Eight Run in All Slide Memorial
The tenth race on the card for this week in Mexico is The All Slide Memorial, a two mile race on the turf for fillies and mares. The total prize purse for this race is $45,000. Eight fillies have drawn into the All Slide Memorial Stakes. Lets take a look at the competition.
Breaking from the rail will be Pedro’s Pick (Kurofune x Unfuwain x Saint Ballado) owned and trained by pjlstables This four year old filly has a total of six career wins out of ther sixteen starts. Her last start was in The Naughty Turk Bonanza Stakes in Illinois were she won by five lengths over the rest of the field. This filly has not finished out of the money since The Tarbash’s Birds Memorial, whigh was run on the dirt in Utah. She has never finished out of the money in a turf race. Her worst finish to date in a turf race was a fifth place finish in The South Around Cat Challenge.
In the two slot will be Ed’s Hansel Point (Peintre Celebre (IRE) x Hansel x Freezing Rain) trained and owned by edsnags . This four year old filly has had a total of nineteen career starts, two of which have been wins. Her last start was an allowance race in British Columbia where she finsihed second by six and one-fourth lengths. Her last stakes start was a fifth place finish in The Fort Pulpit Stakes. The fillies last win came last year during a stakes race in Conniticut. The highest speed figure recorded for this filly was a 95 last year, since then she has been consistently running speed figures in the 70’s and 80’s. Ed’s Hansel Point will be going off with odds of 14:1 with jockey S. Belcher riding.
Next will be the 7:1 shot Flaming Pegasus (Fusaichi Pegasus x Cee’s Tizzy x Formidable) trained by susie . This three year old filly has thee wins in a grand total of fourteen career starts. The fillies last start was in The Unbridled Haunting Bonanza, where she won by six and one-fourth lengths. This classy fillly has not finished out of the money in the last seven starts, which includes starts on the turf and on the dirt. Her last finish which was not in the money was Hong Kong’s Grade III Triangular Star Stakes, in which the filly finished a well beaten tenth. Jockey for Saturday’s race will be V. Johnson.
Folling in the line up will be Big Mama Thornton (T.M. Opera O x Housebuster x Sea-Bird) owned by mrass . This four year old filly has had a total of thirty career starts, more starts than most of the field, five starts of which have resulted in wins. Her last start was a third place finish in South Africa’s Sydney Achievement Special. Her last win was just a few months prior in The Dancewithatigress Handicap, where she won by a length and a half. Her last race in which she finished out of the money was The Amigo’s Rumba (IRE) Handicap where she finshed a shocking twenty-one lengths behind the leader. Big Mama Thornton will be going off at odds of 7:1 and will be ridden by S. Colon.
Next will be the favourite in Saturday’s race, Involvedd (Java Gold x Rahy x Deputy Minister) trained and owned by uncfan23 . This striking four year old chestnut filly has a total of twenty-eight career starts. Her last start, also here in Mexico, was in The ZZ Desert Challenge, where she finsihed fourth. Suprisingly this filly has not won a race in her last nine starts. HEr last win was in The Bustfully Spin Challenge in Nevada were she recorded a nintey-six speed figure and won by one length. Jockey this Saturday will be N. Boman.
In the number six post is North Of Moscow (Northern State x Moscow Ballet x Mickey Mcguire) trained by looney1 This four year old chestnut filly has had a total of twenty-four starts, five of which have been wins. Her last start was in the fourteen furlong Peach Leslie Challenge where she finished third, three lengths behind the winner. The fillys last win was in an allowance race in Arkansas. This will only be her sixth start at stakes level this weekend. Her best finish in a stakes race to date is third place in both The Peach Leslie Challenge and The Blackberry Drill Stakes. North of Moscow will be going off at odds of 4:1.
In the seven slot will be our longshot, going off at odds of 99:1, Greedy Camcorder (Do It Again Dan x Known Fact x Tom Fool) trained and owned by sipaki . At six years of age this is the oldest mare in this race with a total of fourty-four starts, and one win. Her speed figures range from the thirties to low sixties. Her last start was in the twelve furlong Frency (GB) Stakes where she finshed fifth far behind the rest of the pack, obviously not handling the twelve furlong distance. Her only win occured two years ago in a Maiden Special Weight, at that point in Greedy Camcorder’s career she was owned by irishgal and was sold to sipaki three months ago. The filly will be ridden by jockey K. Woods.
Breaking from the far outside post will be Ichi Rashi (Kris S. Nureyev x Mr. Prospector) owned and trained by dagrims 2 At five years of age this chestnut mare is the second oldest mare in this race. She has a total of thirty-two career starts and eight wins. Her last start was in The Forest Hannah (GB) Memorial where she finshed fourth. Her last win was The Frenchy (GB) Stakes where she won by two and one-fourth lengths. She is also a fairly accomplished graded stakes mare with a third place finish in the Grade I Black Gold Stakes. This mare has not finsihed out of the money in her last nine starts. She will be ridden by jockey M. Buck.
Could this end up being a two-horse race between the favourtie Involvedd and the highly accomplished turf runniner Pedro’s Pick . Or will a longshot take the win. We will learn the answer on Saturday.