The forecast here in Massachusetts is taunting me with hopes for rain, but in sim land (and real land, too) the sun is shining, the turf is firm, and half a dozen soph more fillies are set to head postward in the seven-furlong $60,000 Music Chick Handicap<\/EM>, named for a Grade III-placed Red Ransom mare.<\/P> The morning line favorite as 5\/2 is Carbow Quest<\/STRONG>, the only stakes winner by Ransom O’War.\u00a0 She’s one of three offspring of a maiden Rainbow Quest mare: her big brother by Spinning World is stakes-placed and a Strive two-year-old has started just once.\u00a0 ‘Quest broke her maiden at first asking and the highlight of her juvenile career may have been a gritty effort in the Grade II More Glare Stakes<\/EM>; she finished third to Jaca<\/STRONG>, one of the top fillies in their class, beaten just a quarter-length.\u00a0 She’s struggled as a three-year-old, however, fading in three starts to finish no better than sixth, and seems potentially vulnerable here.<\/P> Three-time stakes winner Galloping Joy(Ire)<\/STRONG> (Galileo) hails from tflyer<\/EM> barn and is the third of three winners out of a Hennessy mare.\u00a0 She was a juvenile machine, never worse than third in nine starts, and looked on track for more of the same with a first and a third in her first two starts at three.\u00a0 She bobbled when dropped back into stakes company last out, however, but rates another chance: that was her first experience over a “good” course.\u00a0 She can stalk or set the pace and it’s tough to knock a filly who tries this hard.<\/P> Speaking of triers, theboz<\/EM>‘s Cherlyn BG<\/STRONG> (Cahill Road) has started fourteen times already, eleven times at two.\u00a0 She was a stakes winner as a juvenile going a flat mile and found herself in the Equinics<\/EM> earlier this year (finishing eighteenth at long odds).\u00a0 The Music Chick marks a cutback in distance for ‘Cherlyn, but she’s won two of three at seven furlongs thus far<\/P> Her co-third choice at 4\/1 is Restart(Ire)<\/STRONG> (Fasliyev) from emit<\/EM> stable, a multiple allowance winner out of a Nashwan mare.\u00a0 Restart broke her maiden at this distance but has spent much of her recent career going a mile or more.\u00a0 She’s finished no better than third in three starts this year, but the other two races were against graded company, the latter going a mile and a half against older mares.\u00a0 Her show is sandwiched in between and was a solid effort in an open allowance versus colts.\u00a0 Her best may still be a touch too slow, but she fits in better here than in her other recent tries.<\/P> Temporal Shift<\/STRONG> (Speightstown) will look to tuck in behind the leaders and outrun them turning for home.\u00a0 A homebred daughter of a Damascus mare, she’s a cog in the Super<\/EM> project machine and a four-time winner in her own right, with earnings in excess of $100,000.\u00a0 An allowance winner who couldn’t quite make the cut in stakes company at two, she was switched to the turf to begin her three-year-old campaign and rewarded her connections with a win and a place.\u00a0 Her numbers top out in the high 70s, but rider G. Garbaccio is having a better-than-average year.<\/P> And we’re back down on the far inside to finish out the field with Jazz Fest<\/STRONG> (Point Given), second winner from two out of a Dixieland Band mare.\u00a0 Jazz Fest scored her maiden win to close out her two-year-old season and has a place and a show from four starts at three.\u00a0 A front-runner, she has shown steady improvement in the numbers department, but this may be asking a bit more than she has to give at this stage of the game.\u00a0 Her stakes-placed sister by Shaadi likes the classic distances, which bodes well for this one’s future.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" $60,000 Music Chick Handicap<\/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-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","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=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}