For the second week in a row, the Vermont feature was won by the betting favorite. 5-year-old ULTEGRA<\/B> easily won today\u2019s $65,000 PRINCESS QUEST Challenge Stakes on the Vermont turf over a mile and 3\/16, although not without some controversy, paying $6.00, $2.90 and $2.10 for owner maruxa<\/I>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Winning rider H Dudderar broke a two-week feature-winning streak for S Gravina.<\/P> \u00a0 The early pace was set by HOT SAUCE DEMOSS<\/B>, who broke cleanly and led until the far corner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The leader was stalked for the first half of the race by ENOUGH MON<\/B> and SHY BUDA<\/B>, who both later faded to finish sixth and seventh.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>ULTEGRA <\/B>raced along quietly from the start, saving energy in fourth.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Consistent with her past efforts, this writer\u2019s pick DEAD SOLID PERFECT<\/B> fell back early and trailed by as many as nine lengths by the time they hit the backstretch.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>CARSFLY SEATTLE<\/B> was never a factor and finished eighth. <\/P> \u00a0 True to her form, DEAD SOLID PERFECT <\/B>began to make her move at the end of the backstretch.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Seeing her coming, ULTEGRA<\/B> went as well and appeared to block her in the far turn while moving around ENOUGH MON<\/B>, causing DEAD SOLID PERFECT <\/B>to check up and lose ground.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>ULTREGA <\/B>continued advancing, was three clear of the field coming out of the turn and held on gamely for the win.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>DEAD SOLID PERFECT <\/B>recovered with unhappy jockey B Langhorne and moved up to second down the stretch, but wasn\u2019t able to seriously challenge the winner.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>GETTIN\u2019 IT<\/B>, after trailing the field early, made a late charge to get up for third, but was no threat to the top two.<\/P> \u00a0 ULTEGRA\u2019s<\/B> winning time of 1:55 earned her a SP of 104.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The 5-year-old daughter of WOODMAN earned her second consecutive stakes win and third in her last four outings, bringing her lifetime earnings to $431,345.<\/P> \u00a0 Next week\u2019s feature at Vermont will again showcase the older females, this time going 9 furlongs on the dirt in the $60,000 WEST INTO DANCER Challenge.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ULTEGRA Wins Again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"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-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}