{"id":53711,"date":"2020-11-05T03:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=53711"},"modified":"2020-11-05T01:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:44:43","slug":"breeders-bowl-f-m-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=53711","title":{"rendered":"Breeders&#8217; Bowl F &#038; M Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Breeders\u2019 Bowl F and M Sprint is one of the races that\nhas a scheduled post time of 2:00 p. m. on Friday and the top fillies and mares\nin the game have flown into Kentucky.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nThis sprint is being contested at a distance of 7 furlongs.&nbsp; A purse of $750,000 is up for grabs in this\nG1 race with more than half the field already having at least one G1 win trophy\nin their stable.&nbsp;&nbsp; We have last years F\nand M Sprint champion returning to defend her honor, Elusive Hanna.&nbsp; We also have Desertdog having two tals qualifying\nfor this field, Seniorita Caballo and Pain and Suffering.&nbsp; But with the most entries in this field is\nLenny271 with three horses going:&nbsp;\nDragon\u2019s Rage, Watoga Station and The Soulburst.&nbsp; Of Lenny\u2019s horses, Watoga Station and The\nSoulburst are half-sisters and share the same game-mare.&nbsp; Here is a look at this years Bowl runners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1&nbsp; SENIORITA\nCABALLO&nbsp; 8\/1 (<\/strong>owned by Desertdog) is\na scratch bred four-year-old out of Uncle Mo who has bankrolled $750,000 thanks\nlargely to six wins in 15 lifetime starts.&nbsp;\nShe ended 2019 and started 2020 in a good way with a 4-race win streak\nthat commenced last September with a win in an allowance race followed by a\nNovember win in a listed stakes.&nbsp; The\nstreak continued as Seniorita kicked the 2020 season off with her first career\nstart in a graded race, the G2 Distaff Breeders Bowl Cap.&nbsp; The race was a bit unusual for her as she\ngenerally is lazy in leaving the gate and falling to the backside of a race\nfield.&nbsp; In this race, she broke away in\nfourth and pretty much held that spot until the stretch run where she won by\nover a length upsetting the field at 17\/1.&nbsp;\nStaying with the G2 company, Seniorita Caballo raced in the Virginia\nMadison and non-believers sent her off at 18\/1.&nbsp;&nbsp; This time she got lazy and left the gate running\n10<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; She did make her\nway&nbsp; to the top and won a photo for the\nwin with a speed of 115 (and beating out Arkzana on the wire).&nbsp;&nbsp; Ironically, the win streak would end with\nanother photo finish in the G2 Best Flight where she went off at high odds of 13\/1\nand ran out of time and was beat by Nadera who is also running in this Bowl\nrace.&nbsp; It should be noted that her career\nbest speed of 116 was scored in this event.&nbsp;\nSeniorita would battle in her only G1 race, the Equinics, and with more\nrespectful odds of 9\/1.&nbsp;&nbsp; She would be 10\nstrides off at the half but could only dimmish that down to a bit more than\nthree as she finished fifth and losing out to The Third Bride.&nbsp;&nbsp; Her last start was in a listed stake, which\nshe won fairly easily with a 115 speed.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nSeniorita Caballo has been discarded at the wagering windows for many of\nher stake races but to the benefit of those who supported her at high\nodds.&nbsp;&nbsp; Bettors better pay attention as\nthis gal is dangerous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2&nbsp; LIAM\u2019S LITTLE\nLADY&nbsp; 9\/1 <\/strong>&nbsp;(owned by Liam) is a scratch bred\nfour-year-old filly out of Redoute\u2019s Choice who has amassed over $850,000\nthrough 13 lifetime starts with 8 wins notched on the stable wall.&nbsp;&nbsp; Four of her career wins came this year which\nstarted with a win at the allowance level back in mid-January.&nbsp;&nbsp; She advanced into a listed stake race at the\nstart of March and showed she fit right in, wiring the field by over two\nlengths.&nbsp; From this point on, it would be\ngrade level racing for this lady who likes to run up on the front end.&nbsp; She moved into the April running of the\nUnthinkable (G2) and surprised the non-believers who sent her to the gate at\n10\/1 as she posted her career best speed of 110 and settled off the lead in the\nearly going and galloped to the front to win by a stride and a half.&nbsp;&nbsp; Moving up the ranks another notch, she moved\ninto the G1 Princess Looney.&nbsp; Here,\nLiam\u2019s Little Lady was forced into a mid-field position and struggled to find a\nlane but was able to gain some small ground and finish fourth.&nbsp; This Little Lady enters into the Breeders\u2019\nBowl race off an appearance in the G1 Nutcracker.&nbsp; In this race, she again got pushed to a\nmidfield position (6<sup>th<\/sup>) but quickly moved up by the half to the\nthird spot.&nbsp; From here, she found some\ndaylight and deep into the stretch would make it to the top spot and winning by\na quarter stride and a 113 speed, beating out the front running American\nIngenuity and two others that were further back:&nbsp; Nadera and Arkzana who are also entered into\nthis Bowl race.&nbsp;&nbsp; Liam\u2019s Little Lady\nenters off a nice win and was able to take down some of the foes that she will\nface again in the Bowl, all seeking revenge.&nbsp;\nShe has the capability to deny them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3&nbsp; DRAGON\u2019S\nRAGE&nbsp; 13\/1<\/strong> (owned by Lenny271) is out\nof stake winning game mare Katzenjammer who has produced 13 children with four\nof them winning a stake race.&nbsp;\nThree-year-old Dragon\u2019s Rage is sired by Tapit and has won half of her\n12 career starts and is closing in on a half a million in purses.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dragon has been a busy girl this year,\nracing 9 times in a mix of allowance, listed stakes and grade level\nevents.&nbsp; Early in the year, she breezed\nto two back-to-back wins in allowance races, both at a mile.&nbsp; She then moved on to the listed stake races and\nfinished second in her first try at a mile route.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dragon would then be pulled back slightly in\ndistance and won another back-to-back pair of races, this time listed stake\nwins.&nbsp; Dragon\u2019s Rage generally runs in\nthe back quarter of the field and makes a smooth and steady move to gain on the\nleaders.&nbsp; In August, she would face older\nhorses for the first time as she made her debut in the graded class in the G2\nHonored Miss.&nbsp; Here she would show her\nability as she had the third hightest odds in the race at 16\/1 and rallied to\nfinish second just a length and a quarter off the winner. &nbsp;Dragon then appeared in the Nutcracker (G1),\nagain with older horses.&nbsp; She made up\nsome ground late but not enough as she ended up in sixth and charted a 108\nspeed, which was the third consecutive race with that speed.&nbsp; She went up against several horses in the\nNutcracker that are entered in this field but she was outdone by Liam\u2019s Little\nLady (1<sup>st<\/sup>),&nbsp; American\nIngenuity (2<sup>nd<\/sup>) and Nadera (4<sup>th<\/sup>).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Dragon\u2019s last start, the Evil Prep\nII&nbsp; (G1) she returned to the\nthree-year-old class and as the 7\/2 favorite, she finished second behind Pain\nand Suffering (also entered into this bowl race) by just under a length but did\nhit her career best speed of 113.&nbsp;&nbsp; She\nmay have a disadvantage as she was beat by several runners in this field in the\nNutcracker, but the career best speed in her last is a nice way to go into this\nbig race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4 SURFSIDE SUE&nbsp;\n30\/1 <\/strong>(owned by Massatoga) is one of just a few three-year-olds in\nthis event.&nbsp;&nbsp; She is a scratchbred\nfathered by Zensational.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2020 has had\nit\u2019s ups and downs for Surfside Sue.&nbsp;&nbsp; On\nthe upside, she won back-to-back grade races in March and April.&nbsp; The first came on an off-track in the G3\nCadoka.&nbsp; She sat in the second seat and\nkept the pace honest and took command of the lead past the half and walked to\nthe winner\u2019s circle by nearly 3 lengths with a 104 speed.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the G2 Stonerstop, she would sit a\nrelaxed fourth in the early going and pounced to the lead in the stretch to win\nby a length and a half as the top choice at 9\/5.&nbsp;&nbsp; In May, Surfside Sue faced older horses for\nthe first time in the G2 Vagabond.&nbsp; At\n30\/1 she looked unlikely but she ran an honest raced, held her own and finished\nthird, just \u00be-length behind the winner and posting a career best speed of 109.&nbsp; Those would be the \u201cup\u2019s\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp; On the down side, Surfside\u2019s&nbsp; last three races, all graded, were\ndisappointing as she finished 7<sup>th<\/sup> in the G2 Best Flight, again\nfacing older horses and watched from far back to see Nadera win the race.&nbsp;&nbsp; Racing back with 3-year olds, she went to\nthe Equinics as the 7\/2 choice and finished 8<sup>th<\/sup> and was never a\nfactor.&nbsp;&nbsp; Surfside Sue\u2019s most recent\nstart was in the G1 Iceburg and competing with the older ladies and finished\nnext to last.&nbsp;&nbsp; Her form of late has been\noff and competing with older horses has been a challenge.&nbsp; She may be in need of some rest and it looks\nlike this could be a tough field for her to upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5&nbsp; NADERA&nbsp; 7\/1 <\/strong>(owned by 3dddz) is a four-year-old\nfilly and is a scratch bred out of Nyquist and is the topped ranked grade\nwinner out of this sire.&nbsp; She has netted\nmore than $1.4 million in career earnings with six wins in 18 appearances.&nbsp;&nbsp; This will be her second start in the\nBreeders\u2019 Bowl as she last ran in the Juvenile Filly back in 2018 and finished\n6<sup>th<\/sup> on an off-track.&nbsp;&nbsp; Prior\nto 2020, success was rare in racing in graded competition as Nadera competed 10\ntimes with a record of 2-0-1 and the two wins were as a two year old.&nbsp;&nbsp; Things have changed in 2020 where she kicked\nthe season off with a second in a listed stake and replicated the second place\nfinish in the G2 Davey Jones Handicap.&nbsp;\nNadera found improvement flying into New York where she won a pair of G2\nraces, the first in the Bed of Flowers where she quickly controlled things on\nthe front end and wired the field with a 117 speed.&nbsp; In the Best Flight, she was pressed early on\nto stay on the lead but was able to break loose past the half only to have late\nclosing Senorita Caballo meet her on the wire, but Nadera won by the nod of the\nhead.&nbsp; In this race, she also beat out\nArkzana (3<sup>rd<\/sup>) and Surfside Sue (7<sup>th<\/sup>) who will also be\nstarting in this Bowl race.&nbsp; Nadera\nmatched her career speed of 117, in the Best Flight and moved onward to the G1\nNutcracker, her most recent start.&nbsp;&nbsp; She\nwould again meet Arkzana in this field but it was a mute point as Nadera\nfinished fourth after running in a mid-field position and was a stride off\nLiam\u2019s Little Lady the winner and another entered into the Bowl.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nadera has certainly shifted gears after\nsome prior poor outcomes in graded races and this year she is 2-2-0 in five\nstarts in stake competition.&nbsp; She\u2019s on\ntop of her game and could get the Breeders\u2019 Bowl championship that eluded her\nas a Juvy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6&nbsp; PAIN AND\nSUFFERING&nbsp; 29\/1 <\/strong>(owned by Deserdog)\nis a three-year-old filly and a scratchbred out of Street Sense.&nbsp; She has the lowest lifetime earnings in the\nfield with a notch just below $400,00 and has won three times in nine\nstarts.&nbsp;&nbsp; Pain and Suffering kicked the 2020\nyear off racing in a set of three allowance races where she finished, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>,\n2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 1<sup>st<\/sup>, improving with each race.&nbsp; Her speeds have gone upwards in a fast\nfashion from 83 to 101 in this span.&nbsp; In\nJuly, she took on her first grade level race, the G3 Love Muffins.&nbsp; This mid-pack runner gained late to finish\nthird, a length and three-quarters behind the winner but did elevate her speed\nto 106.&nbsp; Pain and Suffering\u2019s last start\nwas in the G1 Evil Prep II.&nbsp; She put on a\nnice performance as she took over the lead at the third call and was able to\nfend of Dragon\u2019s Rage (also in this Bowl race) to win with a career best speed\nof 114.&nbsp;&nbsp; This will be her first start\ngoing against older horses and she\u2019ll have to show she can compete with the\nmore experienced horses, but the way her speeds have been advancing each week,\nif that continues into this race, the other horses may feel some \u201cpain and\nsuffering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7&nbsp; WATOGA\nSTATION 25\/1 <\/strong>(owned by Lenny271) is one of four grade winning children to\ncome out of game mare Yevgin and is sired by Honor Code.&nbsp;&nbsp; She has won half of her 14 race starts and\namassed just over $1.5&nbsp; million.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Three-year-old Watoga Station made her\nfirst stake appearance in mid-2020 in a listed stake race and got the win via a\nphoto finish.&nbsp; She moved upward into the\nG2 Bob Barker after this fine performance where she ran second and took the\nlead at the head of the stretch only to be over taken in mid-stretch and finish\nsecond by a length.&nbsp; From here, Watoga\nmoved into the G1 company and ran in the Priceless stakes and went straight to\nthe front as the gate opened and closed the door as she crossed the line for\nher first grade 1 win.&nbsp;&nbsp; Watoga\nrepresented her residency in the summer Equinics and ran a very similar race to\nthe Priceless as she again went gate to wire and notched her best speed to date\nof 107.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Her most recent start was in\nthe G3 TOCA Sprint and this would be the first time she competed with older\nhorses.&nbsp;&nbsp; She was not able to get to the\nfront in this one, but ran fourth early on and as the 17\/1 outcast, she held\nsteady and finished third, a little more than a stride off the winner.&nbsp;&nbsp; Watoga has talent and likes to be up on the\nfront end and the challenge will be to get the speed a bit higher as others in\nthe field are capable of speeds of 110 and up.&nbsp;\nThis would be a great spot for her to join that club. It should be noted\nthat she will be racing against her half-sister The Soulburst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8&nbsp; THE\nSOULBURST&nbsp; 12\/1 <\/strong>&nbsp;(owned by Lenny271)&nbsp; was bred by game-mare Yevgin who only raced\n13 times with a pair of wins in her career.&nbsp;\nBreeding turned out to be her specialty as she has 11 kids with 7 with a\nstake win and four of these have won at the grade level with one of these\npreviously racing in a Breeder\u2019s Bowl race.&nbsp;\nBut an interesting development here as Soulburst\u2019s half-sister, Watoga\nStation, will race against her.&nbsp; The\nSoulburst is a four-year old who has won 8 of 19 starts with $869,000 in\nwinnings and is sired by Candy Ride.&nbsp;\nAfter a long end-of-year layoff, Soulburst started 2020 with a win in an\nallowance race.&nbsp; From here, she ran in\nthe G3 Filly Sprint and closed to get fourth.&nbsp;\nSoulburst is usually the caboose in her races and the rear of the field\nshe would be in when racing in the G2 Long Island Spririt.&nbsp; At 13\/1 she would roar home to win by one stride\nand notch&nbsp; a 107 speed, beating out More\nMoon who faded to fourth.&nbsp; Things would\nflip in the Bed of Flowers (G2) where Soulburst would finish last, well behind\nNadera who one the race and will run in this Bowl event.&nbsp; She stepped back to run in a listed stake to\nrebuild confidence and finishing 2<sup>nd<\/sup> was enough to put her into the\nG1 Princess Looney.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sunburst made a\nmistimed her late move and could only move from last to 6<sup>th<\/sup>, but was\nwithin 2 strides of the winner.&nbsp;&nbsp; The\nNutcracker (G1) was her next stop and many horses running in this field also\nran in the Nutcracker.&nbsp; Soulburst ran\nlast in the early stages and only moved up one position by the third call.&nbsp; She cut her deficit from 8 strides to just\nshy of 2 when the race was over, finishing fifth behind winning Liam\u2019s Little\nLady, however, hit her first triple digit speed of 110.&nbsp;&nbsp; Her most recent race was the G1 Evil Prep\nwhere she again was well back at the third call but this time rolled in with a\nsecond place finish and her career best speed of 115. &nbsp;The Soulburst does have a strong, very late\nrun which many times she has run out of track.&nbsp;\nThere are a lot of speedsters in this field and Soulburst might want to\nlaunch that attack earlier to nail them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9&nbsp; THE THIRD\nBRIDE&nbsp; 9\/1 <\/strong>(owned by Waremblem5) is\nthe child of Hall of Famer Mother of Dragons who has four children that have\nwon at the G1 level with six other stake winners.&nbsp; All four G1 winners have appeared in Breeder\nBowl races and The Third Bride ran in the F &amp; M Sprint last year finished\nfourth.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She has won 6 out of 18 starts\nand picked up just under $1.8 million in purses and will try again this year in\nthis event.&nbsp; In six starts this year, she\nhas three wins and a place.&nbsp; One of the\nvictories was in a confidence building allowance race that led her into the G1\nHumane Distaff where she ran second and took the lead at the head of the\nstretch, only to be over taken by Arkzana and finishing second with her\nlifetime best speed of 116.&nbsp; With her\nconfidence apparently re-established she then ran in the G2 Gleaming\nInvitational and this time sitting in the second seat paid off as she took over\nthe lead to take home the win with a 115 speed and by a 1 and quarter length\nmargin.&nbsp; The Third Bride would quickly\ncollect another G1 win in the Equinics 6.5f sprint by going directly to the\nlead and got the win by a quarter length, and topped the fourth place Senorita\nCaballo who is also in this event.&nbsp; Luck\nwould not follow into Bride\u2019s last stop, the G2 Boom Boom Handicap as she led\nearly on, but was pressured and finished seventh in the field.&nbsp; This four-year-old likes to race on the front\nand has the experience and ability to get the win.&nbsp; She does come off a poor outcome in her last\nstart and if she can shrug that off, the winner\u2019s circle is reachable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10&nbsp; MORE MOON<\/strong>&nbsp; 9\/1 (owned by Knightmare) is a four-year-old\nwho was sired by More Than Ready and is one of three grade winners out of five\nchildren of game mare Storm the Moon.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nMore Moon is closing in on $800,000 in earnings and has been victorious\nseven times in 16 races.&nbsp;&nbsp; She has raced\neight times this year with four wins, two at the beginning of the season and\nthe other pair in her last two starts.&nbsp;\nThe first two wins came in an allowance and a listed stakes race.&nbsp;&nbsp; She has early speed and in her first grade\nlevel race, the G2 Long Island Sprint, she linked up in an early front end\nbattle and eventually was swept up by late runners and finished fourth by a\nlength.&nbsp;&nbsp; She would again be in another\nfront end battle in the G2 Unthinkable and fade off to fifth, some four lengths\nbehind the eventual winner, Liam\u2019s Little Lady.&nbsp;&nbsp; Things would improve as More Moon would\nfinish second in the Vagabond Handicap (G2) and post a 110 speed, beating out\nSurfside Sue who will also be taking on this Bowl race.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the Vagabond, she was able to get an\nuncontested lead, but was run down late.&nbsp;\nThis occurred again in the G2 Delta Tau Chi Sprint where she finished\nsecond, caught once again in late stretch and a nice 113 speed.&nbsp;&nbsp; In August, she ran in the G2 Dancer Cap and\nthis time was able to wire the field with a solid 114 speed, which was one of\nher last two starts referenced earlier.&nbsp;\nHer last start was in a listed stake race and she easily wired the field\nin that race.&nbsp;&nbsp; This will be More Moon\u2019s\ndebut at the G1 level.&nbsp; She has lots of\nearly speed but she could be in trouble if she gets pressured to retain the top\nspot.&nbsp; There is a handful of front\nrunners in this field and it may be hard for her to get to her desired\nposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>11&nbsp; AMERICAN\nINGENUITY&nbsp; 9\/1 <\/strong>(owned by KF) is the\nchild of game mare Slew of Smart, who was an 11 time winner in 25 starts and\nwon stakes at the G3 level.&nbsp;&nbsp; She has\nproduce three children, all of which have won stake races and American\nIngenuity the only at the grade level at this writing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; American Ingenuity has earned $940,000\nover her 22 race career and, like her mother, has won plenty of races with nine\nto her credit.&nbsp; As for 2020,&nbsp; she has raced nine times this year with all\nbeing in listed and grade level stakes and won twice.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both were in listed stakes with a win back\nin April where she wired the field and notched a 113 speed, which is her best\nfor 2020.&nbsp; She later won the other listed\nstakes, going on the turf, in July, and wiring the field once again.&nbsp;&nbsp; As for some of the grade level races, she\nwas an off-the-board 6<sup>th<\/sup> in the G1 Everclear Handicap, a bit more\nthan 3 strides&nbsp; behind race winner\nArkzana, who is also running in the Bowl.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nShe again lost to Akzana in the Human Distaff, finishing further back in\n11<sup>th<\/sup> and 9 lengths off the winner.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nAmerian Ingenuity\u2019s last two dirt grade level races, she was second in the\nLil\u2019 Leprechaun Dash after leading for nearly the entire race.&nbsp; She ran in the Nutcracker and got beat late\nin the race by Liam\u2019s Little Lady after again being in charge on the front end\nand knocked down to the second spot, spoiled by a quarter stride. &nbsp;&nbsp;She comes in off a fifth place finish in the\nG3 Everclear which was a turf race.&nbsp;\nAmerican Ingenuity seems to have her best outcomes this year in races\nwhere she is the leader at the half.&nbsp;\nThis occurred four times this year and she won twice and second twice.&nbsp; Otherwise, in her 9 races this year, her\nrecord is 2-3-0, the best coming from being on the lead at the half.&nbsp; There are several front runners in this race\nand it will be her mission to be the leader at the half, but competition will\nbe tough on her to be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12&nbsp; ELUSIVE\nHANNAH&nbsp; 9\/1&nbsp; <\/strong>(owned by James34) is a scratch bred\nfive-year-old who is sired by Eluisve Quality with a nice $1.5 million in\nearnings, winning 11 of 23 starts.&nbsp;&nbsp; She\nis the returning Breeders\u2019 Bowl F and M Sprint winner from 2019, which she won\nat 8\/1 and a 115 speed.&nbsp;&nbsp; She had a great\n2019 campaign and in one spurt she won 4 of 5 grade races with a second\nsandwiched between the wins.&nbsp;&nbsp; 2020 has\nhad it\u2019s rough spots for the champ as she raced in three grade races to start\nthe year and was off the board in each one.&nbsp;\nThe Davey Jones Handicap (G2) she was 8<sup>th<\/sup> after running 5<sup>th<\/sup>\nthe majority of the race.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the G2\nVirginal Madison, Elusive Hannah was ninth and a good distance behind winning\nSenorita Caballa.&nbsp; Elusive Hannah\u2019s best\nfinish this year in grade racing was in the Blackhawk Cup where she was\nfifth.&nbsp;&nbsp; After these races, she was\ndropped down to the allowance class where she has a pair of third place\nfinishes and most recently, re-found her way to the winner\u2019s circle and hit her\nbest speed of the year of 109.&nbsp;\nUnfortunately, our returning champ looks to be off her game.&nbsp; Last year she won seven of ten starts and\nthis season she\u2019s got one win in six tries.&nbsp;\n&nbsp;Her career best speed is 115\nwhich she snagged in last years Bowl race.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nRight now her form is a concern and maybe the allowance class races will\nelevate her confidence so she can defend her championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>13&nbsp; OTTO\nPONTCHARTRAIN&nbsp; 8\/1&nbsp; <\/strong>(owned by Kaner) is a five-year-old mare\nwho has a trophy case filled with trophies from 12 of her 25 career starts as\nwell as a bank account with over $970,000 from purses.&nbsp;&nbsp; She is out of game mare Easy Broad, who has\na dozen children with Otto Pontchartrain being the only one to win within grade\nlevel competition.&nbsp; Compared to others in\nthe field, she has been lightly raced this 2020 season, appearing in four races\nand winning three of these starts.&nbsp; The\nfirst came in a listed stake where she ran in the rear quarter of the field and\nstormed to the wire to win by two strides and a speed of 111 (her best for\n2020, and just shy of her lifetime best of 113.)&nbsp; From here, Otto Pontcartrain moved up to\ngraded competition for the first time and took on the G3 Flying Pig.&nbsp; She was in the 10<sup>th<\/sup> spot at the\nthird call and fired things up and cruised to win the race by a length and a\nquarter.&nbsp; She moved up to the top tier of\nracing after that win and the Princess Looney (G1) was her next stop and found\nherself in a similar dilemma at the third call, in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> spot but\nwas able to overcome this and soared to the lead to win by a quarter\nstride.&nbsp; She outran Liam\u2019s Little Lady\n(who was 4<sup>th<\/sup> in this race) and will be facing again in the Breeders\u2019\nBowl.&nbsp;&nbsp; Otto last start was in the\nEquinics (Hubble Telescope) and was running 8<sup>th<\/sup> at the third call\nbut was unable this time to make her last quarter late run.&nbsp; She finished sixth and four lengths behind\nThe Third Bride and one spot behind Senorita Caballo.&nbsp;&nbsp; Otto Pontchartrain has had a good season so\nfar this year with her last race being the exception.&nbsp; She\u2019s got that damaging very late run that\nmust be respected and if she shakes off the Equinics race, she could be trouble\nto her competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>14&nbsp; ARKZANA<\/strong> 9\/2\n&nbsp;(owned by Johnkarczewski) is a four year\nold filly out of More Than Ready and is a scratchbred.&nbsp; She brings in a tidy sum of over $1.8 million\nin career earnings and has one nearly half her starts with 8 victories in 17\nstarts.&nbsp;&nbsp; She became a G1 winner in her\nfirst start this year by taking the Everclear Handicap with an enticing speed\nfigure of 116.&nbsp; Not bad for those who\nwagered on her at 9\/1 odds.&nbsp; She would\nquickly gain her second G1 win in May, but before she got there she put in a\nfine second in the G2 Virgina Madison just losing by a head on the wire to\nSenoriata Caballo.&nbsp; The May G1 came in\nthe Humane Distaff and Arkzana drifted some 7 strides off the leader before\npulling the trigger and overtaking The Third Bride (finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and\nalso entered in this race) to win by 1 \u00bd lengths.&nbsp;&nbsp; Arkzana would then compete and finish in\nthird in the G2 Best Flight, being beat out by Nadera and following Senorita\nCabello to the line once again.&nbsp;&nbsp; Arkzana\ntook to NY to compete in the August running of the Nutcracker, and as the 4\/1\nfave, had her worst finish of 2020, finishing 8<sup>th<\/sup> with Liam\u2019s Little\nLady taking the victory and trailing once again behind Nadera.&nbsp; The Evil Prep (G1) is her most recent start\nand she gained her 3<sup>rd<\/sup> G1 win of the year and equalled her career\nbest speed of 118 which she notched in the Humane Distaff.&nbsp; The 9\/2 favorite won by 2 strides and beat\nout The Soulburst who was closing late.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nArkzana sure looks good in this field but will be running against other\nmares in this field who have got the best of her before.&nbsp; Could be her turn to be the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PICKS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m going with Arkzana who comes off a good win in the\nEvil Prep and has done well against many of these with the exception of the\nNutcracker event, his only throw away race this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also like Nadera who is a versatile lady who is able to\nrun on the front end or relax a bit in the middle of the field.&nbsp; She\u2019s got a good record going this year and\ncan\u2019t be ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liam\u2019s Little Lady comes off a very nice win in the\nNutcracker and defeated many of the runners in this race and could do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good luck to everyone in this race\u2026anyone can get this\none!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breeders\u2019 Bowl F and M Sprint is one of the races that has a scheduled post time of 2:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53711","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\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53713,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53711\/revisions\/53713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}