In my Race Preview for the $1 million Grade-1 Colonial Downs 3 year old filly\/mare contest at 9 furlongs on the beautiful Berkshire Turf Course. I made the case for favoritism being awarded to one of the 4 top 25 rated runners in the field. It wasn\u2019t because I didn\u2019t think trainer Urcres1\u2019s filly Prabhu Deva wasn\u2019t a really good runner, who showed first class upper division potential. It\u2019s just that I felt that Trainer Tetsch\u2019s # 3 ranked Tom And Pap 7-1, Trainer Jetair\u2019s # 5 ranked Quality Buzz 6-1, Trainer Provolone\u2019s # 9 ranked Dancer Impactus 9-1 and Trainer Correction\u2019s # 25 ranked filly Mercato 9-1, all had more credentials, especially competing at the upper level Stake\u2019s, than Prabhu Deva. Horseracing can be humbling, especially to those who make bold statements of fact, but in this case I proved correct. Jetair\u2019s Quality Buzz launched a perfectly timed stretch rally to overtake the early leaders and then had to hold off the \u201cfurious\u201d late stretch rally of Correction\u2019s Mercato who was at her hind flanks at the wire.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> Aussloth\u2019s filly Jagged Lil Pill controlled the early pace thru 2 furlongs, her time at the quarter pole was an honest but certainly manageable 23:88. On her heels 1 length behind applying modest pressure were Dansili\u2019s filly Drinkin Money and Icbomber2\u2019s filly The Flying Wolf. Then came Mr. Kyle\u2019s filly Nothingisthesame and Bhima2\u2019s CK Roc Of Ages. Next came the favorite Prabhu Deva, who stalked the leaders in 6th<\/SUP> position on the rail, a comfortable 3 lengths behind Jagged Lil Pill. Meanwhile grouped 5 to 7 lengths behind the leader was Sheen\u2019s filly Magic Moon, Quality Buzz, who was being reserved in a firm grip by Jockey J. Stivers, Tetsch\u2019s filly Tom And Pap. Mercato in 13th<\/SUP> position, was saving ground \u00bd length behind this pack of runners.<\/FONT><\/P> Not much changed in the next 2 furlongs, Jagged Lil Pill went the \u00bd mile in a comfortable 48:12. It was apparent that several of the runners were beginning to struggle, Emerald1\u2019s Saltaire Bronze was already beginning to retreat dropping 3 positions from 9th<\/SUP> to 12th<\/SUP>, Provolone\u2019s Dancer Impractus, thought to be a contender was struggling in 15th <\/SUP>and Mayhem\u2019s Harby Wallbanger was alone in dead last, already with 15 \u00bd lengths to make up. <\/FONT><\/P> It was between 6 and 7 furlong markers entering the stretch run, that the complection of the race began to change and the chase to the wire began in earnest. Jagged Lil Pill was all out to hold the lead as The Flying Wolf desperately tried to run her down. Just 1 \u00bd lengths behind the top pair, Quality Buzz threw it into high gear and was obviously quickly cutting into the lead margin. Prabhu Deva moved into 4th<\/SUP> passing a now fading Drinkin Money and loomed boldly, maybe he was ready for this level after all, just to his inside Mercato was quickly moving up the rail to challenge and Tom and Pap was also trying to rally and join the lead group. A bit farther back Whobegoto\u2019s filly De Babe was frantically passing horses and trying to start a belated stretch rally but still had 10 lengths to overcome.<\/FONT><\/P> In mid stretch, Quality Buzz overhauled the dueling duo, Jagged Lil Pill and The Flying Wolf, who despite trying everything just couldn\u2019t get past Jagged Lil Pill\u2019s hind flank. Mercato was really flying up the rail trying to make up the last length on the battling pair and take one last crack at catching Quality Buzz. These four slugged it out to the wire with Quality Buzz holding off Mercado by a rapidly diminishing \u00be length and Jagged Lil Pill taking 3rd<\/SUP> by a short \u00bd length over a \u201cnever say die\u201d, The Flying Wolf. They were followed by a 3 way photo for 5th<\/SUP>, with Tom And Pap, catching the slightly fading Prabhu Deva, who held off the late charging De Babe, in a photo for 6th<\/SUP>.<\/FONT><\/P> Race Comments:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>(in order of finish)<\/FONT><\/P> QUALITY BUZZ:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>perfectly timed move by Jockey J Stivers, all out to win in a lifetime best 112 speed rating. Fast rise up 3 year old Classic Turf filly Division.<\/FONT><\/P> MERCATO:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>saved ground on rail early and made a huge stretch move that just fell short, now a bona fide Grade-1 threat.<\/FONT><\/P> JAGGED LIL PILL:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>extremely game, gutty effort by early leader, ran her hardest wire to wire. Well earned show effort.<\/FONT><\/P> THE FLYING WOLF: \u00a0<\/SPAN>doggedly pursued Jagged Lil Pill but never quite caught her. Honest hard knocking effort shows she can compete\u00a0with Grade-1 elite.<\/FONT><\/P> TOM AND PAP:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>reserved early, moved into contention at 6 furlong marker but couldn\u2019t sustain rally and settled for respectable 5th <\/SUP>place finish.<\/FONT><\/P> PRABHU DEVA:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>even effort, minor move entering stretch, loomed boldly in 4th<\/SUP>. Flattened out in stretch, moderate fade to surrender 5th<\/SUP> at wire, should move forward off decent effort.<\/FONT><\/P> DE BABE:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>14th<\/SUP> at 4 furlong call, conceded 12 \u00be lengths to leaders. Furious stretch rally but simply was too little too late.<\/FONT><\/P> DRIKIN MONEY: pressed leader early in 2nd<\/SUP>, still loomed prominent at 6 furlong marker. Moderate stretch fade compromised otherwise decent effort.<\/FONT><\/P> MAGIC MOON: <\/SPAN>raced evenly mid pack, never prominent or threatened lead group. Moderate stretch fade.<\/FONT><\/P> INSTANT OFFENSE: \u00a0<\/SPAN>raced evenly mid pack, never prominent, no response when asked to run entering stretch.<\/FONT><\/P> CK ROC OF AGES: \u00a0<\/SPAN>pressed early leaders in 5th, moved up to 4th<\/SUP> at 4 furlongs but then slow steady fade, dry stretch run.<\/FONT><\/P> TAKINITTOTHESTREET:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>raced evenly mid pack, never prominent, finished by the stretch, steady fade.<\/FONT><\/P> DANCER IMPACTUS:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>slow start, and never got into flow of race, disappointing race, already a steady fade after 2 furlongs.<\/FONT><\/P> NOTHINGISTHESAME: \u00a0<\/SPAN>was 4th early, tail end of early speed leaders, was out of it by 6 furlongs, faded badly in stretch.<\/FONT><\/P> HARBY WALLBANGER:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>stumbled at gate and broke last, already trailed by 10 lengths at 2 furlongs, dull effort, never a threat.<\/FONT><\/P> SALTIRE BRONZE:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>mid pack early, stayed with pace through 4 furlongs, but badly tired from effort and faded badly to last place finish.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quality Buzz produces lots of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394","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\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}