A solid field of eight lines up for the G-3 DPCD IX Super Gold Stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Two year old fillies will race six furlongs over the firm turf course for a purse of $500,000.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>G-2 winner Texas Sky looks to add to her resume while the rest of the field is looking for their first graded score.<\/FONT><\/P> 1 \u2013 Texas Sky (5\/2) drops back in distance after an eleventh place finish in the G-1 Breeder\u2019s Bowl Juvenile Fillies Turf.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She previously won the G-2 Spring Hill Stakes at a mile earning her career high sp of 88.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Sprinting she sports a 4-2-1-1 record, including the Fillies Big \u2018un Stakes back in May.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s lead a first call in every start.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Texas Sky is a Galileo filly out of the G-1 winning b-grade mare Saracen.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Saracen was a very speedy daughter of Storm Cat x Mr. Prospector.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her first foal was certainly a disappointment, winning only once in eighteen career starts.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> 2 \u2013 Tiger Baby (11\/1) makes her stakes debut in this tough spot.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A winner of only two races in eight starts, this filly\u2019s best run was her last a 6.5 furlong NW2L allowance score in which she ran a 77sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>A daughter of the d-grade Run Softly mare Ignorantly the Bro, Tiger Baby is by Tiger Hill , a sire of moderate sim use.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ignorantly the Bro has already produced two stakes winners, one graded from eight foals.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Interestingly the last four foals are full siblings and both stakes winners are from that group.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> 3 \u2013 Queen Mary (6\/1) is ambitiously placed in what is only her third start.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This filly won first out going seven furlongs with an 80sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She was then thrown straight into G-2 company finishing a well beaten seventh in the G-2 Rockefeller Stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She\u2019s had a bit of a freshening since that start.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Certainly a filly bred to be a stakes horse, she is a daughter of Henrythenavigator.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Henry\u2019s first foals started like gangbusters last year and included five graded winners of 14 graded stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>His second crop has been considerably quieter with only two stakes winners so far.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Queen Mary is out of the e-grade Victory Gallop mare Winning Move.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Winning Move was the only stakes winner from six foals for her dam, g-grade Seattle Slew mare Burnt Seattle. \u00a0<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> 4 \u2013 Doodle B (16\/1) is another filly with only a single win to her credit.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Started with a fifth place finish on dirt, this filly switched to the turf for her second start and responded with a win at six furlongs with a 73sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her next two starts were stakes runs, a fourth in the G-3 Palms Outward Stakes then eighth in the Not Bad For a Girl Stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Doodle B is by Bernardini out of the f-grade Dixieland Band mare Corn Whiskey Run.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Two half siblings have accounted for a single win in 21 combined starts.<\/FONT><\/P> 5 \u2013 Club de Mambo (2\/1) is our favorite here off a lifetime high sp of 95 in her last start.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>First or second seven times in nine starts, this mare has two G-3 seconds to her credit in the Miesque and Cornwall Stakes, at seven and five furlongs respectively.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Club de Mambo dropped down in class last out to win the Magic Auror Stakes at today\u2019s distance of six furlongs.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This filly is one of eight stakes winners for her sire Red Clubs from 90 runners over the past three seasons.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is out of the g-grade Kingmambo mare Dancing Queeny a producer of one graded winner from seven foals.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> 6 \u2013 Lose the Dollar (5\/1) also has nine runs on the season, although she has only won twice in that time.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her best finish was a third place run in the G-1 More Glare Stakes in September, where she ran an 88sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She attempted to route in her last two starts, finishing third in the Provellian Challenge Stakes and unplaced in an allowance effort, recording lower sps in both starts.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The hope here is the turn back to sprinting will bring her back to top form.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lose the Dollar is a Shamardal filly out of Make the Dollar, a g-grade Ivan Denisovich mare.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> 7 \u2013 Light Arrow (7\/1) is a scratch bred filly by A.P. Arrow x Fantastic Light x Cherokee Run.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is her sire\u2019s second leading earner from his first crop, behind graded winner Reconnected Again.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This filly has ten runs already as a two year old with two wins and six additional finishes on the board.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her best race was a second place finish in the G-3 Park Place Stakes in October, running an 85sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Since then she was second in an open allowance at 6.5 furlongs and eighth at today\u2019s six furlong distance in the Spring Nugget Stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> 8 \u2013 Lettre Persanne (8\/1) has been a transformed filly since being switched to the turf, with a record of 5-3-1-1 after going 0 for 3 on the dirt.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She broke her maiden in her first turf start at today\u2019s six furlong distance, then took three starts to win a NW2L allowance two back.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her last race was her best, a win in the King Puppet Stakes at seven furlongs with an 85sp.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her second highest sp was also recorded at a sprint distance, an 82 in a 6.5 furlong race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lettre Persanne is a Lion Heart filly out of g-grade Red Ransom mare Red Sunday.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lettre Persanne is her first foal.<\/FONT><\/P> The play \u2013 it\u2019s hard to look past Texas Sky in this field.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is the only filly with genuine early speed and looks to control the race from the get go.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lettre Persanne is on the upswing and may have enough to catch our first choice today.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>We\u2019ll choose Queen Mary for third, considering her pedigree suggests an improvement is possible and her freshness will be an asset against fillies with many more starts on the year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> Good luck to all!\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eight Fillies Look For Graded Glory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"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-8762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762","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\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}