{"id":1023,"date":"2005-10-28T16:13:25","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T16:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1023"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"KRISHNA SQUARES OFF AGAINST LA PATA DAISY IN TURF DISTAFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:State w:st=\"on\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">New York<\/B><\/st1:State><\/st1:place><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">&#8211;<\/B>The best long distance turf fillies and mares in the game will race eleven furlongs to decide who is this year\u2019s best turf filly or mare.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This race has it all, storyline\u2019s galore.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Here are just some of the themes in this race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The number one ranked older female faces off against the number ranked one filly as <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Krishna<\/B><\/st1:place> goes against <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The winner of last year\u2019 Distaff, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Turning Japanese<\/B>, and the third place finisher, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Grand Caffreys(Ire)<\/B>, of that race compete in this race for the second consecutive year.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A win by <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Turning Japanese<\/B> would be a tremendous accomplishment and she might be peaking at the right time to do so<B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Bring Me Joy<\/B> has compiled a terrific year by winning ten races in the past year while competing, for the most part, in regular stakes.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She now makes a big step up and could surprise.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Rage More Piper<\/B> is the second ranked older filly and wants some respect and the number one ranking.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Devil\u2019s Slide<\/B> could be an emerging star.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>And <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">A Gold City<\/B> could be the lone early speed and may steal the race.<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Helping to sort out this race is my erstwhile colleague, Official Hong Kong Handicapper, Pete \u2018The Hatchet\u2019 Wang.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>All this last week he has tirelessly studied the entrant\u2019s past performances, watched their video\u2019s and caught up to some of the trainer\u2019s for their comments.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He will present each entrant\u2019s credentials and examine their potential performance, so without further ado, the field for the Distaff:<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP1, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Alluvial\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=88895\">Mockingbird<\/A><\/B> (20-1, <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Lawton<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201c<B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Mockingbird<\/B> is a three year old daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Atticus<\/B> out of a <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Kingmambo<\/B> mare.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is a winner of three of sixteen, has earned over $767,000 in her career and is currently third in the three year old division.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>For most of her three year old season she has been competing head to head against <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B> and has hung tough with her all year.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She was third to her in both the Oaks De English and the Sim Sports Irish Oaks.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In the Dahlia Cup she was second to her while in the Ayla Cup she was fifth while <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B> was second.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>All in all, not too bad of a season considering how dominant <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B> has been in her division.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Mockingbird<\/B> is a closer who last won a race in week 2454 when she won the eleven furlong G1 DUR AJC Oaks.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Coincidently, eleven furlongs is the distance of this race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I caught up with her owner in the barn area and she had this to say about her accomplished filly.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u2018She cost 332 credits to breed last year, and her name is a play on her sire &#8211; <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Atticus <\/B>(Atticus Finch is the lawyer in To Kill A Mockingbird).\u00a0 There&#8217;s a bunch of nice fillies in here, and I think she&#8217;ll need to put up a career-best speed figure to win against this group.\u00a0 While <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Mockingbird&#8217;s<\/B> Grade 1 win came at this distance, 11 furlongs is probably on the shorter end of her distance range, so I suspect she&#8217;ll be closing late again.\u00a0 I ran her on the dirt last time out against males, partly to try a dirt to turf angle, but partly to see how she&#8217;d handle the dirt, since she ran a nice race in her only previous dirt outing. Based on her flying finish against the boys, and her speed figure,\u00a0I&#8217;m guessing she may ultimately be better on the dirt, but she&#8217;s no slouch on the lawn.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pleased to get the local rider, <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Lawton<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>, aboard (who gave her a good ride the only other time the two were paired, finishing second in the Dahlia Cup) &#8211; she was my second choice behind P. Bangs &#8211;\u00a0and we&#8217;ll see how it goes.\u00a0 <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Alluvial<\/I> is a resident of DelPenn.\u2019<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Now I\u2019m going to disagree a bit with her trainer as to her chances in this race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Since her last win was at this distance, I\u2019m going to consider this distance as her potentially her best distance.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Based on when she ran in the DUR AJC Oaks and her further maturity since then, I think she can run a low 100\u2019s speed rating for this distance.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That type of a number will put her in the mix late in the race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Further, I think the fact that she raced on the dirt against the boys will toughen her up for this race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I think she has a real good shot to hit the board, so I will use her under in my wagers.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP2, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Stalpipo\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=7583\">Big Farcough Horse <\/A><\/B>(31-1, McClendon).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cTenth ranked older female is the longest shot in the race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This daughter of Krisinsky brings some early speed to the race, however I do not think she is as fast as the other early speed horse, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">A Gold City<\/B>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Big Farcough Horse<\/B> has had a very nice career, winning 17 times in 45 starts and earning over $673,000.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In the last year she has won six of her starts, all stakes, including an eleven furlong stake win in week 2710.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her recent best speed rating also came at the eleven furlong distance, a 96 she put up when finishing third in a Grade III.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In an oddity, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Big Farcough Horse<\/B> has never won a graded race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>They say there is a first time for everything, but I don\u2019t think she will prevail today.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP3, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Kyclocker4\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=88318\">Stage Coach Slew(Ire)<\/A><\/B> (17-1, <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">Gardner<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201c<B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Stage Coach Slew<\/B> is a daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Theatrical<\/B> out of a <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Gone West<\/B> mare.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Seventh ranked in the three year old division, she has started the least amount of races of any of the competitors.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That is not to say, however, that she lacks experience as she\u2019s hit the board in one G2 and in two G1\u2019s in her last four starts.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She does have eleven furlong experience, finishing third in the G1 Go Deep Handicap with a 97 speed rating and a second in the G2 Girl\u2019s Of Summer in which she just missed at the wire.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her last race was a 13 furlong effort so she should have a deep base for this race that see\u2019s her cut back in distance.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I caught up with her trainer and the trainer had this to say about Stage Coach Slew and her chances: \u2018I had the last filly that drew into the race, Stage Coach Slew(IRE). I didn&#8217;t really think she had a shot to get in, but somehow she squeaked in. She&#8217;s still only an\u00a0ALN1X winner, so I\u00a0debated if I should even try her against this field, as there are some big name\u00a0fillies in this race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>But she&#8217;s had some big runs this year, especially back in the <STRONG>SIM Sports Irish Oaks<\/STRONG><STRONG>&#8211;<\/STRONG>G1 , were she beat a couple fillies that\u00a0are in this race, and in my opinion was closing in on <STRONG>LA PATA DAISY<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 She didn&#8217;t care too much for the off track when she faced <STRONG>DEVIL&#8217;S SLIDE<\/STRONG> in the Go Deep Handicap-G1, but she ran a decent race. And her last two she&#8217;s had a little trouble in training (only coming up RTG). But she&#8217;s sharp this week, and I think she could surprise a few people. I realize she&#8217;s only won twice, but she also has yet to finish off the board on turf. So something\u2019s gotta give.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Something indeed has got to give.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I think she is better then 17-1, but I only foresee her winning a minor share of the purse.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If she had that one big graded win then she could sway me to use her, but the amount of class in this field makes it impossible for me to use her.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I\u2019ll bet her in next year\u2019s edition when she is the class of the field.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP4, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Corka\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=74340\">Grand Caffery(Ire)<\/A> <\/B>(10-1, Givins).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cFour year old daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Desert King<\/B> is making the 40<SUP>th<\/SUP> start of her illustrious career.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won nine of her prior starts and of those nine wins, six were grade I\u2019s.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her career earnings are over $2.8 million dollars.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>So much for ducking tough competition.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Currently ranked fifth, this closer ran in this race last year and was third.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In week 2580 she won the G1 Yolkshire Oaks, so she is still capable of winning a G1.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lately <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Grand Caffery<\/B> has been racing mostly ten furlongs and in those races she\u2019s had mid 90\u2019s speed ratings.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I think her speed rating will increase as she adds a furlong and she should be in the upper 90\u2019s for this race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I don\u2019t know if that figure will be good enough to win, but she\u2019s always been a money horse so it is possible for her to pull off the upset.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP5 <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Fernando\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=37496\">Five Littleindians(Ire)<\/A> <\/B>(19-1, Child).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cNinth ranked older female is a five year old daughter <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Adieu Au Roi<\/B> who was an auction purchase from a <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">nextbonus <\/I>affiliated stable.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>For the past few months she has done really well when racing in ordinary stakes and her year and auction price was really magnified when she won the G3 Canary Stakes in her most recent start.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The mare has some back class as she won the G1 Adeline Oaks in week 1747 when she was three.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I caught up with Fernando and he explained that he \u2018bought this mare last week in the auction for $5.5 million to run in this race. <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>I have always runners in the Breeders Bowl but not this year so I bought to have one.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I don\u2019t know much about her, but who knows, perhaps she can win.\u2019<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Shades of Bob and Beverly Lewis, however <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Five Littleindians <\/B>should run better then the Lewis\u2019 horses do.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP6, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Palmisland\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=95034\">Lacrima<\/A><\/B> (19-1, Gunn).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cThis three year old is a daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Forty Niner <\/B>out of a <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Storm Bird<\/B> mare.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has won six of sixteen starts, has earned over $588,000 and is ranked fifth in the Division.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her connections also own <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In talking with Rafa, I found out that she is named after a Spanish wine.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If she wins I\u2019ll have to go out and find a bottle (I probably will do so even if she loses.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Those Spanish wines are good!).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She faced <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B> in the Dahlia and was 7<SUP>th<\/SUP>, but I think that race (14 furlongs) was too long for her.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It seems to me that she does her best running when the races are between nine and twelve furlongs.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She did win the twelve furlong G2 Rippleschip Stakes in week 2524.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She comes into this race off a win in a nine furlong stake that saw her post her best ever speed rating, a 97.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If this stalker runs back to that figure, she will be a factor.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Rafa assured me that <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Lacrima<\/B> is ready for this race and he thinks it will be the best effort of her career.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP7, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Redturkey\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=20661\">Hail To The King<\/A><\/B> (21-1, Rolling).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201c<B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Hail To The King<\/B> is the second ranked three year old filly.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Kingmambo<\/B> beat <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B> in the fourteen furlong Ayla Cup.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Prior to that week 2552 <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Hail To The King<\/B> faced off against <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B> in the twelve furlong G1 Sim Sports Irish Oaks and was fourth.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Overall <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Hail To The King<\/B> is six of sixteen in her career and has earned over $835,000.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is very talented and classy, however I believe that this accomplished closer is at a disadvantage in this race because the race is just too short for her.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She would be my upset special horse if this race was longer.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP8, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Foxon4\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=87997\">Bring Me Joy<\/A><\/B> (15-1, P Harzheim).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cThis filly could be the real sleeper of the race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Forty Niner<\/B>, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Bring Me Joy<\/B> has won ten times in the past year.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Overall she is fifteen of thirty and has earned over $523,000.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She flies beneath the sim radar because she runs almost exclusively in ordinary stake races.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has completely dominated those races.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her last nine races, all stakes, she has won seven times.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She did try a Grade II in that stretch and her graded debut was a success as she won the G2 That Goat That Just Fainted Cup with a 98 speed rating.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Odds are a little higher then they should be because she had an 87 two starts ago when racing 13 furlongs.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Generally her speed ratings are in the upper 90\u2019s.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Has yet to have a 100 speed rating, but she\u2019s been winning her races so easily she hasn\u2019t had to.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I\u2019ll make this stalker my Tsing Tao longshot selection and use her top and bottom in my exotics.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP9, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Pm2\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=85322\">Rage More Piper<\/A> <\/B>(18-1, Darling).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cShe is second ranked in the older division even though she has the same amount of stake points as <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Krishna<\/B><\/st1:place>.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Must be a start money thing to determine who is rated first.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Obviously if she outfinishes <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Krishna<\/B><\/st1:place> she\u2019ll be to ranked and have the inside track to those end of the year awards.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Overall in her career, this daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Sadler\u2019s Wells<\/B> is nine for twenty in her career and has earned over $874,000.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her best recent race and triumph came in week 2580 when she won the twelve furlong G1 Brisbane Distaff with a 102 speed rating.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>After that race, in her most recent race, she raced in the thirteen furlong Time Traveler Bonanza and had an uncharacteristically poor effort.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Rage More Piper\u2019s<\/B> trainer had this to say about the filly:<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u2018<B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Rage More Piper<\/B> is in good order for her big day on Saturday.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Everything so far has gone well for her and now please god on the day she can run up to her best of her ability.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She got her name from my favorite actress Piper Perabo who was in Coyote Ugly, but the term &#8220;rage more&#8221; came from one of her lesser films called Lost and Delirious.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is a dream to train and has won from 7 furlongs up to 2 miles where she beat the boys in a grade 1 race, also she can lead all the way or come from last to first, she really is a trainer\u2019s dream.\u2019<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I also think she has a realistic shot of winning this race as her best speed ratings are comparable to the other major contenders.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I\u2019ll use her top and bottom in my exotics wager.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP10, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Afc\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=89473\">Devil\u2019s Slide<\/A> <\/B>(7-1, Ledwith).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cFourth ranked three year old filly is on fire and is making a strong bid to be filly of the year.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Kingmambo<\/B> out <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Seattle Slew<\/B> mare has been virtually unbeatable since she began racing on the turf in week 2496.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has made eight turf starts and has won six of those with her only losses being second place finishes.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>During that period she has earned over $1.2 million on the lawn.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Overall she is ten of nineteen and has earned over $1.4 million so you can see just how good she became when she made the surface switch.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her last seven races she has not put up a speed figure of under 100.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has two Grade I wins during this streak and both her seconds came in Grade I races.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has a G1 win at the eleven furlong distance.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>If she finishes ahead of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B> in this race it will put a lot of pressure on the voter\u2019s to decide who the better filly is.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">La Pata Daisy<\/B> has been dominant at twelve furlongs and <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Devil\u2019s Slide<\/B> has been really good going ten furlongs.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I\u2019ll use her top and bottom in my exotics.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP11, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Dkyoung7\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=86810\">Turning Japanese<\/A><\/B> (5-1, Bangs).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cAnother mare who ducks no one.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Sunday Silence<\/B> races almost exclusively in Grade I races.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her career she has won twelve of twenty-five races and has earned over $2.9 million dollars.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Of her twelve wins, four wins have been Grade 1\u2019s and they include last year\u2019s edition of the BB Turf Distaff.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Was a closing third in the Flower Pot and in the race prior to that she won the G1 Demona Handicap.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Last year she won the Flower Pot before she won the Distaff.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s also a must use in the exotics.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP12, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Stevemunoz\u2019s <\/I><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=4723\">A Gold City<\/A><\/B> (H Harzheim).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cThis four year old filly is the speed of the early speed.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Fourth ranked daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Seeking The Gold<\/B> is definitely the one to catch.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Has a pair of stake wins at the eleven furlong distance, putting up speeds of<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>104 and 102.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her career, <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">A Gold City<\/B> has won eleven of twenty-five and has earned over $1.5 million dollars.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has two career G1\u2019s, a nine furlong win in the Princess Di at this track and in the 10.5 furlong Flounder Turf.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I caught up with her trainer and her trainer had this to say: \u2018While she did just run second last week in the Grade 2 &#8220;Milky Way&#8221; in New Mexico, that was off of a six week break and think she&#8217;ll be\u2019 Razor Sharp\u2019 for the BB. As you can see in her PP&#8217;s, it took me a while to respect the fact that she is &#8220;all that&#8221; and I&#8217;ve had her on a &#8220;Horse of <SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN>the Year&#8221; path since the end of February. With that said, I feel she must win this to keep in the running for that honor. She got more gas than SHELL &#038; CHEVRON combined&#8230; so it appears she&#8217;ll be the one to catch.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>But, honestly, I&#8217;ve always been able to land capable jockeys and have never set the mandatory instructions for any race in here entire career. All her races were controlled by the jockeys. But my favorite race was the &#8220;Adrian Adonis&#8221; where she stayed back a little<BR>and pounced for an easy win. That is what I am hoping for here.\u2019<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A win here and she might have a solid claim against <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Krishna<\/B><\/st1:place> and the other major players.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Has the talent to win so you must use in the exotics.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP13, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Paceman2\u2019s <\/I><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=76711\">Krishna<\/A><\/B><\/st1:place><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"> <\/B>(9-2, R Harzheim).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cI think a win in this race could establish <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Krishna<\/B><\/st1:place> as one of the legends of the game, especially since wear and tear has been introduced.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This four year old daughter of <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Theatrical<\/B> has a tremendous career.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s won fourteen of thirty-two races and has earned over $3.5 million dollars.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has five career Grade I wins and two of those wins came on the dirt.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is a consistent 100+ speed rating performer.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Last year she went up against the boys in the BB Turf and was a respectable sixth.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The favorite has two eleven furlong races in her past eight starts and she paired 101 speed ratings in those efforts.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It sort of peculiar that both number one ranked fillies are next to each other on the outside.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The respective can keep an eye out for each when each makes their patented late move.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Obvious exotics inclusion.\u201d<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">PP14, <I style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\">Usoz\u2019s <\/I><SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0<\/SPAN><B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.thoroughbredracing.net\/hr\/runtime\/onehoss.asp?hossnum=29705\">La Pata Daisy<\/A><\/B> (12-1, Foster).<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cI\u2019ve been following this filly all year so I have difficulty remaining neutral about her.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I think she is fabulous.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s won eight of fifteen and has earned over $2.1 million dollars.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has five Grade 1 and a Grade 2 win this year.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her speed ratings are not as good as the older horses or <B style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\">Devil\u2019s Slide<\/B>, but she hasn\u2019t had to race to that level prior to this race.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In her last start she easily won the ten furlong <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:City w:st=\"on\">St John\u2019s<\/st1:City><\/st1:place>, a race that I thought was too short for her.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A win tops off a storybook season.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I ran into Rafa and he told me this about his filly, \u2018<st1:PersonName w:st=\"on\" ProductID=\"La Pata\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\">La Pata<\/SPAN><\/st1:PersonName><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"> Daisy is my great star. This will be the most difficult race she faces. Her name comes from her \u201cmother , and in English is Daisy Duck . Her \u201cmother\u201d was a very good original (not homebred) horse, which won a Grade II and could go 10 furlongs on turf.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN><st1:PersonName w:st=\"on\" ProductID=\"La Pata\">La Pata<\/st1:PersonName> comes Sharp to the race, and think <st1:place w:st=\"on\">Krishna<\/st1:place> will be her main rival.<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It is the first time she faces older, and I think she can improve her speeds.\u2019<SPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I obviously agree with that and will use her in all my wagers.\u201d<\/SPAN><\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/P><P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">It has been a thrill to preview what is sure to be a great race.\u00a0 I want to thank all who responded with quotes as you are what this game is all about.\u00a0 Good luck to all.\u00a0 No matter how your fillies and mares perform, you are all winners in my book.\u00a0 Until next time, <EM>may the racing Gods favor you<\/EM><EM><SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">.<\/SPAN><\/EM><SPAN lang=EN-GB style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top turf mare and filly face off for first time but will another spoil their day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":415,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}