Downbytheseaside<\/a> out of that family, we thought that if anything she\u2019s a broodmare value.\u201d<\/p>\nInitially, it appeared that might be the extent of Blood Queen\u2019s potential value. She was difficult to get started last season as a 2-year-old, and she made breaks in her first two qualifying attempts in July at Harrah\u2019s Hoosier Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never thought she would race,\u201d said Miller, who trains the filly for his own Miller Racing Stable, Redracer LLC, and Melinda Hayes. \u201cShe was one of the worst horses I\u2019ve ever trained early on. Tough to break, tough to get gaited; she did everything wrong. She qualified terrible, but then we ironed a few things out, and she started to come around. She was a very late bloomer.\u201d<\/p>\n
After a third-place finish in her third qualifying try at Hoosier Park, Blood Queen headed to Ohio\u2019s Eldorado Scioto Downs for her debut, which she won by 4 lengths in 1:53.1. Sickness derailed her in her next two starts, both at Lexington\u2019s Red Mile, but she rebounded to capture a Buckeye Stallion Series division in 1:55.2 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. She finished her campaign with a fourth-place finish in a Kentucky Sire Stakes leg at Cumberland Run in mid-October.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe finished up real strong,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI do think there is a lot of talent if we can get everything ironed out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blood Queen has raced once this season at 3, winning by a neck over 4-year-old Caviart Maria in 1:53.3 at Miami Valley Raceway. Her next start will also be at MVR, Thursday (April 16) in a $25,000 elimination of the James K. Hackett Memorial for sophomore pacing fillies. She will leave from post 1 in the first of two elims, with Kayne Kauffman in the sulky. She is the 3-1 third choice on the morning line.<\/p>\n
The top four finishers from each elim and a fifth-place finisher drawn by lot will advance to the $75,000 final on April 23.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she\u2019s a sire stakes filly from the vibes she\u2019s giving me, but the Hackett will be our telltale sign the next week or two, if we make the final. We\u2019ll know a lot more about her this week. I think she\u2019s got wicked speed, I think she\u2019s got a giant set of lungs, and I think she\u2019s got talent. Now you need class to go with the rest of it. So, we\u2019re working on the class. It\u2019s coming. When I first qualified her, I didn\u2019t know what was going to happen, if she was going to behave. But she\u2019s had enough starts now that I know she\u2019s going to behave, and she likes her work.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time she goes on the track it\u2019s a little better than the day before. I love her now, but she was definitely a difficult child. Her floor is little lower than I\u2019d prefer it to be on a nice horse, but her ceiling is very high. She could be anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second Hackett Memorial elimination for the pacing fillies includes last year\u2019s Ohio Sire Stakes champion, Seaside Shuffle, from the stable of trainer Ron Burke.<\/p>\n
In addition to the two Hackett elims for the pacing fillies, there will be two Hackett elims for the 3-year-old male pacers and one each for the 3-year-old male and female trotters. The top eight finishers from each of the trot elims will advance to next week\u2019s finals. <\/p>\n
Racing begins at 4 p.m. (EDT) at Miami Valley Raceway. For Thursday\u2019s complete entries, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hightstown, NJ \u2013 For a while last year, trainer Ryan Miller thought female pacer Blood Queen might never…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-200326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Blood Queen captured a Buckeye Stallion Series division in 1:55.2 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds last year. Chris Tully photo.<\/p>\n