Unbridled Spirit Gets Morning Line Nod

Unbridled Spirit Gets Morning Line Nod

Tasmania – The $65,000 Nexis Virgin tops the card here in Tasmania this weekend and a field of six sophomore fillies will contest the six furlong main track feature.  Nexis Virgin is a stakes winning daughter of Mt Livermore and garnered three wins from 32 starts.  She is the dam of two foals to race, one winner.

With the top speed figure of the group, Unbridled’s Spirit (9/5) was given the slight nod by the odds maker.  A daughter of Unbridled Song,

she is trained by Burn1down and has three wins from seven starts, earning more than $100,000 in her short career.  Ranked #75, she broke her maiden over a sloppy track in Kentucky and then was shipped to this very track to run in The Apple Laughing her next out.  She won that, again on a sloppy track and then showed she could handle a fast track when she won out in Arizona four starts back.  This well traveled filly is back at the scene of her first stakes victory and looks to be well placed.

Breaking from the inside is Deadwood Returns (5/2) a lovely moving filly by Johannesburg.  She only sports one win but has plenty of speed.  Looking at her form, the distance may be a question, but trainer Deadwood insists she has plenty of air, claiming to have her on a regimen of long gallops for fitness.

Storm System (3/1) is by Housebuster and is another that may have a problem with the distance.  She has a ton of gas but has been unable to carry it beyond 5 1/2 furlongs.  She has been in the money in four of her six starts and has won two of them for trainer Firewalker.  She followed her maiden win by an easy victory in an allowance race before earning a couple of 4ths, a third, and a second in stakes company.

Kirby55 is the trainer of Kirby’s Quest, a 3 YO daughter of Coronado‘s Quest.  She has two wins from 12 starts although she has earned a check in seven of her races.  She comes in to this race off a winning effort but has plenty of stakes experience, her best finish being a third in The Your Pots at 5 1/2 furlongs.  She has also run in a claiming race for $10,000 but she has proved to be better than that.

Trying dirt for the first time is Hawk4’s Crimson Reality (7/1).  The 3YO filly by Wolfhound has two wins from three starts.  She won easily at first asking and was immediately pointed toward the mammoth Jess where she grabbed a quarter in the opening furlong and beat only one horse.  Once she was healthy she was entered in an allowance race where she went wire to wire and was opening at the wire.  If this race was on the grass she would have been the even money favorite, but as it is – it’s anyone’s guess.

Game Is On (7/1) belongs to local resident Tasman and has two wins from nine starts.  By Robellino, she two won both a MSW and then an allowance before she was asked for more.  Unfortunately she has not managed the class jump very well, only beating a total of six horses in her last five starts.  Maybe she will wakeup on Saturday and be a new horse – stranger things have happened!