THE KONG’S IMAGES STAKES\u00a0\u00a0 14 FURLONG F&M TURF\u00a0\u00a0 $55,000<\/STRONG><\/P> The feature race today will take just over 3 minutes to decide.\u00a0 Six four year old Filly’s\u00a0and one five year old Mare\u00a0will battle it out over 1 3\/4 miles in the KONG’S IMAGES Stakes<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 The track is listed as firm and should be a good one.\u00a0 Let’s take a look at the\u00a0seven who go to post.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> 1)\u00a0 SALFLY’S SPUR (AUS)\u00a0 9\/5<\/STRONG><\/P> The favorite\u00a0has drawn the inside post\u00a0for Conditioner rose<\/EM>.\u00a0\u00a0This 4yo\u00a0daughter of Flying Spur (AUS) <\/STRONG>brings in a stellar record of 9 wins from 19 starts including\u00a017 of 19 in the money.\u00a0 Even more immpressive is the fact she hasn’t been off the board in her last 15 starts all in stakes company.\u00a0 The odd’s maker\u00a0has installed her and rightfully so as the favorite today.\u00a0 Her last race\u00a04\u00a0weeks ago she was not able to wrestle the lead away in the early going before fading late for the show.\u00a0 There is enough early speed in the race were that might be the case again today, however she is 2 for 2 at this distance both\u00a0in stakes company and if she is patient she should reward the Chalk players and stay undefeated at this distance.\u00a0 S.Cadet gets the leg up on this fine looking filly and should be in the driver’s seat.\u00a0<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> 2) BARB’S OWN REALITY (IRE)\u00a0 6\/1<\/STRONG><\/P> This 4yo daughter of High Chaparral (IRE)\u00a0<\/STRONG>goes postward in search of her first Stakes tally in\u00a0this her 5th attempt.\u00a0 The best she\u00a0has been able to manage was a\u00a0second place showing midway through last year.\u00a0 heffbarn <\/EM>bring’s her in today off a third place finish in conditioned allowance company.\u00a0 She has only been longer\u00a0than today’s distance one time in her 15 race career when she faded in the later stages for third in a small four horse field.\u00a0 She does have a win with allowance company running a mile and a half, but will need a better run than that to take it all this afternoon.\u00a0 She get’s the services of B.Cooper fresh off breaking his draught in last weeks feature were he notched just his second score of the year.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> 3)\u00a0 EMPIRE STORM\u00a0 9\/2<\/STRONG><\/P> Makes her Stakes\u00a0debut this afternoon after winning\u00a0her last two races both at this distance with allowance types.\u00a0 waremblem2 <\/EM>seems to have found a nice spot to get her feet wet and if she closes like she has in her last two, this\u00a04 yo daughter of Empire Maker <\/STRONG>could get the whole job done.\u00a0\u00a0If she can improve at all then the step up in class should pose no problem at all.\u00a0 Jockey T. Kallor gets the call today\u00a0and will looking to push the turbo botton in the last 3 furlongs of this race.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> 4)\u00a0 COLDWINDBLOWS\u00a0 7\/2<\/STRONG><\/P> The morning line\u00a0second choice will break from the middle\u00a0post and like the horse just inside of her comes in off an impressive score at this distance in her last.\u00a0 She to is trying Stakes company for the first time and trainer layoff <\/EM>is hoping to keep her undeafeated in her 4yo\u00a0season.\u00a0Her Sp’s give her a legitimate chance today and it’s just a matter of how the 4yo filly by Souvenir Copy <\/STRONG>handles the step up in class.\u00a0 Top\u00a0jockey C.Orza being aboard will help make that step up all the easier.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> 5)\u00a0 POKER STORM\u00a0 5\/1<\/STRONG><\/P> This 4yo Wheelaway <\/STRONG>filly has a tendency of opening up huge leads on the front end and last out carried it the entire way in route to a 2 + length victory with NW2 in nine months. She is still in search of her first stakes victory\u00a0for trainer migman11 <\/EM>who must of thought they had scored one in her first start of the year, a two mile marathon in which she\u00a0had her nose in front\u00a0the whole way before losing a long photo.\u00a0 Her Sp’s say she belongs and\u00a0if P.Nabinger\u00a0can hold her together in the late stages she certainly rates a fair chance.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> 6)\u00a0 DREAM TICKET\u00a0 10\/1<\/STRONG><\/P> The longhot in todays field in making only her 5th career start, all of which have come in this her 4yo season.\u00a0 She did try stakes company last time out and was dismissed at 37\/1 in her first start for new connections of silks2912 <\/EM>off a $5000 claim in a winning effort in her previous start.\u00a0 She finished\u00a0middle of the pack in her\u00a0stakes debut and will have to improve off that effort to\u00a0make a run at the tote board\u00a0here.\u00a0 This 4yo Daughter\u00a0of Mt.Livermore <\/STRONG>gets a capable jockey in D.Nabinger who will have a lot of work to do today.\u00a0<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> 7)\u00a0 SUSIE Q\u00a0 8\/1<\/STRONG><\/P> The veteran of the bunch enters the race with a very respectable 8 wins in 27 starts for trainer zeco5 <\/EM>who claimed her midway through last year and did manage a Stakes win at this distance last season.\u00a0 The SP\u00a0of 76 in that winning effort will not be\u00a0enough to get the job done today for the 5yo daugter of Miesque’s Son.\u00a0 <\/STRONG>None of her 4 starts since that Stakes win have been competitive and she looks up against it again today.\u00a0 Would have to have a huge run for Jockey Z.Ayya who seems to be the best thing to like about this duo to rate any chance.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> Good luck to everyone’s runner,s and look for the race re-cap later this weekend….\u00a0\u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SALFLY’S SPUR (AUS) Headlines 14 Furlong Turf Feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"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-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}