Big crowds are expected to turn out for Swift Kick<\/STRONG> and the Grade III Last Jump Handicap<\/EM>, but the smart money will get to the track early, and not just for good seats.\u00a0 The day will include several looks at future superstars in the two-year-old maiden ranks and also the listed $75,000 Quick Seattle Challenge for three-year-olds going seven furlongs on the firm turf course.<\/P> Stakes winner Quick Seattle<\/STRONG> was a Bid Quick son out of a Seattle Slew mare.\u00a0 A hard-knocking sort, he raced from two to seven, making for four different barns.\u00a0 He won nine times and hit the board twenty-five, earning nearly $350,000, and notched stakes wins at three and four.<\/P> Longshot Buba<\/STRONG> (Cee’s Tizzy) and First Refusal(Ire)<\/STRONG> (Refuse to Bend) share the morning line favorite honors in the four-horse field.<\/P> Longshot Buba is the flagship horse for the iansplugs<\/STRONG><\/EM> barn, a winner of better than $150,000.\u00a0 His only bad race came in his debut, where he finished ninth over the main track.\u00a0 He won five of his next six starts and only a headbob defeat in the listed Deputy’s Hippos Memorial<\/EM> interrupted his winning streak.\u00a0 He’s started once this year, winning the Viking Royalty Memorial<\/EM>, an event packed with legitimate stakes horses.\u00a0 The capable N. Lawton takes the reins.<\/P> First Refusal is the first son of a Kris S. mare and he’s far from the only interesting sophomore that theatrical<\/STRONG><\/EM> has in the barn.\u00a0 A three-time winner of over $200,000, ‘Refusal won at first asking at two an was a stakes winner in his third start.\u00a0 He struggled a bit in top company towards the end of his campaign and at the start of his three-year-old season, but did win a CPU-restricted allowance in good style last out.\u00a0 His stalking style should suit him well in this short field packed with speedsters, but R. Foster has been having some trouble this year.<\/P> Slight second choice Making A Statement<\/STRONG> (Gulch) will likely be keeping ‘Buba company on the front end.\u00a0 The second winner and second stakes-placed foal of three starters from a stakes-winning Summer Squall mare, the colt needed six tries to break his maiden, but a switch to the turf did the trick and he held his lead all the way to the win.\u00a0 He followed that up with another win to close his juvenile campaign, but has had a tougher time keeping his nose in front in two starts at three (finishing third and fifth, respectively).\u00a0 He does keep solid company and is ultraconsistent, numberwise.<\/P> Huddie<\/STRONG> (Deputy Warlock) will break from along the rail and contribute to the early pace.\u00a0 The son of a hard-knocking earner of $300,000, Huddie has hit the board in three of five starts to date, including one against older horses.\u00a0 He broke his maiden last out when he shook loose on the lead an makes his first start at the sprint distances on Saturday.\u00a0 Can’t blame huddie70<\/STRONG><\/EM> for taking a shot at this short field.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" $75,000 Quick Seattle Challenge (New York)<\/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-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}