Now, this is a lot of of pedigree for a filly in for $40,000. Satyana, who was scratched from a $40,000 maiden claimer at Keeneland Wednesday, is by Street Cry out of Lovely Regina, by Deputy Minister. She's a half sister to Thiskyhasnolimit, with her 2nd dam Cara Rafaela, who basically spent her racing career on the board in grade Is, and then went on to overshadow her own racing career by producing Bernardini.
In the main, Satyana appears not to be able to run at all, although we are talking about Beyers ranging from 38-65 at Churchill and Gulfstream, not Beyers of 0 at Finger Lakes. She is just 3, and had done enough to be 3-1 on the morning line for Wednesday's race, where bettors could care less about her pedigree. But I said she can't run at all because she's beaten just 10 horses in her career, while losing to 27. The only time she ever showed speed was in a slow-paced, 9f turf maiden at Gulfstream.
The interesting question, of course, is if she was scratched for a standard reason, or because the cforay into a claiming race was reconsidered. I have to say that I am forever overestimating the value of broodmare prospects, and it wouldn't be atypical for a filly I've touted as a good one to be entered again shortly, for a lower price. And that would less us know that the scratch was not in response to any incongruence between the filly's pedigree and the price.
Satyana is a Padua filly, if you're curious. Ian Wilkes has been her trainer of record for all four of her races so far, but Mike Maker is now listed as trainer. Maker seems like a guy who might be more comfortable running a fancy-pedigreed filly for a claimer than Wilkes, but I could certainly be wrong about that, as I could be for just about everything I write here.
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