Some Questions To Be Answered In Indiana

Some Questions To Be Answered In Indiana

Indiana – It seems only fitting that the favorite for the Dancing Waters Stakes should be a filly named Oceanfront.  With clear weather in the forecast it was surprising that only four trainers dropped their entry cards for Saturday’s $80,000, one mile event.  The race for 3 YO fillies was named after an 8 YO stakes winning mare by Nureyev who won three of 22 races.  She is the dam of three foals to race – two of which are winners.

Oceanfront (4/5) is an own daughter of Malibu Moon and is trained by Simond2 and has been in the money in nine of her 13 starts which is almost more starts than the rest of the field combined.  The lovely red filly has four wins and is ranked in the top 100 in the dirt classic division.  She has won two of her last five starts and finished fourth last time out in the Alynapa Record where she led to the top of the stretch before giving way.  She will be going shorter on Saturday and should be dead fit so she should move forward off her last effort.

Colonial Affair will be represented by Sally Hemings (6/1).  A nice dark bay filly she has two wins from four starts and was second in her only stakes attempt.  With improving speed figures and a win last time out in a nine furlong allowance, trainer Queen figured she earned another try at the class jump.  I like this filly and think she will do just fine.

A pretty, although slightly crooked in her right front, bay daughter of Storm Cat is being pushed to earn back some of her purchase price.  Lucky’s Storm Cat (9/2) was a wire to wire maiden winner and then was very disappointing in her attempts to step up the ladder.  She managed to only beat two in two tries at the stakes level.  Mrlucky229 has found a short field and she will definitely pick up some purse money and some black type.

On the outside will be Running Scared (7/5) a well-built daughter of El Prado.  Crazyjoe trains this nice filly who has only been out of the money once in six tries.  She has two wins and was second two back in the Big M two back.  This will be the first time she has tried a route so she has something to prove, but I doubt she will be embarrassing, barring injury.