<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>Trainer sgb<\/I> hopes <\/SPAN>N Ritcher<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> can live up to his name aboard IRON AVATAR(IRE)<\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The filly capped off her 3-year-old year with a few 103 speed figures in stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>While she has not won in six months, the Perfect Soul\/Gone West chestnut has a solid chance at 7-1 despite being one of many closers in this race.<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>The BIG UGLY<\/B> roan comes in off an allowance win for jrogue<\/I>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 5-year-old daughter of Summer Squall has back class with a recent stakes win and Grade 1 placing.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>We\u2019ll see how low-percentage jock <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>S Frye<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> handles the pace scenario with this deep closer: she\u2019s beaten only one horse to the second call in her last five races combined.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>ANGEL GIRL<\/SPAN><\/B> is the lone 6-year-old and a Geri\/Mountain Cat product.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The mizuno<\/I> mare has not been out of the trifecta in her last 12 (!) races, so bettors take note.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This consistent runner has some tactical speed for jockey B Gates to use.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has at least a chance to beat the favorite.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Hear hear for the older girls.<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>ADIOS AMIGO, <\/SPAN><\/B>in the devil01<\/I> colors, bounced back from a disappointing Milky Way Stakes-G2 run with a win in the VELVET Special Stakes last time out.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That closing style served the El Corredor\/Lyphard mare well in the Grade 1 Princess Di Cap earlier this year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Jockey N Ambrose is savvy enough to help with the riding strategy, and 6-1 is a juicy enough price for the accomplished 5-year-old.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>DEAD SOLID PERFECT(IRE), <\/SPAN><\/B>a High Chaparral daughter of the Kris S. mare JADED LOVER<\/B>, looks to give snowchief<\/I> the graded stakes win that eluded her in the Grade 1 Princess Di Cap back in week 2965.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>While she was a fine second in that race to ADIOS AMIGO<\/B>, she has had three off-the-board placings since then and must recapture her form.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She likes to run last early, and with so many other deep closers in this race, journeyman jock J Hoffman must try to make that strategy work in challenging conditions.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>DESTINED<\/SPAN><\/B> is a newly-minted 4-year-old with the powerful Rahy\/Danzig bloodlines in her corner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Super24<\/I> is finally enjoying this filly\u2019s early promise \u2013 a stakes win as a 2-year-old \u2013 now that she has three fine races in a row.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She followed two allowance wins with a third to MISWAKI\u2019S LAST in the NUN SADDLE(IRE) Challenge last out.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>N Dodds<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> is up for this graded stakes effort.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>For the win, she does look like a 20-1 longshot, but a trifecta finish is not out of the question.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>DEPUTY HUNTER<\/SPAN><\/B>: Wow! What a 2006.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This Deputy Minister\/A.P. Indy mare dominated last year, with 9 wins out of 14 races, including three graded stakes tallies.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The \u00a0<\/SPAN>barn25dog<\/I> mare is versatile enough to lay back or attend the pace, and that flexibility with a likely slow pace makes her hard to beat.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Top jock P Haynes is likely to get the best from this one.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A deserving favorite.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>BLUE WHITE<\/SPAN><\/B> is a 4-year-old <\/SPAN>Fort<\/SPAN><\/st1:PlaceType> <\/SPAN>Wood<\/SPAN><\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> filly who has just come into her own in her last two races, both sharp allowance wins on the front end.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She looks to be the lone front runner, so safbred<\/I> and jockey P Vessels may try to steal this one.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The pace scenario certainly seems to mark her an overlay at 19-1.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>I like <\/SPAN>Fort<\/SPAN><\/st1:PlaceType> <\/SPAN>Wood<\/SPAN><\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> as a sire, so I\u2019ll be rooting for her.<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight line up for New Hampshire’s first 2007 graded stakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"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-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}