By ITCH<\/P>
Rockriver2’s <\/EM>DESEEKER ($16.20)<\/STRONG> survived an early speed duel with TRIGGER’S GIRL G<\/STRONG>, then\u00a0made it\u00a0to the line just in time to withstand the late rush of STONE COLD BIRDIE<\/STRONG> to win Saturday’s route stake for 3yo fillies here Saturday.<\/P> In capturing the COMPTON STREET CHALLENGE<\/STRONG>, Deseeker <\/STRONG>matched her top lifetime speed fig of 92, but more importantly, did it going long as her third career stake victory was her first at a route of ground. The first two had taken place at 7 and 7.5 furlongs, and winning at 8.5 furlongs stamps Deseeker as an even more special filly.<\/P> As it was, Deseeker barely made it to the church on time, as Dougmatt’s <\/EM>Stone Cold Birdie<\/STRONG> came flying on the outside, only to come up a nose short of all the money.<\/P> It was a battle of contest trainers for the show money, as Nextbonus’<\/EM> BIG TIME STAR<\/STRONG> nipped Wassie’s<\/EM> Trigger’s Girl G<\/STRONG> for those two important contest points.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> \u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dehere filly earns hard-fought victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"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-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","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\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}