Eros’s Girl runs on late to win Niagara Stakes

Eros’s Girl continued to show her affinity for Finger Lakes and landed her first stakes with a sustained winning rally in Monday’s $49,000 Niagara Stakes.

The 3-year-old daughter of Boys At Tosconova won the 6-furlong Niagara for owner-breeder-trainer M. Anthony Ferraro in her third stakes try and improved to 3-for-4 at Finger Lakes with her half-length victory over No Chalk. Sent off the 7-2 third choice in the field of six New York-bred sophomore fillies in the Independence Day feature in Farmington, Eros’s Girl won in 1:13.42 under Kevin Navarro.

Eros’s Girl added the Niagara to her 2 1/2-length victory in an open-company allowance at the same distance June 6 at Finger Lakes. She also broke her maiden in her debut by 5 lengths last September.

Navarro allowed Eros’s Girl to race toward the back of the field in her June 6 allowance score and again in the Niagara. No Chalk, Amore Fire and 4-5 favorite Sandy’s Garden scrimmaged for the early lead with the latter holding the advantage through the opening quarter in :22.52.

Amore Fire backed out of the battle for the lead first and No Chalk took over on the turn and was x in front past the half-mile split in :46.38. No Chalk and jockey Oscar Gomez cut the corner and opened up in to the lane, just as Eros’s Girl and Navarro started rolling.

No Chalk still led by 4 1/2 lengths at the eighth pole and past 5 furlongs in :59.46, but Eros’s Girl continued to cut into the lead. Eros’s Girl reduced her 2-length deficit at the sixteenth pole and grabbed the lead four strides from the finish to win going away. No Chalk held second, 6 3/4 lengths ahead of Curly Girl wth Sandy’s Garden fourth. Amore Fire and Betty Rubble completed the field.

Eros’s Girl is the first foal out of the stakes-placed New York-bred Freud mare Aspree.

Purchased by Ferraro for $7,500 at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall yearling sale, Aspree went 6-1-4 in 27 starts and earned $82,944 for Ferraro. She finished third as a 2-year-old in the Shesastonecoldfox Stakes at Finger Lakes and third there in the Niagara Stakes as a 3-year-old.

Eros’s Girl made her stakes debut in last fall’s Sheasastonecoldfox, finishing a non-threatening sixth. She wintered at Tampa Bay Downs and finished second in an allowance-optional, seventh in the Gasparilla Stakes and fourth in another allowance-optional. She returned from a four-month freshening to win her 6-furlong allowance June 6. Eros’s Girl boosted her earnings to $72,050 with her Niagara victory.

Aspree was bred to Big Brown last year and is also the dam of a New York-bred yearling colt by the late A.P. Indy stallion and multiple graded-stakes placed Stephanoatsee.

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