The Renee You Bonanza features a short field of five fillies all seeking to\tearn that first marathon stakes win.\u00a0 The race is named for a mid-level\tmare who, oddly enough, never did win a stakes, and didn’t exactly love running so far. <\/p>\n
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The morning line favorite, Goldinsky<\/strong>, is a chestnut filly\tby Stravinsky out of a Strike the Gold mare.\u00a0 She’s had success on both\tsurfaces, and is coming off two stellar performances.\u00a0 Two starts back\tshe won the mile Secret\tThe Secret Special<\/em> by 3 lengths to earn a lifetime-high 103SP.\u00a0 Her\tnext race saw her take on older mares in the Urban You Stakes at a mile where\tshe finished second by a shortening 2 3\/4 lengths for a 98SP. This choice\tof race by trainer Qcd<\/em> is unexpected, to say the least.\u00a0 This filly has\tnever gone over 9.5 furlongs (and that was on dirt), so the extra-half mile\tis a definite question.\u00a0 Her pedigree says she can probably handle it,\tso her odds are probably lower than they ought to be.\u00a0 Goldie is a closer,\tso if she gets a hot pace and can relax well she might be able to pull off\ta major coup here.\u00a0 Top jockey F Gossett will ride.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The second betting choice, Kgbeast(IRE)<\/strong> is the horse to beat.\u00a0 She’s\twell-experienced at this distance, and trainer Devil01<\/em> found a perfect spot\tfor this Galileo filly to show her stuff.\u00a0 The Beast made her debut as\ta 2-year-old in a now-infamous owner-restricted race where she beat a field\tof blue-blooded horses going 7 furlongs on turf.\u00a0 Since then she’s struggled\ta bit, although seems to have found her niche in in turf marathons.\u00a0 Earlier\tthis year she put in two excellent performances to win a pair of turf allowances\tat 10 and 12 furlongs.\u00a0 In her last two races the big-boned filly has faced\tgraded and listed stakes company and acquited herself well with third and\tfourth-place finishes.\u00a0 Here the Beast faces horses she should have no\ttrouble beating.\u00a0 This filly prefers to be somewhat close to the pace,\tbut may be seen on the front-end as soon as the three-quarter pole of there’s\tno other speed to be found.\u00a0 Well-respected jockey M Staples will be aboard. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Seeking Bonewood<\/strong>, the third betting choice, will be coming\tout of the stall number 4 right between Goldinsky and Kgbeast.\u00a0 Ksparrow2’s<\/em>\tchestnut filly is out of a Pine Bluff mare who excelled around a mile on the\tturf.\u00a0 Her\tsire, Woodman, may lend a bit more distance to her pedigree. Seeking has\tbeen running in dirt sprints of late, and her last win came three back at\t6.5 furlongs in a 4-horse open allowance. Seeking’s lone route try was at\ta mile in a 4-horse (T) race.\u00a0 She won it, but earned in a dismal 57 SP.\u00a0 Her\ttrainer is likely trying to figure out if his filly likes any ground at all\tin a relatively easy race.\u00a0\u00a0 Based on her one route attempt, this\tfilly is unlikely to win, but stranger things have happened.\u00a0 She’ll probably\tbe sent to the lead in hopes of gathering up so much of a lead she cannot\tbe overtaken.\u00a0 Jockey N Bonus is highly-regarded at this track, and certainly\tcan be counted on to make sure this filly puts in her best performance possible. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Dance Quest<\/strong>, the 7-1 fourth betting choice, will break from the second stall.\u00a0 This\tRainbow Quest filly is out of an unraced Northern Dancer x Buckpasser mare.\u00a0 Dance\tis probably the most legitimate contender to beat Kgbeast here.\u00a0 She’s\tmade a careeer out of turf marathons, and her pedigree certainly stands her\tin good stead.\u00a0 In her nine races to date, Dance has two wins at 11 and\t9 furlongs.\u00a0 She’s spent most of her young career at the allowance level,\tbut three starts back trainer Shades<\/em> entered his filly in the Oaks\tde English<\/em>.\u00a0 The\tGrade I company was clearly over her head, but she’s shown an aptitude for\tthe 9-12 furlong range.\u00a0 If jockey T Bates can get this girl on the move\tat the right time, she could be in the battle at the wire.\u00a0 In her most\trecent win at 11furlongs, Dance took, and kept, the lead the whole way round.\u00a0 If\tshe can duplicate that style, and put in her best performance ever, she just\tmight steal the win from Kgbeast.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The longshot in this race is Buster’s Sis<\/strong>, a brown filly by Aljabr.\u00a0 Trainer\tMaxibar<\/em> is moving his filly out of a 150K claimer into stakes company here.\u00a0 Is\tit the right move?\u00a0 Doubtful.\u00a0 Sis ran in the 12-furlong Lady Geri\tSpecial two starts back and was beaten by 26 lengths to finish fifth of six.\u00a0 She\thasn’t won since January, and that was just a 4-horse 25K claimer. Sis is\tshipping in from Florida.\u00a0 At least her trainer can be content knowing\tthat even a last-place finish here will cover most of the trailering fee.\u00a0 If\tSis follows form, she’ll be a step slow out of the gate, and slowly trail\toff as the race progresses.\u00a0 Her owner might look at placing her in a 10-furlong\tdirt race next out, as her first start on dirt over a mile in a claimer showed\ther closing enough to think a slightly longer race worthwhile.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five sophomore fillies square off in 12-furlong turf test at California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}