Tough Race to Call

Tough Race to Call

Spain – The Triple Joy Stakes will bring together six fillies and mares three and up.  These long distance runners will traverse a mile and 3/4 over the main track for a purse of $70,000.  The race is named for a 6YO Japanese mare of the same name by Toyo Lyphard who started 40 times, winning six, including one stakes.  She is the dam of one foal to race – a maiden.

Slwcityslw will send out the morning line favorite, a dark bay 5 YO mare by A P Indy, Sacrilege (9/5).  Ranked # 21 in the Dirt Long division, Sacrilege has won 16 of 41 races and is getting a bit of vacation from the high graded stakes level.  She won two Grade III’s back to back, followed that with a 5^th in the Grade II Big Dessert, and then, after being wiped out at the break, finished far back in the Grade III Canary.  She will try and regain some of her lost confidence here on Saturday.

Pardon Me (5/2) is ranked in the top 100 of the same Long Dirt division and the 5 YO daughter of Daylami has notched 11 victories from 39 starts.  She was the easy winner of the Twilight Pass three back and was a closing third last time out in the Banking The Dance Special.  She will be saddled by trainer Studkenny6.

Breaking from the outside will be the well-regarded Coominya Strides (3/1), a 4 YO by Rock Of Gibralter.  She won the Stupidly Build last time out by over two lengths easily defeating Weapons Of War, another entry in this race.   The rangy bay filly hopes to get her picture taken for the sixth time for her trainer Wedafoxhat.

A bright chestnut 3 YO filly named Working Hollandia (6/1) is one of three 3 YO’s in the race.  By Woodman and capably trained by Hollandia himself, this filly has seldom been out of the money and has won four of 16 starts.  She was well placed throughout her allowance career and is coming in off a win in the Ms. Kenbar at longer.  She is certainly fit and is going for her third win in a row.

Pandrews will send out a plain brown filly named Waki Bullet (7/1) is one of the least experienced in the group with only 11 races.  The 3 YO daughter of Red Bullet has four wins and is ranked # 21 in the Long Dirt division, but I was assured that she was going for ‘more of a work’ this time to try and set up for the DelPen Champion’s Day.  She was an easy winner at this distance in the Buck Sierra two back and was flying last time out at a much shorter distance.

The longshot (so to speak) is Spcstable’s Weapons of War (8/1).  The last of the 3 YOs, this dark bay or brown filly by Sendawar, has also only started 11 times and has three wins.  The former $40,000 claimer has rewarded her new trainer by steadily improving as the distances grew longer.  She was second last time out in the Stupidly Build and should improve off of that.  She is definitely one to watch.

This is a race full of closers but someone is going to have to show the way.  Pardon Me and Working Hollandia seem to be the most likely to find themselves on the lead.