In\u00a0a race being run in the memory of million dollar earning mare, GORDIE’S PRINTS, a small, and very even field of\u00a0seven 4yo+ mares gathered in what turned out to be a near blanket finish.<\/P>
It was STAR STRYKE<\/STRONG> and\u00a0BENNY BEING BENNY<\/STRONG> that broke away with the early lead, and waged their own private war around the first bend.<\/P> BLACK AVENUE<\/STRONG> sat back behind them and waited for a run, while the rest of the field saved their energy for the stretch.<\/P> The first to make a move along the inside rail were, SHANTYTOWN<\/STRONG>, and STRIKE THE BIRDIE<\/STRONG>, the latter of which swept by the early leaders close to home and hit the line going away to win by 3\/4 of a length.<\/P> The $80,000 prize pool was shared with outsider STAR STRYKE<\/STRONG> who battled on gamely for second, in a photo ahead of SHANTYTOWN<\/STRONG>.<\/P> The rest of the field was close behind that trio, with TICKLE PICKLE<\/STRONG>,\u00a0and K’S FINNANCIER<\/STRONG> finishing strongly, but not getting close enough to offer any real threat.\u00a0 The whole field was separated by just one and a half lengths.\u00a0 <\/P> The winner, a 5yo ROCK SLIDE mare for the sesho17 <\/EM>stable, is now the 16th ranked mare sprinter on dirt.\u00a0 Another win in a similar race next time out will see her top the half million dollar mark in prizemoney.<\/P> The morning line favourite, K’S FINNANCIER<\/STRONG>,\u00a0showed that she is better\u00a0over an extra furlong or two, as she ran out of room in chasing down the talented winner, to finish at the rear of the field.<\/P> Post<\/SPAN><\/B> Horse<\/SPAN><\/B> Win<\/SPAN><\/B> Place<\/SPAN><\/B> Show<\/SPAN><\/B> 1 <\/SPAN><\/B> STRIKE THE BIRDIE<\/SPAN><\/B> $8.50 $3.90 $3.00 4 <\/SPAN><\/B> STAR STRYKE<\/SPAN><\/B> \u00a0 $9.40 $5.20 2 <\/SPAN><\/B> SHANTYTOWN<\/SPAN><\/B> \u00a0 \u00a0 $3.90 \u00a0<\/P><\/STRONG> Exacta:\u00a0\u00a0<\/STRONG> \u00a0<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> \u00a0<\/P> $83.60 Trifecta:\u00a0\u00a0<\/STRONG> $538.90 STRIKE THE BIRDIE strikes down STAR STRYKE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"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-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Time of race: 1:16
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