Claim Watch: It Wasn't Me

This three-year-old filly is an intriguing broodmare prospect

The third race at Fair Grounds on Thursday is a $30,000 maiden claiming event for three-year-old and up fillies and mares going a mile on the turf. There’s a three-year-old filly in there that caught my attention, a daughter of Blame named It Wasn’t Me.

It Wasn’t Me sold for $145,000 as a yearling at Keeneland September in 2021. Beginning her career with Brad Cox, she was off slow in her debut going a mile on the turf at Kentucky Downs in September of her two-year-old season, and didn’t make much of an impact. She was off until July, when she finished second in an off-the-turf maiden special weight at Horseshoe Indianapolis going a mile and a sixteenth.

She dropped in for a $40,000 tag going a mile at Saratoga and again finished second after the race was taken off the turf. She was claimed out of that event by Gregory DiPrima, and returned at the same level going a mile and a sixteenth at Aqueduct. This time, the race remained on the grass, and she made a mild bid to finish fifth, beaten only two lengths, after getting bumped at the start. Most recently, she chased the pace in a six and a half furlong event and tired to finish last. That race was almost certainly too short for her, and she gets back to the mile and the turf for new trainer Raymond Handal this week.