Madame Secretary Race Recap

Madame Secretary ran a much improved second this afternoon at Santa Anita Park. Your daughter of Constitution stumbled at the start and as you will hear from jockey Juan Hernandez in the video above, he felt she broke so fast the ground came out from under her. She recovered quickly and was able to settle in second behind the eventual winner and post-time favorite, Just as Fancy. She stayed on in the stretch while green throughout, drifting in and out a bit but this was definitely an encouraging effort.

Given her debut and not getting much out of it from either a fitness or education standpoint, we have to treat this effort as her debut. It was a positive sign that she handled both the two-turn distance and the dirt.

We’ll check in with the Mandella barn in the morning to see how she exited the race and follow up with an update.