SORRENTO STAKES

ERJ Racing, Westside Racing Stable, Gary Barber, and Dave Kenney's Scuylerville Stakes (G3) winner Comical heads a field of six 2-year-old fillies entered in the $200,000 Sorrento Stakes (G2) Aug. 3 as Del Mar's juvenile scene begins to heat up.

The six-furlong Sorrento represents only the second lifetime start for the majority of the field, while the Doug O'Neill-trained Comical will be making her third start and has the experience of a cross-country trip to Saratoga Race Course and a graded victory to boot.

Stonestreet Farm......Comical, a daughter of Into Mischief , sat just off the pace in the six-furlong Schuylerville July 11 before gutting it out for a neck victory on a muddy track over Kiss the Girl. That effort followed a six-length win on debut May 26 at Santa Anita Park and Saturday she'll start off just more than three weeks of rest.

"She's doing really well and I think she's getting better all the time," said Leandro Mora, O'Neill's top assistant. "We're going to put the same equipment back on her that we had the first time, the shadow roll. We didn't put the shadow roll on at Saratoga because it was pouring and the shadow roll absorbs too much weight."

Comical will break from the rail with East Coast-based jockey Julien Leparoux aboard.

WinStar Farm's freshman stallions Commissioner , Constitution , and Daredevil  all will be represented in the Sorrento.

Ex-Border Racing, Robin Christensen, Steve Dorfman, Dan Hudock, and Susanna Wilson's Powerfulattraction, an Arkansas-bred filly by Commissioner, is the most expensive filly in the field having cost $225,000 from Wavertree Stables' consignment to the Ocala Breeders' Sales March Sale of 2-Year-Old in Training. The Peter Eurton trainee debuted June 29 at Los Alamitos Race Course and rallied to a 1 1/4-length victory going five furlongs.

Simon Callaghan will saddle Doug Branham and Marsha Naify's Amalfi Sunrise (Constitution) and Glencrest Farm and Qatar Racing's Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil). Amalfi Sunrise scored at 4 1/2 furlongs June 23 at Santa Anita, making a quick move from just off the pace to win by 6 1/4 lengths, while Shedaresthedevil is the winner of a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight at Churchill Downs, where she got up to win by 1 3/4 lengths June 13 for previous trainer Norm Casse.


Amalfi Sunrise was a $185,000 purchase at the OBS April Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training when consigned by Bobby Dodd.

Completing the field are Susan Derby and Gary Folgner's Princess Mo, third behind Amalfi Sunrise in her debut, and Aaron Pewtherer's Shanghai Keely, who scored by 6 3/4 lengths going five furlongs at Pleasonton July 4.


ENTRIES: SORRENTO S. (G2)

Del Mar, Saturday, August 03, 2019, Race 5

Grade II6fDirt $200,0002 yo Fillies4:00 PM 


1 Comical (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Julien R. Leparoux 123 Doug F. O'Neill


2 Powerfulattraction (AR)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joseph Talamo 118 Peter Eurton -


3 Amalfi Sunrise (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Norberto Arroyo, Jr. 120 Simon Callaghan -

4 Shedaresthedevil (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Drayden Van Dyke 123 Simon Callaghan -


5 Princess Mo (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Geovanni Franco 118 Ruben Gomez
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6 Shanghai Keely (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Irving Orozco 118 Ari Herbertson