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the Nishes’ flly perfectly. “She was laying outside, and she got a little breather around the turn,” said Hollendorfer. Unable to attend due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Nishes watched from their vacation home near Del Mar. Sneaking Out took the lead in the upper stretch, and at frst Bellafna, racing in third, didn’t seem to be catching her. Ten Bellafna began to close. “Bellafna was right in there breathing down our neck,” said Kevin. “Our neighbors now are familiar with the phrase ‘hurry, wire.’ We were maybe more than a little loud.” Los Alamitos has a particularly long stretch, and it seemed to the Nishes as if it would never end. Sneaking Out, however, had Bellafna Cal-bred Sneaking Out steals away to win Los Alamitos’ grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes for KMN racing measured, and she won by three-quarters of a length in 1:14.62, only .14 of Eclipse Award winner Finest City’s track record. Kevin noted that in the gallop-out, Sneaking Out never did let Bellafna past own, and she doesn’t like being told no.” her and only reluctantly heeded Garcia’s SNEAKING OUT Tat attitude has helped Sneaking instructions to pull up. ELUDES BELLAFINA Out develop into an excellent racehorse. Te Nishes have enjoyed watching Trained for most of her 11 starts and all Sneaking Out since she was foaled at ElIN GREAT LADY M. fve of her wins by Jerry Hollendorfer, she len Jackson’s Victory Rose Toroughbreds BY TRACY GANTZ previously had beaten Cal-breds in the near Vacaville. Tey had bought into her 2019 Evening Jewel Stakes and had run sire, Indian Evening, who stood at Vichat one is my attitude second in the 2019 Summertime Oaks tory Rose until his untimely death at age mare,” said Kim Nish about (G2) and Fleet Treat Stakes. Earlier this 8 in 2017. With the help of bloodstock year she won at Oaklawn Park. agents Alex Solis II and Jason Litt, they California-bred Sneaking “I want to be sure to recognize the job purchased her dam, the Kitten’s Joy mare Out, winner of the $201,000 Great Jerry has done,” said Kevin. “He has got- Maddie’s Odyssey in foal to DrosselmeyLady M. Stakes (G2) at Los Alam- ten her over some little things.” er for $14,500 at the 2012 Keeneland itos July 4. Hollendorfer had the 4-year-old bay fl- November sale. Nish and her husband, Kevin, know ly primed for the 61∕2-furlong Great Lady Maddie’s Odyssey has been a gem for the personalities of every one of their race- M. Sneaking Out needed to be at her best the Nishes. In addition to Sneaking Out, horses. Sneaking Out, whose Great Lady because the race drew Bellafna, whose the mare has produced multiple stakes M. gave the Fairfeld, Calif., couple their seven graded wins include the 2019 San- winners Grecian Fire (by Unusual Heat) frst grade 2 victory as owner/breeders, has ta Anita Oaks (G1) and 2018 Del Mar and Been Studying Her (by Fast Anna). a brazen personality. Debutante Stakes (G1) and Chandelier Maddie’s Odyssey has a 2-year-old full “One time when I told her she couldn’t Stakes (G1). sister to Sneaking Out named Starlight have any more carrots, I got a very, very When the gate opened, Sneaking Stroll, a yearling colt by Straight Fire, and fast nip to express her displeasure,” said Out tracked Artistic Diva’s early pace in a suckling flly by Tapit. She has been bred Kim. “She defnitely has a mind of her second, jockey Martin Garcia placing back to Constitution.
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