Triangular Star Stakes Draws Ten To Run

The fifteenth race on this Saturday’s card, and the second to last race of the day here in Hong Kong will be the $125,000 Triangular Star Stakes (G3). The prestigious race is run over a mile and one sixteenth over the turf. The race is open to only three year old fillies. According to local weather forecasts there should be no chance of unfavorable weather this weekend, so we can all expect the track to be listed as firm at post time. Ten fillies have drawn into this years Triangular Star Stakes, let’s take a look at the fillies running in this years’ Triangular Star.

Drawing the rail will be the late entry Dazz (ENG) (Beat Hollow x Lear Fan x Crafty Prospector), who is out of the graded stakes winning dam Prospector Bluffy, and is trained by dimitri, owner of Dimitri Stables. The chestnut filly has been lightly raced thus far in her career with only five lifetime starts. All five of this spectacular fillies starts have ended in finishes on the board, with two of these finishes resulting in victory. Her most recent start came last month in the seven and a half furlong listed Qurense (IRE) Bonanza. Here the chestnut filly broke out of the starting gate chasing the pace setters in fourth. She started picking off the other horses early in the race, but ran out of ground at the wire finishing third with a lifetime best speed figure of ninety-two. Her most recent win came in September of last year during an allowance caliber start over six and a half furlongs in Queensland. The filly settled back towards the rear of the field and again made an early move to fly past other horses, eventually going on to win the race by one and one-fourth lengths.

In the second slot will be Exotic Film (ENG) (Halling x Palace Music x Mountain Cat), who is out of the stakes placed dam Cee Addle Slough, and is trained by julep, owner of Hellum Farms. The English-bred bay filly has had a total of seven career starts. Four of these starts ended in wins for the magnificent filly, with two ending in shows, leaving the filly with only one race in which she did not finish on the board. Her most recent start came earlier this month in the six furlong Nineteen Storm Challenge where the filly broke out of the gate and settled into fifth. She began picking off other horses straight away and made her way up into the lead in the stretch, winning by a length with a speed figure of eighty-seven. This Saturday will be the young fillies first start against graded stakes competition.

Coming in at odds of 5/`1 is Camargue (Dynaformer x Carson City x Deputy Minister), who is out of the dam Gulfstream Breeze, and is owned by cajunboy2, owner of Lsumark Stables. The impeccably bred bay filly has been lightly raced throughout her career with a total of only four lifetime starts. Half of these starts ended in victory, with another one resulted in a third place finish, leaving the filly to only finish off the board once during her four-race career. Her most recent start came last month in Newmarket during the Full Book (GB) Memorial where the filly was out of the gate a beat slow, uncharacteristic based on her other starts, but she started to make a move in the late stretch and got up to finish fourth, with a speed figure of eighty-seven. The speed was a lifetime best for the filly, despite the fourth place finish being the worst finish of her career. Her most recent win came in November during a seven furlong allowance caliber start in Dubai where she took the lead in the turn after setting off the pace in third.

Next is Dubai Property (ENG) (Dubawi (IRE) x Manndar (IRE) x Storm Cat), who is out of the race-winning dam Man Of Property (IRE), and is trained by lgbost2, owner of Lgbost Stables. The bay filly has had a total of seven lifetime starts. Of these seven lifetime starts, the filly has won a total of three career races. She has finished on the board in six of her races, leaving only one start in which she finished off the board. Her most recent start came last month on a yielding turf track during an allowance caliber race in North Korea. Here the filly broke out of the gate in fourth, settling back just off the pace. At the turn of the eight and a half furlong race she started to make her move, going on to win going away by four lengths with a speed figure of seventy-six. Her most recent stakes start came in late October during the Graduation Stakes (G1) where the filly broke towards the back of field and made her move late in the stretch to finish seventh.

Following will be Gold For The Grave (Dynaformer x Pine Bluff x Mr. Prospector), who is out of the multiple Grade I winning champion dam, Ghoul’s Gold, and is owned by cougar, owner of Cougar Stables. The blue-blooded bay filly has a total of seven lifetime starts. Five of the fillies career starts have ended in wins, with the other two starts both resulting in second place finishes. The impressive filly has never finished worse than second in any start. Her most recent start came last month in Indiana during the mile long Bright Silver Stakes where the filly broke out of the gate just off the pace in fourth. At the turn the filly began to make her move to challenge the front runners, eventually going on to win with a speed figure of ninety-two, a lifetime best for the filly. Prior to this start, she also won an allowance caliber start over eight and a half furlongs. This Saturday will be the fillies first attempt at a graded stakes race.

In the sixth post will be Rant And Rave (ENG) (Pivotal (GB) x Machiavellian x Mr. Prospector), who is owned by super27, owner of More Evil Than The Evil Empire. The bay filly has had a total of six lifetime starts, of which half of these has ended in wins for the daughter of Pivotal (GB). All of these wins came over the turf. Her most recent start came last month in the Juvy Fillies Turf Restricted where the filly broke out of the gate in mid pack and settled into seventh. The filly never fired in the race and crossed the wire in eighth with a speed figure of seventy-six. Her most recent win came last November during the listed West Music Challenge where the filly won impressively by two lengths after going wire to wire. Her most recent graded start also came in November during the Silver Spoon Juvenile (G2), over a good turf track. Here the filly finished thirteenth.

Longshot Woette’s Rabbit (Forest Wildcat x Kingmambo x Warning (GB)), who is trained and owned by goldeneye, owner of The Royalstables of Ostend, is next. The bay Kentucky-bred filly has had a total of nine career starts. Six of these nine starts have ended with finishes on the board, four of these which were wins. Her most recent start came last month in an eight and a half furlong allowance caliber race in Malaysia where the filly broke out of the gate and settled into the second position, just off the flank of the leader and to the outside. After running the entire distance of the race off the flank of the pacesetter, the filly sprung forward to challenge in the late stretch, winning by a length with a speed figure of seventy-three. Her most recent stakes start also came last month, this in The Full Book (GB) Memorial where she finished eighth. Her most recent graded start came in France in mid August during the Moony Stakes (G3) where the bay filly finished ninth.

Next is Rahy’s Broad (Rahy x Broad Brush x Lear Fan), who is owned by pointblank, owner of Right At Home Stables. This bay Kentucky-bred filly has a total of nine lifetime starts. Of these she has won twice, placed second twice and finished third twice. All of the fillies on the board finishes have come over the turf. Her most recent start came in Ireland earlier this month in the six furlong Whodini Shootout (G2). Here the filly broke out of the start gate towards the back of the field in tenth. She made a gradual move in the late stretch but crossed the wire in eighth with a speed figure of seventy-eight. Her most recent win came in September of last year during an eight furlong allowance caliber start in Minnesota where the filly hung back towards the middle of the field in eighth and made a move in the turn before the stretch and then rocketing past the tiring horses, to win by one a and a half lengths.

At morning line odds of 8/1 will be Smooze (NZ) (Zabeel (NZ) x Marscay (AUS) x Rubiton (AUS)), who is owned and trained by holyghost, owner of Sabalou Stables. This New Zealand-bred chestnut filly has had a total of nine career races, of which four have resulted in wins. The fillies most recent start came earlier this month in a nine furlong allowance caliber start in New South Wales where the filly broke out of the gate and settled two and a half lengths behind into second. In the late stretch the filly shifted into high gear and overtook the tiring pacesetting, going on to win with a speed figure of eighty-five by one and three-fourth lengths. Her most recent stakes start came in November during the mile long Diamond Slipper Restricted where the filly finished third on the good turf track. Her most recent graded start came last year in June during the Fauster’s Juvenile Cup (G1) where the filly finished just in the money at fifth.

Drawing the far outside post is favorite Crime Beat (IRE) (Danehill Dancer (IRE) x Storm Cat x Sadler’s Wells), who is owned by lenny4, owner of The Evil Empire. The bay mare has had a total of seven career starts. Of these seven starts the filly has won six of these, no doubt an impressive record. Her only defeat resulted in a finish off the board, though the filly was run on an off track that day. Her most recent start came last month in Maryland during the Dancing Blade Handicap (G1) over eight furlongs where she broke out of the gate and settled mid pack into seventh. At the turn she started to make a slight move and then came flying down the stretch, going on to win by a length with a speed figure of ninety-one, tying her personal best lifetime speed figure that she recorded a few months earlier in the listed Summer Mill Bonanza.