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Elevated Vision won an allowance at Laurel Park to go two-for-two in her career. Photo by Jim McCue, Maryland Jockey Club.
by Frank Vespe
Elevated Vision is bred to be a good horse, and Sunday at Laurel Park, she took another step in the direction of becoming one.
The three-year-old Great Notion filly, trained by Phil Schoenthal for D Hatman Thoroughbreds and his own Kingdom Bloodstock, scored a determined neck victory in the day’s second race, an allowance/optional claiming event, and now owns two wins from two starts.
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“We ran against who showed up, and we came out on top, and I’m happy for it,” Schoenthal said after his charge’s win in a compact, four-horse field. Elevated Vision went off the 7-5 second choice, with New York shipper Danyelli the 7-10 favorite. Danyelli finished second.
Elevated Vision is out of the Polish Numbers mare Sparkling Number and was bred in Maryland by Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds. She is a half-sister to the Pennsylvania-bred Illuminant, a Grade 1 winner on the turf, as well as Jeezum Jim, a horse known for preferring a route of ground.
“We think her future is going to be two turns, and we think her future might be on the grass,” Schoenthal said.
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Maybe, but there’s plenty to like about her present.
Today, under rider Carlos Quinones — whom Schoenthal called “the most under-appreciated rider in Maryland” — Elevated Vision broke alertly to press the pace of Charles Town shipper Yes I Dance, the longest shot on the board at 10-1. Those two whipped through an opening quarter-mile in 22.89 seconds, with just a half-length separating them.
Elevated Vision moved to even terms entering the lane, took the lead leaving the three-sixteenths, and cleared late before having to fend off the belated rally of the favorite, Danyelli.
Running time for the 5 1/2 furlongs over a fast main track was 1:04.88. Elevated Vision paid $4.80 to win and topped a one-dollar exacta worth $5.40.
Elevated Vision is now two-for-two in her brief career, with purse earnings of $55,575. Looking forward — with a speedy sprinter who figures to stretch out, and to like the turf — Schoenthal figures he has plenty of options.
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One of them, he said, might involve a trip to Keeneland.
“We do have stalls at Keeneland for the spring meet. I’m going down there with some of the better horses in the barn, and I think she might be in that contingent,” he explained. “If she looks like she fits down there, they’ve got the Beaumont going seven-eighths on the dirt or, you know, they’ve got a race going long on the grass (the Grade 2 Appalachian at one mile for sophomore fillies). You might just take a shot at that.”
With her breeding, graded black type could have major value — perhaps even moreso if it comes from a place like Keeneland.
Though that remains in the future — and depends in large measure how she comes out of today’s race and how this race looks in retrospect — Schoenthal is more than happy with where his charge is, seeing it as something of a fulfillment of what they’d seen around the barn from the get-go.
“We thought she was a good horse all along, just breezing with everything in the barn and doing it so easily,” he said. “She gave us the kind of chills that gave you a reason to get out of the bed in the morning and come to the barn.
“These are the ones that keep you dreaming.”
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