Phipps Stable’s 4-year-old Into Mischief filly Self Confident followed up her maiden win last time out with a determined allowance victory on Friday at Laurel.
Breaking from the rail in a mile and a sixteenth turf race with jockey Forest Boyce aboard, she broke from the rail and saved ground around the first turn. She stalked the pace from her rail position down the backstretch and far turn before moving to the three path entering the stretch. She made a bid for the lead inside the eighth pole and prevailed to win by a neck.
After sitting out her sophomore campaign, she has progressed nicely this year, taking fourth in two starts at Gulfstream in January and February, followed by a third-place finish at Tampa in April. Her maiden win came in May at Monmouth, getting up at the wire to win by a head.
Self Confident is a half-sister of Phipps Stable’s stakes-placed Speightstown horse Dreams of Tomorrow and her dam Sabbatical, by Medaglia d’Oro is a half-sister to grade 1 winner Imagining, by Giant’s Causeway. A ninth-generation Phipps homebred, Self Confident is from the Get Lucky branch of La Troienne mare Baby League.
Photo: Jockey Forest Boyce aboard Self Confident after her allowance win at Laurel.
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