<\/o:p><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>This turf dash has seven fast fillies and is sure to please this week at lovely Longchamp.<\/o:p><\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/B><\/P>ZIGGOLO(ENG)<\/B> has five races under her belt and has never been off the board.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The turf specialist is trying her third continent and makes the transatlantic trip from Puerto Rico<\/st1:place>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her sharp victory in the Minsc and Boo there last out stamps her a major contender here at 7\/2.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trainer gradelane<\/I> has top jockey B Wu up, and she figures to be challenging for the lead.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is by the little-loved sire Piccolo(GB), who may be one of those British sires given a boost in the sim this year\u2026.<\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/B><\/P>MRS. PRADO(KY)<\/B> is a regally bred (El Prado x Mr. Prospector x Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Slew) scratchbred from the irebreds<\/I> stable.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is two-for-two since a switch to the turf, including a frontrunning score in the Yarni Marni in Ireland<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> in September.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is the favorite at 2-1 with solid M Mia aboard, but she may be challenged by the rail horse on the front end in this one.<\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P>RAINING DACDACS(ENG)<\/B> is another frontrunner, this one coming in at 3-1 off an allowance win at Ascot<\/st1:place>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The daughter of Dubawi out of a G grade mare had a tendency to fade late before that race, but that skein includes a third in a Grade 3, so the competition could have been tougher back then in July.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>J Ventura is having a nice 17% season and gets the call from bmr005<\/I>.<\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P>PSYCHOTHEORY(KY),<\/B> 6-1, has been raced exclusively on turf and has three wins in seven races on the surface.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Of those three wins, the last was in a stakes down in Queensland<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> and marked a first return to the winner\u2019s since the Grey Car back in May in Hong Kong<\/st1:place>.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She shows some ability to rate, which could serve her well here with I C Posse in the irons.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trainer hoseshoe<\/I> bred this one from inexpensive Bowman\u2019s Band (who was a favorite of mine on the track) out of a Freud mare.<\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P>IT IS AS IF I CAN(NZ)<\/B> is the outsider at 10-1 but gets 21% jockey J Ledwith.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She too has much turf experience, sneaking in a stakes win in the Will\u2019s Acts in Taiwan<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> back in August.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is not as fast as the best of these, but her most recent three weeks back in Tasmania<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> was something of an improvement.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The expected fast pace may hurt her chances.<\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P>NOTHIN’ LEICA T.A.(AUS) <\/B>represents the best of the crop of 1992 Down Under, with sire Nothin\u2019 Leica Dane and damsire Octagonal.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is strongly inbred to their main sirelines, Danehill and Sir Tristram.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Dam GEELONG CATTER was not very fast, but this filly may prove the best of her brood, including full sister NOTHIN’ LEICA ARSE(AUS).\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is the lone confirmed closer in the field, and may rate an upset chance at 7-1 despite a low percentage jockey, the lack of a stakes win, and relatively lower speed numbers.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Trainer adrian2<\/I> certainly hopes so.<\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P>MISS BURONGA(KY)<\/B> has been kept to turf despite a dirt-friendly sire in Mr. Greeley.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her dam, stakes-winning BURONGA PROSPECTOR, was a fast one on both surfaces but raced almost exclusively at a mile. This miss was stakes-placed back in May at Newmarket<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, but has been running in the top three in allowances since that date.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her allowance win two back in Malaysia<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> was from off the pace, but more often she presses and fades late.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Journeyman jock S Sales will try to reverse that trend for woodsmen<\/I> and cash in her 5-1 price.<\/P><\/SPAN>\u00a0<\/P>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pace duel – who will pick up the pieces?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"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-4940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}