This week’s feature is $85,000 listed Florida Deputy(Fr) Stakes, a nod to the four-time stakes-winning mare who once won a listed stakes over this Dubai track.\u00a0 Since retiring, she’s produced stakes winner Irish River (Charismatic) and a promising filly by Indian Ridge(Ire), and has an unraced Galileo(Ire) two-year-old of this year.\u00a0 Six fillies and mares will line up to go a mile and five-sixteenths over the main track in the race that bears her name.<\/P>
The favorite at 8\/5 is baileybarn<\/EM> trainee Cookie Barn<\/STRONG> (Kingmambo), a homebred four-year-old with nearly $400,000 in earnings.\u00a0 She is GII-placed going nine furlongs and two for three at this distance, beaten just a nose in her only defeat.\u00a0 She was outclassed and never got into her preferred stalking position in the GIII Help…Mike’s Fallen & Can’t Get Up last out, but since committing to the main track, she’s never failed to pick up a check at this level.<\/P> Second choice is the politically-named Bush For Iraq Prez<\/STRONG> (Brocco).\u00a0 The four-year-old is a virtual machine for trainer charliep<\/EM>: she’s won or placed in nine of her ten races thus far and ran a professional race over a sloppy track to win the listed Beastie Peak(SAF) Challenge at nine furlongs last out.\u00a0 The 107 speed number that she notched there was much her best, but she’s a versatile runner and in with a chance even if she can’t reach those heights here.<\/P> The mile and five-sixteenths of this race should be a walk in the park for third choice Global Snow Mine <\/STRONG>(Snow Ridge); ahe’s spent her last several races going even longer than she will on Saturday.\u00a0 She was a GI winner at ten furlongs at three, but then-trainer globalsim<\/EM> dropped her into a $50,000 claiming race when she didn’t bounce back well.\u00a0 miguel91<\/EM> picked her out of that spot and returned her to winning form; she’s come out on top of an additional five listed stakes since then.\u00a0 Her last two efforts were lackluster, but the cutback in distance may perk her up a bit.\u00a0 A grand mare in a decent spot.<\/P> Makeupmymine<\/STRONG> (Contemplate) hails from the highclaim<\/EM> barn and her connections may have been doing a raindance this week: she’s three for three over an off-track.\u00a0 No such luck this week, but she’s run well on a fast track, too.\u00a0 She proved last out that distance is no problem, winning at twelve panels in a Norway allowance, but given a subpar effort in her only stakes start to date, she could perhaps have used a little help from the rain gods.<\/P> Bon Royale(Ire)<\/STRONG> (Not Impossible) makes her stakes return here after spending the last year and change in lesser company.\u00a0 She should feel at home, however: she was a five-time stakes winner in her younger days.\u00a0 Powerball<\/EM> is her fourth lifetime owner, picking her out of a $7,500 claiming race last year.\u00a0 She’s been running well in starter and allowance races since and will look to go wire to wire–if she’s fast enough.<\/P> The final starter is Ms. Chant<\/STRONG> (War Chant), a wolfcub<\/EM> homebred out of a Mr. Prospector mare.\u00a0 She spent her early career as a sprinter, but stretched ou a few starts back with good results.\u00a0 She’s a late-running closer who hasn’t been able to make much headway yet this year, but seems to improve as the races get longer, and this is her longest yet<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Consistent Cookie Barn leads the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}