The Miesque Stakes, a Grade 3 event for 2yo fillies, is one of four graded stakes races on the Paris racecard, and this 7-furlong event features a compact field of talented young femmes looking to edge toward superstar status. A couple of undefeated stakes-debut types join a pair of established stakes runners and a pair of graded-stakes winners in the compact field of six.<\/p>\n
They’ll be going after a $150,000 purse and the famed “France Didn’t Surrender – Today” Trophy.<\/p>\n
GIANT IN THE SKY<\/b> is a Giant’s Causeway filly, the first out of a 10yo Forty Niner sim mare that had a long 71-race career. The dokki<\/i> trainee won at first asking, but couldn’t keep up in a pair of graded tries right after that. She seems to be getting better now with a pair of solid wins against lesser; is it improvement or weaker company? Only her farrier knows for sure… To this writer’s surprise, the CPU handicapper is impressed, making her the 9\/5 favorite.<\/p>\n
ONE MORE GHOST<\/b> is just a couple of strides away from being undefeated on the grass after a fast-closing near-miss in a small stakes at this distance last time out. A daughter of lightly-used Aussie sire Onemorenomore out of a Sim stakes-winner by Ghostzapper, this deadwood66<\/i> trainee hasn’t tried the graded-stakes wars yet, and gets 4\/1 odds for her first try.<\/p>\n
MEZZI<\/b> is 2-for-2 thus far for italst<\/i> and has shown a strong closing kick, but tries stakes company for the first time. A King Kamehameha filly out of a stakes winning Sim mare by Green Desert, she shows a ton of promise but tries much tougher here. Her speed figure last time was solid, and she could pull off a mild 4\/1 upset on her best effort.<\/p>\n
SCOOCH ON OVER<\/b> is undefeated, if you don’t count her April debut on a wet course. A daughter of King Kamehameha out of a stakes-winning Sadler’s Wells mare who has produced fairly well in the sim, she has all the earmarks of a future star, especially if she is able to prove she can handle longer races. She begins her quest to do just that here, having not raced beyond 6 furlongs in the past. The cylla1111<\/i> trainee’s bankroll is quite a bit larger than those of the rest of today’s field’s totals, combined. Lots of positives in this one’s favor, and friendly 2\/1 odds to boot.<\/p>\n
COSSACK SINGA<\/b> pulled off a 25\/1 upset in her debut at a slightly longer distance and the scratch-bred Danasinga filly looks for a much bigger prize here. The thehofman1<\/i> trainee gets 25\/1 odds again… While large race-to-race improvements sometimes happens with 2yo’s, this looks like a pretty steep hill to climb.<\/p>\n
WENT WOOSHKA<\/b> is a scratch-bred Dansili x Storm Cat x Kingmambo filly trained by tazbred3<\/i>. She started off her career with a bang (3 straight wins), but bombed badly in the Grade 1 Meydan Stakes and was then brought down to a smaller stakes where she ran a pretty-good 3rd. Looking at her single 7-furlong try it appears she can handle the distance well, but against this company it’s a tall order. She goes off at 6\/1.<\/p>\n
One of the things a handicapper likes to know when evaluating a race is, “Who is going to set the pace?”. It seems to me that the closest to an early-lead type of runner here is SCOOCH ON OVER<\/b>. With her proven ability in graded races and the strong possibility of an easy lead, this one will be very tough to beat.<\/p>\n
I’ll take MEZZI<\/b> as my choice to get closest with her late run.<\/p>\n
GIANT IN THE SKY<\/b>, the other graded-stakes winner in the field, should be able to grab the show dough.<\/p>\n
Good luck all!<\/p>\n
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