The Princess Looney Grade I

Hello everyone and welcome to Florida, where the sun is shining and there isn’t a cloud in the sky.  It isn’t the Daytona 500 everyone is waiting to watch though, in fact, it isn’t the Orange Bowl, or anything to do with football, baseball, or soccer.  It has to do with racing, and not auto racing, but horse racing. We have the Grade I The Princess Looney running today.  These fillies and mares all three years old or older will be going six furlongs on the fast dirt, all fighting for the purse of a monster 500,000.  So without futher ado, let’s meet our seven ladies    

1.  Bogoesmrp, (Cat Thief X Mr. Prospector X Danzig) will be out of gate 1 today coming in at odds of 5/1.  Owner boble14 hopes that this six year old lady can earn her first ever career graded win in her first ever career graded attempt.  There is nothing like shooting for the stars, taking a chance and being aggressive and that is exactly what boble14 has done here.  He may just be rewarded for that move though as this girl has been running her best races as of late.  In three races this year, she has raced in two listed stakes and an allowance where she has posted two wins and a second two races back.  Here speed figures have been some of the best of her career and she will be looking to top her career best speed figure of 107 tied last time out.  

2.  I’m A Zensation, (Zensational X Cat Thief X Seeking The Gold) will come out of gate two at odds of 7/1.  Owner trotter2 will throw this young girl, at age of 4, into the mix though she has proven she can beat the best.  She has failed to hit the board just four times in fifteen career races, and she will be looking for not only her second win in a row today, but also her second graded win as well.  She has turned it on the last four races where she has run speeds well over 100.  Three races back she ran fifth in her first ever career graded try.  It was back to the allowance ranks two races back and she jumped at the opportunity and seized a win running a 102 speed figure and taking the field by 1 ½ lengths.  Her last race featured her best performance as she won a Grade II in star fashion coming back from 7^th place to take the field with a speed figure of 106.

3.  Up The Pop Charts, (Mineshaft X Fappiano X Deputy Minister) is a 7/1 shot in today’s race.  Owner raynham sends this girl out to her first Grade I attempt after running two carrer best races back to back.  After finally breaking out of her shell in her 5^th career start, it has been nothing but terrific runs for this girl.  Her last three races have all be in the stakes ranks where she finished third three races back in a listed stakes race and ran a speed figure of 101.  Her following race was a breakout race where she ran a career best speed figure of 110 to take a listed stakes field of eight by 1 ¼ lengths for her first career stakes win.  Last time out this girl proved she belonged in the graded ranks as she ran second in a Grade II, running a speed figure of 104.

4.  No Ordinary Tap (Tapit X Elusive Quality X Storm Cat) is the second favorite in today’s race coming into the race with odds of 4/1.  This four year old mare will attempt the graded ranks again after failing three races back in her first graded attempt.  Her career best speed figure came four races back as she finished second in a listed stakes field of 11 running a 110.  She then failed in her first graded attempt placing 9^th out of 13 horses and running a speed figure of 101.  Two races back saw the same No Ordinary Tap we have seen before as she ran another speed figure of 110 and placed second in a NW4Y allowance.  Her race last time out showed a pretty consistent speed figure of 107 as she placed 4^th in a near full field of 13 in a listed stakes event.    

5.  Flower Haack, (Fasliyve X Seattle Slew X Blushing Groom) is the co-second favorite in today’s race also with odds of 4/1.  This six year old mare out of the xhaack stable is no stranger to the graded ranks as she has attempted the coveted graded races ten times.  In those races she has one each of a first, second, and third.  Her lone graded win came way back in October of 2010 when she took the Grade III Dolly Prummond Stakes by 1 ¾ lengths and ran a career high speed figure of 112.  She has turned the heat back up in her last couple of races winning two allowance races in a row before running 5^th in a Grade II.  Her two wins posed speed figures of 103 and 107 before she fell to 102 last time out.  She will be looking to get back on the winning track today.

6.  Despicable (Elusive Quality X A.P. Indy X Storm Cat) is a four year old mare out of the cylla1111 stables.  She will be the co-favorite at 3/1 and is currently recovering from the off race she had last time out.  In 15 career lifetime races, this girl has failed to hit the board just two times, while winning 8 of 15 races.  She has four graded victories in her career, but has not tried the Grade I ranks yet.  Three races back she ran a 107 speed figure while finishing second in a grade three.  She then popped the cork off the bottle and busted out a career high 115 speed figure two races back winning a Grade II by 1 ¾ lengths.  Her last race is one where she just did not live up to the hype of the previous race and she faltered in a Grade II race finishing 7^th and running a 99 speed figure.  Her lowest since March of 2011.

7.  Song of Speight (Speightstown X Unbridled’s Song X Affirmed) is the other co-favorite sitting at odds of 3/1 as well.  This five year old mare out of the mtkgrs stable will be looking to pick up her second graded win of the year and of her life after running a lifetime best speed figure last time out.  She made the jump back into the graded ranks four races back where she finished first in a Grade III while running a 109 speed figure.  It was then two races, a Grade II and a Grade I, where she finished 3^rd and 5^th respectively and ran lower speed figures of 104 and 106.  She then dropped back into the listed stakes ranks last time out and tied a career high speed figure of 110 while taking the field by 1 1/4^th lengths.