off the pace to take the Fall Highweight Handicap by 1 3/4 lengths over longshot Mewannarose on the Thanksgiving Day card at Aqueduct Race Track.
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Lady Sheila Stable's La Verdad found her way back to the Belmont Park winner's circle Oct. 18, landing the $150,000 Iroquois on Empire Showcase Day for her fifth stakes score of the year.
Four times a runner-up in stakes races this season, including a second-place finish to Palace in the Forego (gr. I), Big Business will try to secure the first stakes win of his career in the Hudson Handicap Oct. 18.
Needing the entire length of Belmont Park's sandy stretch, heavily favored Artemis Agrotera got up to nail La Verdad on the wire to take the Gallant Bloom Handicap (gr. II) by a head.
Chester and Mary Broman's Ballerina Stakes (gr. I) winner Artemis Agrotera will face five rivals as she looks to continue her winning ways in the $300,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap (gr. II) Sept. 20 at Belmont Park.
Better Lucky, a dual grade I winner on turf who won her first start on dirt in more than two years last month at Saratoga Race Course, returns to the upstate New York oval for the $500,000 Ballerina Stakes (gr. I) Aug. 23.
R Free Roll pulled a mild upset July 28 at Saratoga Race Course when shooting straight to the lead and holding firmly in the stretch to take the $200,000 HRTV Honorable Miss Handicap (gr. II) for filly and mare sprinters.
Speedsters La Verdad, Red Velvet, R Free Roll, and Merry Meadow will ensure a prompt pace in the Honorable Miss at six furlongs at Saratoga July 28.
The classy sprinter La Verdad handled an increase in distance to take the Critical Eye Stakes, and 3-year-old filly Isabelle went wire-to-wire in the Bouwerie Stakes May 31 at Belmont Park on New York Showcase Day.
La Verdad seeks her first win beyond six furlongs as she heads a group of nine New York-bred fillies and mares in the $200,000 Critical Eye at one mile. Earlier on the card, Flipcup heads $125,000 Bouwerie.
Sheila Rosenblum, owner of Lady Sheila Stable, May 27 announced a new endeavor in the horse racing industry as manager of a syndicate that will rely significantly on female investors.
Front-running La Verdad left her rivals behind leaving the turn en route to her initial graded stakes win, a 3 3/4-length romp in the $200,000 Distaff Handicap (gr. II) at Aqueduct Racetrack April 19.
Todd Pletcher-trained filly makes first start in nearly nine months in six-furlong test at Aqueduct Racetrack April 19.
My Wandy's Girl missed taking last year's edition of the Barbara Fritchie (gr. II) by three-quarters of a length at Laurel Park, but this season she would not be denied.
| Trainer | Linda Rice |
|---|---|
| Jockey | Jose L. Ortiz |
| Owner | Lady Sheila Stable |
| Breeder | Eklektikos Stable LLC |
| La Verdad View Five-Cross Pedigree | Yes It's True | Is It True |
| Clever Monique | ||
| Noble Fire | Hook and Ladder | |
| Noble Affair |
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| Tepin |
| Beholder |
| Nyquist |
| Songbird |
| Arrogate |
| Exaggerator |
| Frosted |
| Steip Amach (IRE) |
| Rainha Da Bateria |
| Dacita (CHI) |
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