Never let it be said that Super Stables has no sense of humor.\u00a0 They’ll send out the favorite in Saturday’s feature race at Finland, a 6-furlong main track event for sophomore fillies.\u00a0 The race is a Grade 3, called the KYJelly Birthday Tribute.\u00a0 Their horse is named Fetish<\/STRONG>.<\/P> She’s a daughter of Cryptoclearance, out of the Grade 3-winning Danzig mare Midnite Kat<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 Carefully handled all along, she worked through several allowance conditions and won a listed stakes before testing the graded waters in the Pebbles Flintstone and the Fence Fryer.\u00a0 Shuffled a little farther back than usual, she came on well both times but had to settle for minor checks.\u00a0 The slick brown filly has been on the muscle in her workouts and last few races, running well in listed stakes with 100+ speed ratings, and looks poised to find a place on the graded podium this time out.\u00a0 M. Kiprusoff rides and has been having a superlative year.<\/P> It takes a big name to stand out in a race crowded with trainers who win at good clips.\u00a0 Super Stables can manage it with their two entries and so can Rafa Stables–riding high this year on the strength of their Bluegrass Derby winner, among others–who also bring a pair.\u00a0 Their first representative is Tubia<\/STRONG>, a Pulpit filly out of a winning Machiavellian mare, herself daughter of a Grade 2-placed mare and half to a Grade 3-placed one.\u00a0 Tubia began her caeer on the turf, but came afire with a surface switch and rattled off a serious of strong runs in stakes company.\u00a0 The highlight of her career thus far was a good second in the A Fool And His Money Soon Part.\u00a0 That catapaulted her into Bluegrass Oaks contention; she finished eleventh, and then fifth in the Chestnut.\u00a0 She notched her first 100+ number in listed company last out and is sure to be out in front early on, but her history of being run down last is a touch worrisome.<\/P> She runs uncoupled in the betting with stablemate Solita<\/STRONG>, by Speightstown out of a winning Hennessy mare.\u00a0 She was a stakes winner on the dirt at two, but spend her 3yo season gunning for the 1000 Guineas on the turf.\u00a0 She settled for twelfth on the big day, but did run a fast-closing second in the Guineas Trial Part II leading up to that race.\u00a0 Her connections moved her back to the dirt for two good stakes seconds, including on with a 100, and a fourth at a flat mile.\u00a0 That seems slightly longer than she really wants to go, but this race isn’t, and her late kick makes her a major threat.<\/P> The birthday barn sends out Unbridled Zip<\/STRONG> as their representative, and hopes for a little birthday gift in the form of a win.\u00a0 The best daughter of City Zip, she’s out of a winning daughter of Unbridled.\u00a0 Like Tubia, she’s a front-runner, and came out of the box running hard, with four stakes wins to her credit before her official third birthday.\u00a0 She won the Finland Sprint at three and was third in the Honeymoon Special.\u00a0 She’s never cracked the three-digit barrier, but she’s been flirting with it recently, and is unlikely to be bothered if she has some company up front.<\/P> The bright colors of capable Taboo Stables will be carried by Taboo Chant<\/STRONG>, a High Yield filly out of winning War Chant daughter Jungle Chant<\/STRONG> whose first foal was also a stakes winner.\u00a0 She’s demonstrated her durability by running seventeen races already in her young life.\u00a0 The first name came on the turf, where she was a stakes winner.\u00a0 Switched to the dirt in the last race of her juvenile campaign, Taboo Chant ran out of her skin and never looked back.\u00a0 She’s shown steady improvement since then and very rarely runs a bad race, and boasts both tactical speed and a good finish: a dangerous combo.<\/P> Hot young stallion Fusaichi Pegasus is represented by An Open Heaven<\/STRONG>, daughter of an undistinguished Seattle Slew mare.\u00a0 ‘Heaven, though, distinguished herself early, winning her first two races in good style.\u00a0 She went on a long losing streak, though, but has been rounding back into form and boasts two seconds and a win from her last three races, with a 102 speed rating last out.\u00a0 The bad news is that those races came against conditioned allowance horses, and so it’s hard to know how to match them up against what she’ll face in the KYJelly.\u00a0 T. Ahonen, alas, does not inspire much confidence.<\/P> None Too Shabby has shown flashes of living up to that name, and when she’s good, she’s good.\u00a0 The Charismatic filly, from an Alydar mare, was a stakes winner at two and picked up a Grade 3 placing last out with an even race at this distance.\u00a0 She’s posted that same 97 number at 9 furlongs, and her record has been a bit uneven this year, as she’s tried top horses in the Chestnut and Fantasia.\u00a0 It’s worth noting that the Dynamite, last time out, was her first sprint race since last September, and she’s never failed to pick up a check at these distances.<\/P> Durable sire Pleasantly Perfect is off to a swell start at stuf, and his daughter in the KYJelly is Pleasant Lass<\/STRONG>, out of a stakes-placed Night Shift mare.\u00a0 She started racing late in her two-year-old season but has come on strong in her last few races, running first, twice second, and third in allowance and stakes company.\u00a0 She does some of her best work on the mud, which won’t help her here, but the tactical speed will, and likely jockey A. Su.<\/P> Talk about dialing back in distance.\u00a0 May Luck Bless You<\/STRONG> (Mining x Blushing John mare) hasn’t seen a sprint race since her two-year-old season (she was twice stakes-placed then).\u00a0 Her last two races came at 10 and 11 furlongs (she finished third and then commandingly first).\u00a0 The turnback is a little baffling; she’s been very successful in the longer events, and the competition there is generally not as strong.\u00a0 She was a good sprinter at two, though, and if you like her on sheer class 14\/1 seems fair.<\/P> Pedigrees don’t come a whole lot classier than Growling<\/STRONG>‘s; the second Super Stables filly in the race is a daughter of Kingmambo, from Grade 1-placed Forestry daughter Growl<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 The mare did her best work at three, but Growling’s been having a checkered year.\u00a0 She found the winner’s circle for the first time in 2007 last out, versus non-winner of one in three months allowance company.\u00a0 She was a stakes winner at two and has a nice kick when she feels like it. The last horse in the field is Hanselburgh<\/STRONG>, of Deelynette Stables, by Johannesburg out of a stakes-placed Hansel mare.\u00a0 The morning line has her at 34\/1 and that seems not unfair given that she’s just a first-condition allowance winner with speed numbers that have yet to break 90.\u00a0 I wouldn’t, mind you, kick her out of my barn.\u00a0 But this seems a tall order.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grade 3 KYJelly Birthday Tribute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"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-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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