6/23-24 (BEL): Mother Goose (G1); Mike Lee, Bouwerie, Tweedside

[Calzone Lord]

It is kind of funny that Tweedside has a race named after her. I went back and looked at her record at Belmont.

1st start - Career debut. No lasix. Finished last beaten 20 lengths going 7f for Pletcher.

2nd start - Won the Sands Point -- race was rained off the turf. Beat 3 other rivals. Tommy Turner rode even money favorite Platinum Tiara.

3rd start - Won Coaching Club American Oaks by 7+ lengths at 10/1 odds. Chris McCarron fell off of the 4-to-5 favorite Starrer at the start. Everyone else couldn't get the 12 furlongs.

4th start - Tweedside makes her Belmont Park turf debut in the Flower Bowl. She did not finish the race at odds of 31/1. "Tired, eased in stretch" Laline, England's Legend, and Starine 1-2-3 in a strong edition.

5th start - Tweedside wins the Sheepshead Bay by a nose. Sweetest Thing and Golden Corona beaten a nose in 3-way photo finish for the win.

6th and final start at BEL - Tweedside 5th of 7 in the New York Handicap. She was 4/1. The highweight in the race was the Darrel Vienna trained Janet -- who was shipping in off of a 2nd place finish at Bay Meadows in the Yerba Buena.

Tweedside was 3-2-0-0 on the BEL dirt and 3-1-0-0 on the BEL turf.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

6th and final start at BEL - Tweedside 5th of 7 in the New York Handicap. She was 4/1. The highweight in the race was the Darrel Vienna trained Janet -- who was shipping in off of a 2nd place finish at Bay Meadows in the Yerba Buena.

Janet was a good racemare. She was highweight because she was a dual Grade 1 winner, knocking off Tranquility Lake in the Ramona and Yellow Ribbon. The loss at Bay Meadows on the surface may have been embarrassing, but the winner of that race was a first-time Euro import for Gary Tanaka and Bobby Frankel named Peu a Peu. In her only other start in the US, which came about a week before the New York Handicap, Peu a Peu nearly ran down the monster turf mare Astra in a Grade 1 at Hollywood.

Curiously, Janet was shipped to NY 3 times in her career, all to no avail. She caught bad weather trying the Sheepshead Bay, which was transfered to the main track (she was a modest 3rd). She got crushed in the Diana at Saratoga in between her Grade 1 wins in CA. She only made a couple of more starts after the New York. Earned a $1 million.