Nob Hill<\/STRONG> was never far from an early speed duel, but she proved herself much the best when she charged down the stretch to capture the Grade I, $500,000 GSR Diamond over Longchamp’s firm grass course on Saturday.<\/P> It was an extreme show, as Xtremely A Show<\/STRONG> and Prahba(AUS)<\/STRONG> exchanged early, contentious fire on the lead, with The Blue Sword(GB)<\/STRONG> and Large Marge(IRE)<\/STRONG> in close pursuit.\u00a0 The opening half-mile looked very strong, which was when the 7-1 Nob Hill<\/STRONG> began to unleash her late run.\u00a0 She carried her momentum between horses, finally reaching the lead with about three-sixteenths to go.\u00a0 The talented turf juvenile was clear by two-and-a-quarter lengths under the line.\u00a0 Takethecar<\/STRONG>, breaking from an outside post, was wide throughout, but closed sufficiently to wind up second.\u00a0 The Blue Sword(GB)<\/STRONG>, stalking close the whole way, had just enough left to hold on to third.\u00a0 And a horse to watch closely from this field is the favored Benefactress(IRE)<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 Dropping almost 10 lengths out of it with a half-mile remaining, she unleashed a furious late rally on the turn, and finished strong far too late to edge out early leader Prahba(AUS)<\/STRONG> for fourth.\u00a0 She galloped out very well, and showed tremendous grit and heart late to impress the railbirds, who agreed that longer distances, perhaps even the added sixteenth of next month’s Juvenile Filly Turf, are in her future.<\/P> Nob Hill<\/STRONG>, a beautiful light grey daughter of Miesque’s Son-Frisco Project, by With Approval, ran the grass mile on a firm course in 1:37, meriting an 87 speed fig and earning $300,000 for the novanora<\/EM><\/STRONG> barn, and has garnered new respect in the turf rankings, climbing all the way to #2 in the classic division.\u00a0 She’ll be one to reckon with when the Sim’s top two-year-olds on\u00a0grass, filly division, congregate in New York for October 29th’s Breeders Bowl Juvenile Filly Turf.\u00a0 The race, for week 2657, shapes up to be a handicapper’s challenge.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wins Grade I GSR Diamond For Grass Fillies With Style<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}