Michael Lund Petersen’s Adare Manor, who so often shows her best on the front end, took her California tactics on the road with a 5 1/2-length score in Oaklawn’s $1.25-million GI Apple Blossom S. Saturday while conceding between one and six pounds to her rivals.

A $375,000 Donato Lanni purchase at the 2021 OBS June sale after working a furlong in :10 1/5, Adare Manor won the GIII Las Virgenes S. at three by 13 lengths, had a five-win streak going at four that included the GI Clement L. Hirsch S. and three other graded races, and kickstarted her 5-year-old campaign with a 102 Beyer as the runner-up in the GI Beholder Mile S. at Santa Anita Mar. 9. Seven of her eight career wins have been on the front end, with the lone exception being a stalking trip in last summer’s Clement L. Hirsch…

Easy Win for California Shipper Adare Manor in Apple Blossom