From horseracingnation.com: Sweet Loretta improved to 3-for-3 in her career when she finished in a dead heat with Pretty City Dancer in the Spinaway. Trainer Todd Pletcher said the 2-year-old, who is also a Tapit filly, tired slightly in running seven furlongs for the first time but handled the step up in class coming out of a victory in the Grade 3 Schuylerville on July 22.
"She's handled each step up in class and stretch out in distance," Pletcher said. "She was getting a little bit tired at the end of the race but that was to be expected. She was stalking some fairly solid fractions. We've always been optimistic that she'll continue to stretch out."
Pletcher, who has won multiple graded stakes each year since 1998, said it was the first time he had a horse dead heat for first in a Grade 1.
"It's hard to tell sometimes from the stands. I wasn't sure if she got her head down or not," Pletcher said. "I thought we had a good head bob. I could tell it was taking awhile, so I could tell it would possibly be a dead heat. It's a lot to process in a short period of time."
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