Greetings from Jamaica\u00a0where this weeks feature race is a 10f dirt route for 3 year old fillies. The “T. C. MOON” Special Stakes carries a purse of $45,000 and is named in honor of 10 year old mare T.C. Moon.\u00a0 T.C. Moon earned $123,262 from 7 wins including\u00a0The “DR ADAGIO” Stakes. Last years race was won by Sydonia in wire to wire fashion with a time of 2:02 1\/5. This years edition brings a field or four with one clear favorite and the other three fillies rated at 3\/1.<\/P>
Breaking from the rail is the prohibitive favorite Hancock Pond<\/STRONG> (4\/5). This amazingly consistent bay filly from\u00a0 salamander<\/EM> stables has lifetime earnings of $702,840. By Gone West and out of a mare by Danzig\u00a0she has a record of 16-3-5-4 and is ranked #13 over classic dirt. She last raced 4 weeks ago when she finished 3rd in an 8.5f allowance with a 102 speed figure. She also has a recent victory in the 10f\u00a0 G1 “HUMMINGBIRD” Stakes. Top Jock J. Selden gets the mount and is sure to improve on\u00a0 last years 3rd place finish.\u00a0Hancock Pond<\/STRONG> likes to come from the back and should be flying down the stretch.<\/P> In the 2 spot is the lightly raced entry from paydirt21<\/EM> Private Missile<\/STRONG> (3\/1). By Empire Maker, this filly is also out of a Danzig broodmare. Private Missile<\/STRONG> has a record of 4-1-2-1 and earnings of $22,290. She is not yet ranked and comes into this race with only 2 weeks rest\u00a0after breaking her maiden in a 8.5f MSW with a 95 speed index. She has never gone 10f and only time will tell if she can carry her front running style over the added distance. In the irons will be D. Caldwell with a 38% ITM rating.<\/P> From post position 3 comes Arrivals<\/STRONG> (3\/1).\u00a0\u00a0This chestnut filly has a record of 9-2-2-0 and earnings of $39,900 for trainer graz328<\/EM>. Arrivals is sired by A.P. Indy and out of the Arazi broodmare Arrival Again.\u00a0Arrivals<\/STRONG> won her last start, a 9f allowance , with a speed figure of 102 and gets the services of jockey M. Clouse on Saturday. This filly is not yet ranked but appears to be the most flexible in her rating which could be a plus in such an evenly matched field.<\/P> On the outside will be the deep lunged chestnut filly Cat Town<\/STRONG> (3\/1). This entry from jollymon<\/EM> has 5 Non M\/C\/O\/S\u00a0 wins\u00a0 and is ranked #148. Her record stands at 17-6-1-2 with earnings of $211,571. Cat Town<\/STRONG> like Arrival is by leading sire A.P. Indy. Her dam is by Cat Thief. She finished 3rd in her last effort, a 12f allowance only 2 weeks ago. Look for jockey E. Capasso to be far off\u00a0 the pace early.<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> \u00a0\u00a0<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remainder of Field Evenly Matched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}