Line lands American prize

Luas Line completed a hat-trick of wins with success in the Grade One Garden City Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Belmont Park.

Luas Line completed a hat-trick of wins with success in the Grade One Garden City Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Belmont Park.

David Wachman’s three-year-old stepped up on her recent Listed wins at Cork and Gowran to beat Asi Siempre by one and a half lengths.

John Velazquez settled the Irish raider in second place as My Typhoon set the early pace and he began his move as the field turned into the straight.

Luas Line soon hit top gear but she had to run through a flock of errant geese in the process before powering away for a convincing success.

“We must have run over two or three geese,” Velazquez told www.bloodhorse.com. “One of their feathers was in my foot. It was a delayed reaction. After she went through them, then she got scared.”

Wachman is now considering a crack at either next month’s Grade One Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup over nine furlongs at Keeneland or the Breeders’ Cup at Belmont.

“She definitely has improved,” said Wachman. “I got a little fright today. I didn’t know it was the geese that she hit. She pricked her ears and losther action a little bit.

“It’s great to come here and win a race. She likes the fast ground and she travels well.

“We’ll see about the Breeders’ Cup (One Million Emirates Airlines Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf). I’ll have to talk to the owners and see what they want to do.”

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