<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>A pair of horses by Breeders Cup Classic winner Pleasantly Perfect will try to stop the powerful run of MICHAEL STRAHLMAN(KY)<\/B> in this turf route in <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>Arizona<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The usually sunny skies gave way to some showers from Hurricane Henriette, leaving the turf some uncharacteristic give, and it is rated \u201cGood\u201d for this test.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>Pleasantly Perfect is off to a nice beginning in the sim, with 19 stakes winners so far.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>While he is getting runners that like the classic distances, there is a tendency to preferring the dirt.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>AM I REALLY BAD(KY) <\/B>\u00a0<\/SPAN>is not one of the stakes winners, as he is still eligible for an entry level allowance.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The scratch bred (with damsire Elocutionist) comes in off a nice second in a 12-furlong allowance, but has not been on the board in a number of stakes tries.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This is also his turf debut, so he\u2019ll have to step it up on an unfamiliar surface to win here.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>M Carruthers takes him from the inside post for the bigeasy<\/I> stable.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>The CPU nominates ROLLIN’ A LOG(LA)<\/B>, who raced until recently for the trilobite<\/I> stable.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The son of Ford Every Stream (who is getting some attention as a sim sire) is better on turf, but has been running in sprints.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Unless he is much better at 10 furlongs, he is running for fourth place money.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Jockey M Langhorne might try hanging back and trying a late run, as the contenders here could battle up front.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>BOLD AND PERFECT(KY)<\/SPAN><\/B> is the more significant threat of the two Pleasantly Perfect horses in the race.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The tbird2<\/I> stable guided him to a nice win in the Northwest Racing Circuit\u2019s <\/SPAN>Belmont<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> equivalent from their Triple Crown series.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He also finished third in the Preakness equivalent May 19th in <\/SPAN>Nevada<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Those earned SP#s in the 90s, but were both on dirt.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His most recent out was a tiring ninth on the turf in a Smackdown III race, well behind winner FRICTION(KY)<\/B>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He does sport three turf wins in his resume.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He likes to be on or pressing the lead, so grizzled, veteran top jock <\/SPAN>N Gardner<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> will have to judge the pace with the big favorite to his outside.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>MICHAEL STRAHLMAN(KY)<\/SPAN><\/B> has the outside post of the four.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has brought the windycity<\/I> stable four stakes wins, all on turf, and big triple-digit SP#s, everything but a graded stakes victory.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He was up the track in the Grade 3 Phenom Stakes last winter, and ran the race of his life in the Grade 2 Upper California Derby two back but could only manage third (to monsters EXCLUSIVE HABITAT(ENG)<\/B> and another Pleasantly Perfect product, PERFECT SON(KY)<\/B>).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has tracking speed and comes in off a front-running allowance victory two weeks ago in <\/SPAN>British Columbia<\/SPAN><\/st1:place><\/st1:State>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The oddsmakers have him at 1\/5 with stellar apprentice jock <\/SPAN>W Kewmwa<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> aboard, and it\u2019s hard to argue with their assessment.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It is his race to lose.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Short field of sophomores at turf classic 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