{"id":73416,"date":"2025-08-17T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73416\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:13:10","slug":"brilliant-perfect-thorpedo-anna-logs-final-breeze-for-saratogas-personal-ensign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73416\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Brilliant, Perfect’: Thorpedo Anna Logs Final Breeze For Saratoga’s Personal Ensign"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Brilliant, Perfect’: Thorpedo Anna Logs Final Breeze For Saratoga’s Personal Ensign<\/a> originally appeared on Paulick Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna turned in her final work in preparation for next Saturday\u2019s Grade 1, $500,000 Personal Ensign, covering a half-mile in 48.28 seconds on Saturday over Saratoga Race Course\u2019s Oklahoma training track with Luis Rivera Jr. in the irons.<\/p>\n

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The Personal Ensign offers a ‘Win and You’re In’ berth to the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Distaff in November at Del Mar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was brilliant, perfect,\u201d trainer Ken McPeek said. \u201cI told him to go 48 and change and she looked happy as ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thorpedo Anna, whose ownership group now includes Hill \u2018n\u2019 Dale Farm in addition to Mark Edwards, breeder Judy Hicks, and Magdalena Racing, enters the Personal Ensign from a win in Churchill Downs\u2019 Grade 2 Fleur de Lis on June 28.<\/p>\n

The daughter of Fast Anna returns to the scene of Grade 1 wins in the DK Horse Acorn and Coaching Club American Oaks last year ahead of a head second to Fierceness in the Grade 1 DraftKings Travers. She completed the year with Grade 1 wins in the Cotillion at Parx Racing and the Breeders\u2019 Cup Distaff at Del Mar, concluding a campaign that was awarded Horse of the Year and Champion 3-Year-Old Filly honors.<\/p>\n

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Thorpedo Anna is out of the unraced Uncle Mo mare Sataves, whose sophomore colt McAfee is expected to start in the Grade 1, $1.25 million DraftKings Travers next Saturday.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Paulick Report<\/a> on Aug 16, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Brilliant, Perfect’: Thorpedo Anna Logs Final Breeze For Saratoga’s Personal Ensign originally appeared on Paulick Report. Reigning Horse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[37640,37642,37641,30501,29558,3004,8091,101,37639,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-73416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-breeders-cup-distaff","tag-luis-rivera-jr","tag-mark-edwards","tag-parx-racing","tag-personal-ensign","tag-racing","tag-saratoga-race-course","tag-sports","tag-thorpedo-anna","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}