The race honoring the great Johnny Longdon features a solid group of three years old fillies going at 6 furlongs over the main course at THE BLUE SWORD (GB) (9-5-0-2)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Winner of five races, including three minor stakes over her short career. Badly beaten in her last two graded efforts, will need to improve to be competitive here.<\/P> NASHBARK (4-1-0-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Lightly raced filly, and because of this improvement is still very much expected, but for the moment I will lean elsewhere.<\/P> SWEETCHILDOFMINE (7-2-3-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Mineshaft filly whose only win came in a lower allowance event. Although she has not disgraced badly in stakes competition, this is a big step up for her.<\/P> LORELAI (5-2-2-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 This filly has shown nice potential over in the Japan Course. Now taking her game to cold FUTURE POSSIBLE (9-4-2-2)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Interesting filly, taking a cutback in distance and facing graded company for the first time. She should be forwardly placed and with a lil improvement, can light up the tote board.<\/P> MISS BAILEY (AUS) (9-2-2-2)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 This is a pretty talented filly, who has shown progress over her last races, but will need a big step up in her SP\u2019s to be able to win here against more seasoned fillies.<\/P> TALES OF THE CRYPT (9-1-3-1)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Her only victory so far has been at a maiden in VICTORY CHANT (11-1-1-4)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Her SP\u2019s so far are far below from the best in this race, another one who will need to show improvement for her to stand a chance here.<\/P> WALLY\u2019S DEHERE (8-4-1-2)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Winner of three minor stakes, including a come from behind victory at 8.5 furlongs in South Carolina in her last race. Cuts back in distance and she has a victory at 6 furlongs. Big threat.<\/P> GENNA LOU HO (8-4-3-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 This daughter of Rahy has shown ability to finish very strongly, although her best efforts have been at 7 furlongs and beyond. Her only graded event was a disappointment, but can be on the rebound, as shown in her last race.<\/P> WONDERGIRL <\/I><\/B> LIVE EIGHT (5-1-0-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Has not been able to compete in allowance level so far, will need tons of improvement to win here.<\/P> FU FU MASCUS (IRE) (9-5-1-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Royally bred winner of four minor stakes already. Although she has won at the distance, her best racing is at 7 furlongs or farther. Just as Crabby Patties, she will need a quick pace and some improvement to win.<\/P> PEACE BLOSSOM (5-4-1-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 This talented filly out of the champion sprinter Speighstown is already a G1 winner, taking the Sky Beauty in K\u2019S STAND TALL (7-6-1-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 She just lost her undefeated streak last time out in a hard fought stretch duel, now cuts back in distance and freshened up for this important commitment. Mayor player here.<\/P> NICKS BADBOY (7-2-0-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Her only non maiden win was in a lower allowance race and at a shorter distance. Will need her best effort and something above that to win.<\/P> MAIL ORDER BRIDE (9-6-0-1)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 So far this filly has faltered in graded company, taking a step up in class over her last efforts. She will need her best race and a lil bit more to win here.<\/P> WANGO TANGO (3-2-1-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Lightly raced and very talented filly, her SP\u2019s have been outstanding so far, showing improvement in every next effort. Coming out of a two month lay off, and working daylights in the mornings, is a force to be reckoned with.<\/P> KEPLER GNAGET (9-5-2-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Her stakes tries have been very forgettable, she must improve on those to be able to compete with these.<\/P> CRABBY PATTIES (12-5-1-0)<\/I><\/B> \u2013 Another G1 winner, and winner of three stakes races in just twelve starts, just missed out in her last race against Peace Blossom. Probably will need a strong pace to be able to win this race.<\/P> PEACE BLOSSOM<\/I><\/B> and K\u2019S STAND TALL<\/I><\/B> make a good one-two punch in this race, with WALLY\u2019S DEHERE<\/I><\/B> and WANGO TANGO<\/I><\/B> as an outside threat, looking to figure in the exotics.<\/P> Good luck to all the EQUINICS participants!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can Peace Blossom take them wire to wire?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"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-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","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\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}