The $65,000 PRINCESS QUEST Challenge Stakes is Saturday\u2019s featured race at Vermont.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The race is open to older fillies and mares and will be contested at a distance of 1 3\/16 miles over the turf course.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The runners, in order of their starting gate with early betting odds, are:<\/P> \u00a0 DEAD SOLID PERFECT <\/B>(26 6-7-2\u00a0 <\/SPAN>$436,640) [7\/2] This 5-year-old mare races for the snowchief<\/I> stable.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her best outing this year is a 3rd<\/SUP> in the Exploding Outhouse Stakes (GIII), but she hasn\u2019t recorded a win since June of last year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Sired by HIGH CHAPARRAL, this mare has a lifetime best SP of 105 over the turf at this distance.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A late closer, in five of her six lifetime victories she has rallied from more than 10 lengths back.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Jockey Langhorne (10%) gets the riding assignment.<\/P> \u00a0 ENOUGH MON <\/B>(37 5-8-6\u00a0 <\/SPAN>$141,634) [5\/1] is the 5-year-old daughter of MARIA\u2019S MON, bred and successfully campaigned by itsalock<\/I>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is winless this year in three starts, all at the stakes level, so is looking to rebound here after a 4th<\/SUP> place run last time out.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has a lifetime best SP 96 at the race distance and will be ridden by Stearns (16%).\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0 SHY BUDA <\/B>(16 4-1-1 $74,234) [10\/1] is the least experienced of this group with only 16 lifetime starts.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Sired by WOODMAN, the 4-year-old\u2019s dam (SHY VILLA) was a multiple graded stakes winner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is making her first attempt at the stakes level for the joanneb <\/I>stable after recording a win two outings back in a $52,300 allowance race in Florida.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Jockey Stinson (18%) will most likely try to have her on the lead or close to it from the start, as she prefers to run upfront.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P> \u00a0 HOT SAUCE DEMOSS <\/B>(26 4-5-4\u00a0 <\/SPAN>$114,372) [5\/1] After being claimed in February for $2,000, this 4-year-old has responded wonderfully for new owner ets<\/I> with three strong outings, highlighted by a 2nd<\/SUP> place finish in the LEMON LIME Stakes two races ago.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Recording her three best lifetime SP\u2019s last three times out, she looks to be in top form and could be in the mix here with Jockey Wolff (11%).<\/P> \u00a0 ULTEGRA <\/B>(32 8-12-1\u00a0 <\/SPAN>$392,345) [2\/1] The pre-race favorite has enjoyed a very successful campaign so far this year, with two wins and a second in five outings at the stakes level, including a win last time out in the PATH TO WAR STAKES.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A half sister to #3 SHY BUDA, she is one of only two in this field with a prior stakes win.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Owner maruxa <\/I>has chosen jockey Dudderar (6%) for this outing.<\/I>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>As shown by her wire-to-wire victory last time out, expect her to be upfront and one of the pacesetters from the start.<\/P> \u00a0 JUST LIKE FRANK <\/B>(39 5-5-7\u00a0 <\/SPAN>$44,124) [10\/1], After breaking her maiden in her 20th<\/SUP> outing, she now makes her first start ever in stakes company following her one and only win earlier this year at the allowance level.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This mare is sired by the seldom seen LIKE A SOLDIER, who has produced only 5 other runners. \u00a0<\/SPAN>Owner bbrs2<\/I> calls on the services of jockey Kratch, who has yet to ride a winner this year.<\/P> \u00a0 CARSFLY SEATTLE <\/B>(37 6-3-6\u00a0 <\/SPAN>$167,126) [17\/1] This nicely bred (CARSON CITY x SEATTLE SLEW x HIS MAJESTY) <\/SPAN>5-year-old mare struggled her last time out, finishing 7th<\/SUP> in an allowance with an SP of only 75.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Owned and bred by astfly<\/I> and ridden by Secret (6%), she looks to rebound this time in tougher company.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has a best lifetime finish of 3rd<\/SUP> in 13 previous stakes tries and has not recorded an SP over 88 in more than a year and a half. <\/P> \u00a0 GETTIN\u2019 IT <\/B>(24 7-3-5\u00a0 <\/SPAN>$475,930) [6\/1] is one of three granddaughters of SEATTLE SLEW in this field (JUST LIKE FRANK and CARSFLY SEATTLE), which also includes one great granddaughter (HOT SAUCE DEMOSS).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This mare has spent most of her career at the stakes level, including three graded stakes wins for owner peter12.<\/I>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Along with a wealth of experience and success at this level, she gets the added benefit of having the services of the track\u2019s leading jockey Gravina (14%), who has ridden the feature winner each of the last two weeks.<\/P> \u00a0 While I would like to rest on my laurels after luckily picking the winner in last week\u2019s feature, I\u2019ll risk embarrassment again this week:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Expect ULTEGRA and GETTING\u2019 IT to set the early pace, with many others stalking from close behind.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The benefit of all this early speed will be DEAD SOLID PERFECT, coming from well back for the win, followed by ULTEGRA and GETTIN\u2019 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