{"id":1271,"date":"2005-12-02T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=1271"},"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=1271","title":{"rendered":"All Hail The Queen!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leona Helmsley was known as the Queen of Mean.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Martha Stewart is the Queen of Clean (who\u2019d be Queen of Mean herself if she wasn\u2019t already cryogenically frozen).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>But who really\u00a0was<\/STRONG><\/EM> Queen of Green?\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Well, she was a stakes-winning mare whose expertise lay in marathons on the grass.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She liked routes, and she could run all day and night if she wanted to during a successful career.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s now the dam of four with a very active lifestyle, and she\u2019s the subject matter behind the $55,000 Queen Of Green Stakes in <\/SPAN>Maine<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> this weekend.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Here\u2019s the field of four contenders to the throne:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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In Dee Creek <\/SPAN><\/B>[A.P. Indy-Coon Creek, by <\/SPAN>Danzig<\/SPAN><\/st1:place>] is 8\/5, but she\u2019s second choice among the quartet for the barn of tarski<\/I><\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her pedigree doesn\u2019t have too much in it to suggest she might be a feasible choice on grass—her dam was a stakes winner on dirt—and her background also seems to fall flat on turf form, considering this is only her second start on the lawn.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her one previous try was a fading third in a <\/SPAN>MSW<\/SPAN><\/st1:stockticker>, where her fig ended up being a 72.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This time around, she has three allowance wins under her belt, and a few stakes tries which have found her a bit in over her head.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her dirt form is alright, it must be said, with her numbers hovering around the century mark and her preferred running style of sitting chilly off the lead yielding some solid results at these middle distances.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It is<\/I> only a field of four, but it\u2019s a bit difficult to tell if she\u2019d recapture her earlier dirt form in his first grass start since January 15.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Still, this isn\u2019t exactly the hardest competition you might find.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Sierra Nevada<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:place> [Tale Of The Cat x Louis Quatorze] represents 40oz<\/I><\/B>, and contrary to In Dee Creek, she\u2019s had every start of hers on the grass since <\/SPAN>January 10, 2004<\/SPAN><\/st1:date>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has eight stakes wins, including a Grade <\/SPAN>III<\/SPAN><\/st1:stockticker>, and has picked up a paycheck in all but two starts.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She might not be a player on the main stage of the turf distaff division, but she\u2019s had an incredibly consistent ride going for her.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her numbers remain high, regularly hovering around the century mark and peaking with a 116 she earned in winning the Grade <\/SPAN>III<\/SPAN><\/st1:stockticker> Cootie\u2019s Sprint at <\/SPAN>Ascot<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> in her 2005 debut.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>And she\u2019s versatile, staying on the lead or coming from behind in most of her efforts.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Here, there might not be much speed for her to stalk, so she may just find herself on the front end by default.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She holds some back class over the field here, but this bunch appears to be unpredictable.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Eager Prospector<\/SPAN><\/B> [Chief Prospect x Legal Prospector] has won four times this year for trainer acarigua3<\/I><\/B>, but those wins have mostly been in claiming and allowance races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has started for a tag as low as $5K this year\u2026but then again, she\u2019s also cleared her NW3x allowance condition four back.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her numbers have begun to move upwards, into the high-80s to the low-90s, but they do fall short of the other three fillies at their best.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Expect her to do her best running from off the pace, but she\u2019ll need to raise her game substantially to ascend to the throne here.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Affirmed Thief<\/SPAN><\/B> [Cat Thief x Affirmed] races under the silks of pazthree<\/I><\/B>, and her numbers haven\u2019t cracked the century mark, either, but she romped in a Florida stakes last out stalking a slow, procession-like pace at a mile-and-three-sixteenths.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The race was an aberration, but not in the way one might think.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She won stalking a funereal pace (which hasn\u2019t been her most favorite style of attack) at a distance that hasn\u2019t gotten many wins for her, and earned a lower speed figure than she\u2019s earned since June.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Usually, she likes to be further off the pace, at middle distances, and her recent figs have been solidly in the mid-90s.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>While she\u2019s still eligible for a fourth-level allowance race, she\u2019s picked a pretty good spot, much like her last, to try and pick off a tiny field for a good-sized purse.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>One expects that she might try and let someone else pursue a leadership role while keeping a rein on the assumed leader to make sure that one maintains a sensible pace.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The race shapes up a lot more like her earlier stakes efforts, but the concern does remain that maybe she just would prefer another sixteenth of a mile.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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My selections:<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

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Queen: <\/SPAN><\/B>Sierra Nevada<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:place><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>

First Runner-Up: Affirmed Thief<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>

Second Runner-Up: In <\/SPAN><\/B>Dee<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:PlaceName> <\/SPAN><\/B>Creek<\/SPAN><\/B><\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>

Third Runner-Up: Eager Prospector<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>

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Good luck, happy racing, and God save the Queen.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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