{"id":2089,"date":"2006-04-06T01:38:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T01:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2089"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=2089","title":{"rendered":"Sunshaft Tops Ascot Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CALIFORNICATION Handicap
Stakes
A mile and three sixteenths
Firm Turf
$85,000
Fillies and mares, 3 years old\u00a0<\/P>


PP\u00a0 Horse ID\u00a0 Horse\u00a0 Owner\u00a0 Jockey\u00a0 Odds\u00a0
1 26766 JOHAN’S MATRIARCH<\/FONT><\/STRONG>\u00a0 irishman2\u00a0 R Williams\u00a0 3\/1\u00a0
2 98454 THREE TO EIGHT<\/FONT><\/STRONG>\u00a0 thomkal\u00a0 J Ackland\u00a0 5\/2\u00a0
3 50175 SUNSHAFT<\/FONT><\/STRONG>\u00a0 mrbigb\u00a0 P Harzheim\u00a0 4\/5\u00a0
4 87602 EVELIN<\/FONT><\/STRONG>\u00a0 paceman2\u00a0 M Day\u00a0 4\/1\u00a0 <\/FONT><\/P>

A short but very classy field of four will go postward in Ascot’s Saturday featured Californication ‘Cap<\/STRONG> fashioned for sophomore fillies at one mile and three-sixteenth on the grass course.\u00a0 Let’s meet the precocious young ladies from the hedge outward.<\/DIV>
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Breaking from the inside gate will be Irishman2’s promising Johannesburg filly, Johan’s Delight<\/STRONG>.\u00a0\u00a0A daughter of the multiple stakes placed Gone West matron, Matriarch, Johan’s Delight enters the Californication off a series of strong performances.\u00a0 Three starts back she won a nw2L race as much the best.\u00a0 Then came a sharp second in the Granny Cannon Bonanza stake followed by a powerful score in a nw3L allowance.\u00a0 Sharp barn has her on edge\u00a0for this test and any\u00a0further improvement puts her in the picture.<\/DIV>
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Next comes Thomkal’s multiple stakes winning Three To Eight<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 The flashy Congaree chestnut enters the fray off a monster\u00a0win over this track.\u00a0 The third of four foals from the Grade II winning Eight Shelley destroyed a fine field of fillies in The Cleveland Town in her last outing.\u00a0 Her time of 1:50.3 for the nine panels was worthy of a personal best speed rating of 89.\u00a0 Journeyman Jack Ackland gets the mount.\u00a0 Serious threat if the favorite falters.<\/DIV>
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It looks like Sunshaft<\/STRONG>‘s race to win or lose.\u00a0 The Mineshaft filly is far more accomplished than any of her three rivals.\u00a0 But since switching to turf, she’s developed a racing pattern that her trainer finds quite annoying.\u00a0 Two huge races followed by a dud.\u00a0 She won an allowance race and a listed stake followed by a flop.\u00a0 Then she won the Grade Three Panhandle Park Oaks easily followed by an absolutely eyepopping victory in Equinics’ Grade One Rodolfo Baez.\u00a0 But then she raced very poorly in this track’s Grade Three Intercontinental Mile.\u00a0 So which Sunshaft will show up this time?\u00a0 I don’t know and neither does her conditioner Mrbigb.\u00a0 Tune in Saturday to find out.<\/DIV>
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Rounding out our small but powerful field is Paceman2’s speedy Evelin<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 The drop dead gorgeous gray has already banked in excess of $330,000 in her brief four race career.\u00a0 Two back she made the huge leap from maidens to Grade One company look like a baby step as she pummeled a strong field in Ireland’s Train Yard Special.\u00a0 She followed that up with a strong second behind Lenny3’s streaking Run And Hide in an eleven furlong Grade Three stake.\u00a0 If the daughter of little used stallion Even The Score runs back to either of her previous two efforts, look out!\u00a0 <\/DIV>

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