New York \u2013 the Getaway Stakes (GP1)<\/U><\/B> for two-year-old fillies over seven furlongs carried a purse of $400,000 and drew a field of promising fillies all striving to taste Group One glory for the first time. The track was in perfect condition, the weather was sunny and fine and a large crowd gathered for some spectacular racing. The Getaway was only one of several high quality races on the program and the race proved to be one of the many highlights on a super day of horse racing.<\/P>
The winner Katerineogaragon<\/B> \u2013 (High Yield-Kingmambo-Ferdinand) claimed her second win of her career from six starts and in the process took the number one ranking in the two-year-old dirt sprint category. Sitting back just worst than mid-field for the duration of the trip she finished with a powerful finish to just grab race favourite Jacobite Hot Sauce<\/B> in the shadows of the post. A head separated the first two on the line with both recording an identical speed rating of 89. A quarter a length further back was Barb\u2019s Slow Cooker<\/B> who stormed home from the back of the field to take third just ahead of Cybertown<\/B> who was also flying at the finish. The impressively bred Cybertown<\/B> ran a much improved race and ran a career best speed rating of 86 in finishing fourth.<\/P> Exile in Guyville<\/B> (5th<\/SUP>) made ground in the concluding stages but could not much the finishing efforts of the top four. Session\u2019s Thief<\/B> (6th<\/SUP>) who was backed into second favourite found the outside post too big of a challenge to overcome and started to lose ground as she hit the straight. Aly\u2019s Nuggets<\/B> (7th<\/SUP>) and Redoute\u2019s Niner<\/B> (AUS)<\/B> (8th<\/SUP>) were even throughout and both started to lost contact towards the end. Ode to Greatness<\/B> (IRE)<\/B> (9th<\/SUP>), Storm Saar<\/B> (10th<\/SUP>) and Dozzing Music<\/B> (11th<\/SUP>) all raced towards the lead on jumping and struggled to keep in touch as the sweepers powered over the top of them as they entered the straight. Crystal Seer <\/B>(12th<\/SUP>), which came into the race undefeated, disappointed connections as she laboured at the rear of the field for the duration and could not respond when the pressure was applied. Top of the Heap<\/B> (13th<\/SUP>), also well back, struggled to stay in contact and finished ten and half lengths of the winner. What What OK<\/B> (14th<\/SUP>) was handy in the early stages but collapsed to finish last.<\/P> The Getaway Stakes has become a major lead-up to the Breeders Bowl Juvenile Fillies over the years. Many of these fillies were stepping up to seven furlongs for the first time and the race resulted in sorting out the real contenders for the eight and half furlongs of the Breeders Bowl and the pretenders. The winner, Katerineofaragon<\/B>, was very impressive and has been improving as her distances increase and looks an ideal type for the Breeders Bowl. \u00a0<\/SPAN>Jacobite Hot Sauce, Barb\u2019s Slow Cooker, Cybertown<\/B> and Exile in Guyville<\/B> lost no admirers and all indicated that that the extra distance would suit them. Sisson\u2019s Thief<\/B> can not be ruled out completely and if given a better post position must be considered a threat. Regardless, the Getaway Stakes has become a much sorted race title for the two-year fillies and would be a welcome addition to any horse\u2019s resume. While the 2001 winner Seekin Gal<\/B> remains the only horse to have completed the double the challenge now lays ahead for Katerineofaragon.<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Getaway answering some of the Breeders Bowl questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","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\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}