Eight fillies go to the post in the second annual edition of the Kris My Hindend Memorial<\/b>, a 9furlong stakes for older mares on the dirt for $55k in prize money.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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PP1: Incandescence<\/b>, 3-1 on the morning line, gets top jockey M Wallace\tin the irons.\u00a0 Owner Repaper<\/i> has high hopes for his 5yo Unbridled’s\tSong mare to pick up her second straight stakes win.\u00a0 This striking dark\tgray mare has an excellent race record with 8 wins on 28 starts, most with respectable speed figures and solid win margins.\u00a0 Incandescence prefers to run near the lead, so look for a fast break and a comfortable pace on the rail for this mare. <\/p>\n
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PP2: Skyhigh’s<\/i> T Held Ransom<\/b> is a bit of an inconsistent horse.\u00a0 The\tchestnut 4yo Ransom Calling filly scored a big win two back in the Five Star\tVintage Stakes going 10.5 furlongs, but last time out she ran an uninspiring\tlast place in the 10-furlong Princess Jill. The good news is, when she’s\tat longish odds, she tends to win, so the 11-1 shouldn’t be a problem here.\u00a0 The\tbad news is, she’s a deep closer just like the field favorite Tricky N CLever\tbut without the fleet turn of foot that mare has.\u00a0 Ransom has a shot, but\tshe’s likely running for fourth or fifth.<\/p>\n
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PP3: Deelynette’s<\/i> graded winner Giddyup Diddie<\/b> is still campaigning\tafter 35 races and 8 wins with 10 more seconds and thirds.\u00a0 The light gray\tWith Approval mare hasn’t seen the winner’s circle since she picked up a\tG1 win in the Cedora D on grass last August, but don’t count her out here.\u00a0 Diddie\tran her first 34 starts on grass, but her canny trainer tried a shift to\tdirt in her last start in the 10 furlong Craft Prospector Special.\u00a0 The\tmove paid off with a second place with Diddie narrowing the margin right\tup to the wire.\u00a0 The step back to 9f might seem an odd move, but as it\tis the mare’s preferred distance on grass it does make sense.\u00a0 Like a few\tothers in the race, Diddie is a closer, but she doesn’t need to come from\tthe clouds to win.\u00a0 Look for her to settle near but not quite at the back of the pack, and to be in the thick of the charge for the wire. <\/p>\n
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PP4: One of the more lightly-raced fillies in the field is Eyrie<\/b>, trained\tby upperhand<\/i>.\u00a0 The 4yo filly is by Sky Mesa out of a Fappiano mare.\u00a0 She\thas 5 wins from 16 starts, the most recent a 2 1\/4 length victory in an allowance\tat California at 9furlongs on dirt. Eyrie is leaving sunny California for\tthe first time in 6 starts, and back in stakes company for the first time\tsince she ran fourth in the Well Heeled Memorial at 8.5 furlongs in March\t2005.\u00a0 Her recent race record suggests Eyrie can get the job done here\tto earn stakes win #2.\u00a0 Her frontrunning style means she’ll have to build\tup the biggest lead jockey M Hobley can manage and hold off a charge from\tat least two other fillies down the stretch.\u00a0 If she’s on her game, she\thas a good shot at pulling it off.\u00a0\u00a0 A pretty good bet at 6-1. <\/p>\n
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PP5: Aufan<\/b>, another young filly experience-wise, is the field longshot\tat 14-1.\u00a0 She;’s\ta 4yo by a son of Danehill out of a Lear Fan mare.\u00a0 Trained by Zozbee<\/i> and\tridden by T Carrol, the filly was stakes-placed before she broker her maiden\t(in an allowance no less) midway through her 3yo campaign.\u00a0 Since thenshe’s earned one allowance win in a wire-to-wire fashion at 9.5 furlongs.\u00a0 Herlone start of 2006 saw Aufan pick up a fourth place finish by almost 5 lengthsin the Elf Mercy Stakes at California gong 9 furlongs.\u00a0\u00a0 Tricky N Clever,the field favorite, won that race.\u00a0\u00a0 Aufan has a legitimate shot ata win here due in part to her versatility.\u00a0 One of her wins was on the lead;the other saw her rate nicely midpack. She is a few steps slower than the field,however, and will need her best effort to visit the winner’s circle. <\/p>\n
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PP6: Miss Alley <\/b>also ran in the Elf Mercy stakes, finishing in third\tabout a length ahead of Aufan. Tsukino’s<\/i> 6yo Deposit Ticket mare last\tran in the 9 furlong Beastie Peak(SAF) Challenge, but the sloppy track meant\ta disappointing 23-length loss.\u00a0 No matter, as the track is fast today.\u00a0 Miss\tAlley’s last win was three back in an allowance going a mile at Arizona;\tshe rated well for a solid 2-length victory.\u00a0 She has 4 wins on 16 starts,\tbut with only 2 stakes race on her record it’s hard to say just how good\tshe can be at this level.\u00a0 Based on speed figures, she’s just slightly\tslower than the top three in the field but she looks to have more to give.\u00a0 She\thas a good shot at a board finish.<\/p>\n
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PP7: Trainer 2furlongs<\/i> must be counting himself lucky for the brilliant\tclaim of Let It Down<\/b> 5 starts back for a mere $25k. The 5yo mare is not\tonly nicely bred (she’s by Exploit out of a Chief’s Crown mare) but moving\ther back to dirt has paid dividends in the form of a win and a place on 4\tstarts with her new owner.\u00a0 Let It Down’s most recent race was a 8.5furlong\tallowance at this track where she ran second by a narrowing length with a\t102SP.\u00a0 This race is her first against stakes company, and for that she\tmust be ranked slightly below some of the other mares.\u00a0 On sheer speed\talone, however, she cannot be discounted.\u00a0 Watch for her to settle in third\tor fourth through the backstretch, move up to second around the turn, and\tif all goes as planned jockey Y Renee will try to get the lead with about\ta sixteenth left. <\/p>\n
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PP8: The morning line favorite at 8-5 is Tricky N Clever<\/b>, owned\tby Ontheline<\/em>. Jockey B Tice has the call on this accomplished 5yo Woodman\tmare.\u00a0 Tricky’s career started late in her 3yo year, but since then she’s\tbeen rolling along picking up wins as if it were an everyday achievement.\u00a0 She\thas, in 19 starts, 4 stakes wins, three stakes board finishes, and a third\tin the GII Jump Town.\u00a0 Tricky likes to get out of the gate\tpretty slowly and will trail the field through the backstretch, but watch\tout for her closing kick; in her last race she made up about 10 lengths in\ther stretch run.\u00a0 Hopefully her trainer will get her moving beyond 10 furlongs\tsoon, she looks like she’ll love every yard she can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eight fillies go to the post in the second annual edition of the Kris My Hindend Memorial, a 9furlong stakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}