Miss Unnameable Owners Hope She’ll Like New Turf

The owners of Tatt Stable’s Miss Unnameable hopes that the fast new turf course at Santa Anita suits her front-running style Sunday in the $400,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at the Oak Tree meeting. The 5-year-old mare from New York is entered in the Grade I test for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on the grass.

Miss Unnameable, trained by Wayne Widmer, will be stabled with Richard Mandella at Santa Anita. The Kentucky-bred daughter of Great Neck has won nine of 54 starts and earned $464,454. She won the Grade II New York Handicap and Grade III Noble Damsel Stakes on the Belmont turf this summer.

Miss Unnameable is owned by John Toscano and his sons, John III and Robert, all of Elmont, N.Y., and John Antonelli of Brooklyn, thus the stable name Tatt for the first letters of their last names.

“We bought her for $33,000 two years ago at a sale at Belmont,” said Toscano. “We bought her from Peter Schiff’s Fox Ridge Farm. She already was named. They must have been submitting names when she was a yearling, got frustrated and considered her ‘unnameable.’ She had just broken her maiden on the turf at Belmont with blinkers on and looked like she had potential so we took a shot.

“We had Love That Mac, who raced here in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint in 1986,” said John III. “She took over where he left off. He was retired to stud and is being moved from Texas to Winning Edge in New York this year. We’re planning to stay in California this winter with Miss Unnameable and a few other horses.”

A field of 11 or 12 is likely for the Yellow Ribbon, which offers a first prize of $240,000 and has important Eclipse Award ramifications.