{"id":55526,"date":"2021-09-23T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=55526"},"modified":"2021-09-24T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:56:42","slug":"three-year-old-fillies-take-to-the-turf-in-the-100000-esr-player-contribution-stakes-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=55526","title":{"rendered":"Three Year Old Fillies Take to the Turf in the $100,000 ESR Player Contribution Stakes 34"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A field of Six Three Year Old\nFillies will enter the Big Apple starting gate in the $100,000 ESR Player\nContribution Stakes 34<\/strong>.  The race\nwill be run at Nine Furlongs over the Turf Course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEY FRENCHY \u2013 <\/strong>the nextbonus<\/em> 3-Year Old Bay Filly is out\nof the little used, even  lesser known FR\nsire French Fifteen<\/em>, a multiple Graded Stakes winner in France that\nincludes the Grade One Criterium International<\/em> over the Turf Course at\nOne Mile\u2026his SIM offspring, an impressive Filly, has won four of six starts and\nhas already established herself as her DAM\u2019s best runner and is well on her way\nto bearing that same distinction in her sires resume`\u2026the FR bred parlayed a\nthird place finish against a small but talented field of fillies in the\nArc Over Danzig Turf Filly Route<\/em>, into her first career stakes victory\nlast out in the A. P. Swamp Turf Filly Route<\/em> in what was a career best\nin her first try at the mile and one eighth distance\u2026the $125k claiming tag in\nher first career start now looks like a bargain as the FR bred has gone on to\nearn $129k in her six career starts with a huge upside on her earning potential\ngoing forward\u2026nothing about this pedigree says nine panels, the DAM, out of Oasis\nDream<\/em> did her best running at a mile and under, her half-brother, out of Frankel<\/em>,\nhit the board only once in 11 career starts beyond a mile, so the question is, was\nher last start  an anomaly?  Could the hard-fought head victory in her\nlast start have taken something out of her? Is a bounce off a career best\nspeed-figure on the horizon?  For my\ndollar, she has defied all the logic a handicapper can summon, is clearly on\nthe path to become the top offspring of this obscure sire, and has certainly\nearned the right to dismiss any doubt when making your choice at the betting\nwindow\u2026major player<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLOAKED IN GOLD \u2013 <\/strong>no race is cut and dry when there is a kingab<\/em>\nrunner in the field\u2026his 3-Year Old Bay Filly by Dubawi<\/em> has cruised\nthrough conditions and now has dead aim on her first career Stakes\nvictory\u2026second by only a head in the 9.5-furlong Its For La Rossa Turf Filly\nRoute<\/em> two races back left the ENG bred yearning for more, but a third place\nfinish LTO in the 10-furlong Carson A. S. Turf Filly Route<\/em>, despite a\ncareer best 103 speed figure, kept the champagne on ice\u2026turning back to nine\npanels, where she is a perfect two for two, should pop the cork on this\ncelebration and point this filly toward the next level of racing\u2026one to beat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUTCHERS HOOK \u2013 <\/strong>the trotter1<\/em> entry by English Channel<\/em>\nlooked like a different filly in her last start when she drew away from a NW2L\nfield while posting a career best 104-speed figure\u2026maybe it was the dirt to\nturf angle, maybe she figured it out, or maybe it was that dose of pixeline<\/em>\nI injected into her just before the race, but who knows, maybe I DO have a shot\nin this race\u2026hahaha, not a chance\u2026there isn\u2019t enough pixeline<\/em> to get\nthis gal home ahead of the top two, but oh whaESR Player Contribution Stakes 34t\na buzz\u2026look elsewhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SWEET SOVEREIGN \u2013 <\/strong>if it was a Dirt race I might be all over this valesa<\/em>\ntrained 3-Year Old Bay Filly by Malibu Moon<\/em>, but I\u2019m not quite ready to\ngo all in on this KY bred based on her Turf victory two races back in her first\ncareer start\u2026yes, the filly jumped a couple of conditions in that start, but\nshe has been keeping strict company in her previous outings and she definitely enjoyed\nsome class relief in that Turf start despite the jump in ALW conditions\u2026sure\nconnections may have used that race with the ESR<\/strong> feature in mind, but\nask yourself why her last start was on dirt\u2026I suspect connections know her real\nsuccess for this filly is going to come over the dirt course and it is very\nlikely, unless she can somehow steal the bottle of bubbly, that you will find\nher in a very long and successful dirt career going forward\u2026might surprise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AKR TAPIT IN \u2013 <\/strong>the ace<\/em> trained 3 Year Old Light Grey\nFilly by Tapit<\/em> always draws you in like a magnet with her beautiful\npedigree\u2026the winner of the ESR Player Contribution Stakes 20<\/em> was\ntaunting the field with her 103-speed figure but was just plain showing off\nwhen she popped a 111 speed figure to finish second in her next start in Button\nDirt Filly Mile<\/em>, a race that featured multiple stakes winners\u2026here\u2019s the\nrub, her excellence has come over the dirt course and at distances under nine\npanels\u2026yes I saw her turf victory in May, but NWx races are some of the easiest\nraces to win that early in the year for 3yo\u2019s, especially if your daddy is Tapit<\/em>\u2026it\u2019s\nthat 9f race<\/em> in the Also Sweet Dirt Filly Route<\/em> on the Dirt, a\nsurface she excels on, that makes me look elsewhere, but as ace<\/em> often\ndoes, she makes me look back and then I turn to stone\u2026your call<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAY TO FIRE LAKE \u2013\n<\/strong>I\u2019m sure the casino<\/em> connections are feeling\nthe frustrations of breeding a Frankel<\/em> and the best races so far come in\na sprint\u2026not quite what one would envision, been there\u2026the good news is that Frankel\u2019s<\/em>\ntake time, and maybe the 9-furlongs is just what the horse whisperer ordered,\nor perhaps it\u2019s time for this KY bred filly to follow in her hemare\u2019s footsteps\nand find her way in 12-16-furlong marathons\u2026the winner of one lifetime is in\ntough against this field regardless of whether she moves up at this distance,\nbut connections would love an improved effort with the added distance\u2026must show\nmore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Handicapping the\nField<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a big question of\nsurface, distance, or class for all but two horses in this field , so a $50\nExacta Box with HEY FRENCHY <\/strong>and CLOAKED IN GOLD <\/strong>is in order.  This is the time of the year when so many 3-year\nold\u2019s are coming off career best speed figures, so it is hard to draw and\nconclusions from those starts. Giving class and distance is the priority when\ntrying to determine the outcome of this race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLOAKED IN GOLD<\/strong> looks more like a seasoned veteran and the\nclosest runner in this field to a Graded try.  \nHEY FRENCHY<\/strong>, based of pedigree, is a freak.  There is no telling how good this filly is or\nwill be.  She has certainly exceeded any\nexpectations this writer would have imagined, so why should it stop there.  Enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SWEET SOVEREIGN <\/strong>and AKR TAPIT IN <\/strong>are mirror images on each\nother.  Both very talented with a\npotential to run on both surfaces, however, for my money, I expect they will\nexcel over the Dirt surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BUTCHERS HOOK <\/strong>looked like another filly in her last start.  Was it a fluke; as the trainer, I say\nabsolutely. I would have to see a lot more from her to start touting her in a\nrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look, WAY TO FIRE LAKE <\/strong>is\nbred to run all day.  Sure, she might\nimprove going today\u2019s distance, but Keith, I love you man, but get this filly\nin a 12\u201316-furlong race and end the frustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Picks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CLOAKED IN GOLD \u2013\nthe pen of death strikes again<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEY FRENCHY \u2013 I\nhate when I have to go and use a sire I never heard of<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SWEET SOVEREIGN <\/strong>and AKR TAPIT IN \u2013 you decide which one\ncompletes the tri<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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