In potentially her final career start, Klaravich Stables' Technical Analysis opened up a comfortable lead right out of the gate and then held off stablemates Beaute Cachee and Fluffy Socks to lead a Chad Brown-trained trifecta in the Oct. 27 Athenia Stakes at the Belmont at the Big A meet. The $150,000 listed stakes race came up more like a grade 2 for some of the top fillies and mares in the region not headed to the Breeders' Cup.
Technical Analysis, a multiple graded stakes winner and twice grade 1-placed, established a 1 1/2-length into the first turn and held an unchallenged advantage through a half-mile in :49.74 and three-quarters in 1:14.26. Beaute Cachee and Manny Franco tried to make a race of it coming up the rail in the stretch but were deftly squeezed out of running room by Jose Ortiz aboard the winner, who completed the nine furlongs in 1:49.20.
On to the November Sale
Technical Analysis is headed to the Keeneland Breeding Stock November Sale.
Brown: "It's nice to see her go out a winner. She's a very dependable horse, the type that any trainer really wants in the barn."
Living Magic Steps Up in Chelsey Flower
One race earlier, Maryland shipper Living Magic edged clear in the final 70 yards of the Chelsey Flower Stakes to win the $135,000 listed event for juvenile fillies by 1 1/4 lengths over favored Ozara.
