Sadie Lady will gun it in Correction

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Last Saturday, in the Grade 3 Tom Fool Handicap at Aqueduct, there appeared to be an abundance of pace, yet Chateau proved to have the most early speed and won in gate-to-wire fashion for trainer Rob Atras.

This Saturday, in the $100,000 Correction Stakes at Aqueduct, there appears to be an abundance of early speed. Perhaps Sadie Lady can prove to be the fastest early and go gate to wire for Atras.

The Correction, at six furlongs, drew an evenly matched field of seven fillies and mares, all seeking their first stakes victory.

Sadie Lady, a New York-bred daughter of Freud, is coming off a front-running victory in an open-company, second-level allowance here on Dec. 18. Atras said he was looking to run her back in the Broadway Stakes on Feb. 13, but that race failed to fill.

“She’s been training really good, I just hope we haven’t waited too long to run her. She’s been ready to run for a month,” said Atras, who counts two stakes wins among his 14 victories at the meet.

Sadie Lady will break from post 2 under Manny Franco.

Franco replaces Kendrick Carmouche, who has taken the call on Amuse, a 6-year-old mare who has shipped in from Southern California. Trainer Richard Mandella said early this week the Correction is a last-chance effort to get Amuse a stakes victory before she is bred to War Front this spring.

Amuse, a daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, would benefit if there is a pace battle up front. She is coming out of a fifthplace finish in the Grade 2 Santa Monica on Feb. 13.

“The last race didn’t have quite the pace that we had before and I think that helps her when there’s a good pace,” Mandella said.

The 8-year-old mare Jump for Joy is in the best form of her career. Trained by Mertkan Kantarmaci, Jump for Joy is coming out of a front-running, first-level allowance victory on Jan. 16.

Jump for Joy has shown the ability to sit just of the pace and be successful, though this will be her first time in a stakes race.

“It’s going to help us if a couple of horses compete in the front,” Kantarmaci said.

Prairie Fire is coming off a last-place finish in the La Verdad Stakes on Jan. 3. That was her first start without Lasix and trainer Linda Rice noted she’s “on the fence” about running Prairie Fire in the Correction and may look for a different spot. Lasix is not permitted to be used in stakes races.

“I’m not sure she’s as good without Lasix,” Rice said.

Kansas Kis is shortening up to six furlongs after twice getting beat going a mile. She came off a five-month layoff last November to win an opencompany allowance going 6 1/2 furlongs here.

Owner/trainer Charlton Baker said he supplemented Awesome Debate, a frontrunning winner of two straight allowance races, to the Correction in lieu of somewhere else to run.

Call On Mischief, fifth in the Interborough after running second to Sadie Lady in December, completes the field.

The Correction goes as race 9 on a 10-race card that begins at 12:50 p.m.