The Grade One Japanese 1000 Guineas kicks off the Classic season.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Run for a two million dollar purse at one mile over a firm turf course the race has attracted a field of nine, most of whom are stakes or graded winners.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This is only the fourth year the race has been run.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Both the 2010 winner Whipped and the 2011 winner Weary Kind went on to successful three year old seasons.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Whipped put together an impressive win streak taking the Japanese 1000 Guineas, the English 1000 Guineas and the Irish 1000 Guineas.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Last year\u2019s winner Weary Kind added the Grade One Motherly Love later in the season against older mares.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Let\u2019s take a look at the fillies vying for this year\u2019s honors.\u00a0 <\/SPAN> #1 Formlee is a daughter of Unbridled\u2019s Song out of the b-grade Cat Thief x Northern Dancer mare Sender Burglar.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Formlee is her second foal, the first is stakes placed.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A grade one winning millionaire, Sender Burglar is perhaps best remembered for her valiant second versus males in the Sand Castle Fee Duty in 2004.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Even though Sender Burglar was best on the grass, Formlee made her first four starts on the dirt, winning once.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She became a different horse when switched to the grass, compiling a 6-5-0-0 record on the grass.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her victories include two listed stakes races at one mile and a mile and one sixteenth.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has a career best speed number of 94. #2 Sea the Suns is a scratch-bred daughter of Sea the Stars x Storm Cat x Fappiano.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has an enviable 9-5-4-0 record with all of her starts coming on the grass.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s currently on a three race win streak.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her last two starts have been listed stakes races at a mile and one sixteenth and she earned identical 97sps in those races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Last season she was second in the Grade Three Palms Outwards Stakes, her only previous graded appearance.\u00a0 <\/SPAN> #3 Smoochable is a scratch-bred daughter of Dynaformer x Distorted Humor x Storm Cat.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won six times in nine starts with two third place finishes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She too is riding a three race win streak, all in stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>These include the Grade Two Dancing Blade at one mile and the Grade Three Triangular Star at a mile and one sixteenth.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She earned her best speed number in her most recent start, a 103 while winning the Rebel Yell N Turf Filly Mile.\u00a0 <\/SPAN> #4 Monster of Nature is a daughter of Lope De Vega out of the g-grade Gone West x Forty Niner mare Rumbling Storm.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Rumbling Storm has produced four foals, including a stakes winner and stakes placed runner but Monster of Nature is her best so far.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Monster of Nature won two stakes races last season including the Grade Two Rockefeller at seven furlongs.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has not done as well since stretching to one mile.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She ran an inexplicably poor race in the Grade One Juvenile Filly before returning and finishing second in the Grade Three Ice Cream Gold.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her last start she was fourth behind Smoochable in the Rebel Yell N Turf Filly Mile, although she did earn her highest sp to date of 100. #5 Songsational is a daughter of Unbridled\u2019s Song based on the g-grade A.P. Indy x Deputy Minster horse A.P. Minister.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Songsational started her career on the dirt but has really blossomed since switching to the grass where she has a 6-3-3-0 record.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She concluded her juvenile season with a win in the seven and one half furlong Wondergirl Echo Turf Juvenile Fillies.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She returned running in her first route race going a mile and three sixteenths in another listed stakes with a career best sp of 96.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Most recently she was a facile winner of the one mile Laguardia Turf Filly Mile with a 93sp. #6 Meteoric Buda is a daughter of Northern Meteor out of the b-grade Rock Hard Ten x Storm Cat mare Rock the Buda.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Rock the Buda earned her grade one win going a mile on the turf.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This is her second foal.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Meteoric Buda has won four of her last five starts including three graded wins.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She matched her dam\u2019s feat in her last start winning the Grade One Vermont is 4 Lovers with a 96sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her only race at one mile she won the Grade Three Ice Cream Gold where she also ran a 96sp (her career best is one point higher). #7 Surrealistic is a daughter of Distorted Humor based on the e-grade Dynaformer x Deputy Minister horse Kirby\u2019s Deputy.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Kirby\u2019s Deputy earned his only stakes win going a mile and three sixteenths on the grass.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Surrealistic ended her two year old season with a victory in an owner restricted stakes race going one mile with a 100sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She won her first open stakes in her most recent start, taking the mile and one sixteenth Miss Renee Turf Filly Route by an easy six lengths with an 81sp. #8 Tom and Pap is a scratch-bred daughter of Falbrav x Green Dancer x Habitat.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Tom and Pap ended last season with two graded victories at one mile.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In October she took the Grade Three Winter Gin Special and in November she took the Grade Two Silver Spoon Juvenile.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She was rested until March 10th<\/SUP> when she returned in the Favorite Storm Turf Filly mile where she closed like a freight train to finish second with a 98sp. #9 Go Pound Sand is a daughter of Montjeu out of the c-grade Gone West x Danzig mare Pound For Pound.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Pound For Pound was a stakes winner on both dirt and turf.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Last year Go Pound Sand won her first two starts, a maiden and an allowance race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She returned to the races this season with a second in a one mile allowance with a 94sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She made her stakes debut in her last start running seventh in the Sunshine Hollandia Turf Filly Memorial at a mile and one eighth with an 84sp. Good luck to all! 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