{"id":9524,"date":"2011-08-25T21:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=9524"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=9524","title":{"rendered":"11 Fillies And Mares Raring To Go In Gr. 2 Pitcher Molly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><SPAN lang=EN><P>The $300,000 Grade 2 Pitcher Molly Stakes features\u00a0a few Tiara champions on Saturday in New Jersey.<\/P><P>Artemis and Apollo is one of those former Tiara race champions, and she\u2019s the morning line favorite, at 5\/2, for the Pitcher Molly this weekend. Most of the fillies and mares who have drawn low odds by the morning line odds makers have drawn outside posts here, including Artemis And Apollo, San Fran Gold, Vimsha and speedster Red Smarty. <\/P><P>In fact, only one of these early favorites, Empire Haack, has drawn an inside post, and that might be a big advantage for the second choice at 9\/2 from Otto Haack (Venezuela) Stables.<\/P><P>We present a new section of these previews we call \u201cAussie J. D.\u2019s Mission Impossible Race Analysis.\u201d It\u2019s a program my husband J. D. Smith wrote that will try each week to predict how the field will look, at four different sections of the race. J. D. says the program is a work in progress, so give him a few minutes to perfect it. After all, I only started twisting his arm to do this last weekend.<\/P><P><STRONG>************************************************************<\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG>AUSSIE JD\u2019S MISSION IMPOSSIBLE <\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG>GRADE 2 THE PITCHER MOLLY PRE-RACE ANALYSIS<\/STRONG><\/P><P>G&#8217;day again, and welcome to another Mission Impossible. Are things looking up? Too early to tell, but the track is fast and the horses in the enclosure look ready to run.<\/P><B><P>At The First Call:<\/P><\/B><P>A field of 11 break from the barriers in the Pitcher Molly Stakes, with Giudecca jumping to an early lead from barrier 1. Darkest Days, Red Smarty, San Fran Gold, and Artemis And Apollo will be settling just off the pace. Got Lemons, Empire Haack, Vimsha and Storm The Sky are just behind them, with Awesome Chance beating just the one, Relax Londo.<\/P><B><P>At The Second Call:<\/P><\/B><P>Into the first turn, Giudecca controls the pace. Darkest Days lays second, with Red Smarty edging closer. San Fran Gold, Artemis And Apollo, Empire Haack draw clear of Storm The Sky, who has improved to eighth place, with Vimsha ninth. Awesome Chance is just clear of the trailer, Relax Londo, halfway into the race.<\/P><B><P>At The Third Call:<\/P><\/B><P>The pace is starting to quicken now. Giudecca is the first beaten, dropping back around the far turn. Darkest Days takes the lead, just ahead of San Fran Gold and Red Smarty. Empire Haack is now making his move into fourth place and Artemis And Apollo is fifth,<SUP> <\/SUP>looking for room. Giudecca is next after dropping back, with Vimsha making her claim. Got Lemons and Storm The Sky are just clear of Awesome Chance and Relax Londo.<\/P><B><P>At The Finish:<\/P><\/B><P>And into the stretch they come, Darkest Days is under the whip and clear of a fast-running Empire Haack. Artemis And Apollo has found some running room and is in pursuit. Red Smarty is plugging on. Vimsha is still closing, whilst San Fran Gold has raised the white flag. Storm The Sky, Got Lemons, Awesome Chance, Relax Londo and early leader Giudecca is last.<\/P><P><STRONG>1 \u2013 Darkest Days<\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG>2 \u2013 Empire Haack<\/STRONG><\/P><P><STRONG>3 \u2013 Artemis And Apollo<\/STRONG><\/P><B><P>************************************************************* <\/P><\/B><P>And now, here is the field for the running of the 8.5-furlong $300,000 Grade 2 The Pitcher Molly Stakes for fillies and mares three years old and up on the fast dirt course in New Jersey. <\/P><B><P>1 \u2013 GIUDECCA (KY) <\/B>Owner: Martialis Stables (martialis)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>15\/1<\/B> (Distorted Humor x Venezia (Unbridled&#8217;s Song x Storm Cat))<BR><BR>Giudecca at least can say that she\u2019s tried the routes a few times in her 17 starts. The four year old daughter of Distorted Humor out of the Unbridled\u2019s Song mare Venezia has only five route tries in those 17 career starts. She doesn\u2019t have any graded stakes wins yet, but she did see a couple of these fillies and mares earlier this season in the Grade 2 Encino Man Stakes out in California where she finished fifth. That race&#8211;and that fifth place finish&#8211;was rather deceptive, because by no means was this four year old mare badly beaten. In fact, in that wild finish in the Encino Man Stakes, she was only two lengths behind the winner back in January. Her last two starts were at this 8.5 furlong distance she\u2019ll see on Saturday. Two starts back she ran second in the Incomplete Pass Dirt Mare Route, and then last time out she tried the turf and finished second in the Royal Tiara Turf Mare Route. She threw identical 101 speed figures in those races. She started out her career with a bang as a late two year old and early three year old, breaking her maiden first time out with an 80 speed figure and coming right back and winning her next start out in allowance company with a 91 speed figure. She got involved in stakes competition fairly quickly and paid the price for it with a couple of dismal finishes next two starts out, but she rebounded nicely once she was put back in allowance company. The highest speed figure of her career is 103 and that came way back in September of last season when she son the 7.5 furlong EXTREMELY RAZE Challenge Stakes. If she\u2019s anything like Red Smarty who\u2019s also in this race, she might turn all that sprint experience she\u2019s got into some very fast early fractions up front. She might even get into a speed duel with the likes of Red Smarty, and that would probably not be the best thing that could happen to either of those two. If Giudecca and Red Smarty can rate well on Saturday and try to reel in some of that early speed, they might just have enough to hang tough with this bunch. Guidecca, with a bit more route experience, is likely to be able to do that much easier than Red Smarty.<\/P><B><P>2 &#8212; DARKEST DAYS (KY) <\/B>Owner: Black Label Stables (sdmf2)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>15\/1<\/B> (More Than Ready x Sinner (Deputy Minister x Alydar))<BR><BR>Darkest Days is only three years old, and she\u2019ll be up against it here when she goes against the likes of seasoned veterans Empire Haack and Artemis And Apollo and a few others. The daughter of More Than Ready out of the Deputy Minister mare Sinner has been continually improving almost every start out this season. She doesn\u2019t have a graded stakes win yet in her 12 career starts, but she surprised more than a few folks last time out in the 9 furlong Grade 1 Go For Gold Stakes at 19-1 in Upper New York. She finished third there, beaten only 3 \u00be lengths behind number one ranked older female Union Jack Flyer. It was only her second start against older females in a race that featured four million-dollar plus earners, and Darkest Days beat three of them that day. She lost a little ground in deep stretch, so she\u2019ll probably like the turn back in distance to 8.5 furlongs here in The Molly Pitcher this weekend. Two starts back, in her first career start against older females, she threw the highest speed figure of her career (106) in finishing a very close second in a $73,000 allowance event at 8.5 furlongs. That race, combined with her third place last time out in the Go For Gold against all those millionaires, has encouraged her owner to throw her into the fire here in the Pitcher Molly. She likes to lay a bit closer to the leaders than most of these, and she could surprise a few folks here after what she did in the Go For The Gold Stakes. Although she doesn\u2019t have quite the speed numbers a lot of these have here, she\u2019s a filly whose star is on the rise.<\/P><B><P>3 &#8212; EMPIRE HAACK (KY) <\/B>Owner: Otto Haack (Venezuela) (ojai09)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>9\/2<\/B> (Empire Maker x Rosa Bonheur (Peintre Celebre (IRE) x Forty Niner))<BR><\/P><P>The five year old daughter of Empire Maker doesn\u2019t have any graded stakes wins this year, which caused her to slip a bit in the older female dirt classic rankings this season. But she came close to her first graded win this year last time out when she rushed late to lose by just a neck to Union Jack Flyer in the Grade 1 Very Vane in California. She threw a 109 speed figure in that effort, and that race and her stupendous closing kick to almost get up and beat the number one ranked female in that division on July 30 could be a signal that Empire Haack is back in form and ready to improve on her number 27 ranking. All three of her graded wins in her career came in three consecutive races, starting with the 9 furlong Grade 2 Hunted By Lions Stakes back in November of 2009. She followed that up with a win in the 8.5 furlong Grade 1 Encino Man in California in January of 2010, probably the finest performance of her career, when she threw a jolting 115 speed figure, the highest of her career. Then she went down south and popped a 114 speed figure when she won the Grade 3 Sabian Handicap in Florida. Last season, she threw a 109 speed figure when she finished third in the Breeder\u2019s Bowl Distaff, a race where she was picking up a ton of ground late on the leaders and could very easily have won if the wire had not come up so soon. It looks like after a so so season in 2011 that Empire Haack is back, and that could spell big trouble for this field, especially if she can improve on that 109 speed figure she ran last time out in the Very Vane. Watch out for this one from the Otto Haack barn. She\u2019ll be running hard late, although she would probably like a bit longer than the 8.5 furlongs she\u2019ll see in the Molly Pitcher. She hasn\u2019t run this distance since April 2, when she ran fourth in the Grade 1 Orange Blossom, a race won by the favorite here, Artemis And Apollo.<\/P><B><P>4 &#8212; STORM THE SKY (IRE) <\/B>Owner: Chimera (daqt2)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>9\/1<\/B> (Cape Cross (IRE) x Storm The Queen (Storm Cat x Forty Niner))<BR><\/P><P>The four year old daughter of Cape Cross doesn\u2019t have quite the stakes experience of a few of these, but she\u2019s warming up at just the right time here. She\u2019s coming off the highest speed figure race of her career (109), when she finished a fast closing second in the 9-furlong Carol Of The Bells Stakes down in Argentina on July 23. That 109 speed figure ranks right up there with a lot of these in the Pitcher Molly on Saturday. Two starts back, she won the 9-furlong Well Heeled Dirt Mare Route in Iowa where she came from way back with a furious rush to score there with a 106 speed figure. Storm The Sky loves to lay back early and come storming home in deep stretch late, so she might just catch a few of these by surprise if she doesn\u2019t get tangled up in traffic on Saturday. She\u2019s a very consistent young mare, with six wins and a total of 15 in-the-money finishes in her 21 career starts, so that bodes well for her chances in this spot. Storm The Sky has only one graded stakes race in those 21 starts, and that came last May in the Grade 3 Great Fiddle Stakes Handicap in Maine, where she finished off the board. She had turned back to allowance company since then, before her last two stakes runs, but she\u2019s really rounding into super form now, with six triple digit speed figure starts in her last seven outings. Storm The Sky would love nothing better than to see a few of these get tangled up in a front end speed duel here on Saturday. She\u2019ll need some fast fractions to run at, if her late closing style is going to be successful on Saturday. She\u2019s in with a pretty classy bunch, but if she can repeat her last two efforts, speed numbers-wise, she could be one to watch late here in the Pitcher Molly. <\/P><B><P>5 \u2013 RELAX LONDO (CZE) <\/B>Owner: Wolf&#8217;s Den (graywolf21)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>29\/1<\/B> (Relaxed Gesture (IRE) x Lush (Lonhro (AUS) x Alwuhush))<BR><\/P><P>Relax Londo has been in nine claiming races in her career, and now the four year old daughter of Relaxed Gesture is dancing with the champion Tiara girls here in the Grade 2 Pitcher Molly on Saturday. She\u2019s come a long way from those $5,000 claimers she was racing against early in her career. In fact, it wasn\u2019t before nine or so starts into her career that she broke the 70 speed figure mark. But her owner was patient with her, and it\u2019s starting to pay off. You see a lot more of these type horses in graded races than you think. And some of them can jump up and shock you sometimes. Her dam is Lush, by the Australian sire Lohnro, so you think this one might like the turf more. And she\u2019s bounced around between turf and dirt most of her career trying to find herself. In the fall of last year, she started popping some fairly nice speed figures before she took a little dip in a 9-furlong allowance race in Denmark. After that her owner threw her in a couple more turf races, and she suddenly woke up. She began throwing 90-ish speed figures, and in March she tried her first&#8211;and only&#8211;graded stakes try in the Grade 3 Jennie Wiley on the dirt. While she didn\u2019t fare so well there, she didn\u2019t take a big dip in speed figures for the first time in her career, so her owner put her in the 8-furlong Admiral\u2019s Projects Dirt Mare Mile where she finished a very respectable fourth, beaten by only two lengths. More importantly, it marked the first time in her career she hit the triple digit speed figure mark (101). While that doesn\u2019t rank quite up there with most of these here in New Jersey on Saturday, she backed that up with a couple more respectable third place finishes in an 8 furlong allowance and the 8.5 furlong Swill Wavering Dirt Mare Route in British Columbia. She made up a ton of ground late in both those starts, especially that allowance race in North Dakota two starts back. And you\u2019ll probably see more of the same from her on Saturday. You just never know about horses like this in these big events. They might just roll in here and wilt with this type of competition, but then again, they might just come into one of these events and shock everyone with a super sharp performance. She\u2019s a long shot here but one you might want to keep an eye on.<\/P><B><P>6 &#8212; AWESOME CHANCE (KY) <\/B>Owner: Right At Home Stables (bandinni)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>12\/1<\/B> (Awesome Again x Fighting Chance (Distorted Humor x Dynaformer))<BR><\/P><P>Awesome Chance started off her career with five tries on the turf as a two year old, where she did pretty well out west in California and New Mexico. But she was still winless when her owner, Right At Home Stables, shipped her east to Florida and threw her on the dirt for the first time in her final two year old start. She won there for the first time. It didn\u2019t take her long to make an impact on the dirt, winning an 8-furlong $52,000 allowance event and nearly pulling off a big score in the 8-furlong Grade 3 Davola Dane back in February of last year. She lost by a head there to Modernistic in her first graded attempt. She looked like a pretty nice candidate for the Bluegrass Oaks at that point, but she never made it to any of the Triple Tiara races. She actually didn\u2019t throw her first triple digit speed figure until much later in her three year old campaign. That came in October of last season in a $46,000 allowance event in Eastern Kentucky. That race would propel her to a couple of in-the-money finishes in stakes races. She then went to the Grade 3 Jennie Wiley back in April of this season, where she finished a very close second again, this time to the number one ranked older female in her division, Union Jack Flyer. That was a pretty impressive try for Awesome Chance, for a couple of reasons. First, it was Union Jack Flyer she lost to, and it was by only a quarter of a length. And second, Awesome Chance threw the highest speed figure of her career (111) in that effort. She hasn\u2019t been in the money in her four starts since then, but they were all huge grade 1 and grade 2 races. She held her own, picking up a check in two of them and popping triple-digit speed figures in three of those four starts. Awesome Chance runs a lot like her dam, Fighting Chance, who was by Distorted Humor. She lays way back early and comes charging hard late down the stretch. She might not like this 8.5 furlong distance the Pitcher Molly has to offer, because of her late-running style, but if she\u2019s on her game, like she was in the Jennie Wiley Stakes earlier this year, Awesome Chance can definitely throw a scare into this bunch here in New Jersey on Saturday, if she comes up with a strong late push.<\/P><B><P>7 &#8212; GOT LEMONS (KY) <\/B>Owner: Jrogue Stables (jrogue3)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>11\/1<\/B> (Lemon Drop Kid x Affirmed x Graustark)<BR><\/P><P>The four year old daughter of Lemon Drop Kid was running a lot of her races&#8211;including some turf events&#8211;in the long dirt division earlier in her career, before she finally returned to the dirt for good late last summer. She didn\u2019t start racing until she was three, and she hadn\u2019t turned in a speed figure higher than 105 until her latest start. And for some reason, she suddenly exploded, popping the highest speed figure of her career (111) while running second to Now Brown Cow in the 9.5 furlong Hulk Icing Dirt Mare Route on July 16. She\u2019s had a pretty long break since then and plenty of time to rest up for this bunch here on Saturday. She\u2019s 11\/1 in this spot, mostly because it\u2019s been a while (December of 2009) since she\u2019s run a dirt route race this short. She\u2019s shown quite a bit of early speed in her races, particularly last time out when she was no farther back than five lengths behind the leaders before staging a stretch rally that would see her fall a length shy of the winner in that stakes race in Illinois. She\u2019s only got one win this year and that one came back in February in the 14-furlong Wailing For Niner Memorial Stakes in New Hampshire. She\u2019ll be running quite a bit shorter than that here in the Pitcher Molly on Saturday, and it might take Got Lemons a while to acclimate herself back to these short route races. She\u2019s not a total outsider in this company, but she\u2019ll need a repeat performance of her last outing&#8211;speed numbers-wise&#8211;if she\u2019s to get a piece of the action here this weekend in New Jersey. <\/P><B><P>8 &#8212; SAN FRAN GOLD (KY)<\/B> Owner: Papracing Stables (papsstable)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>5\/1<\/B> (Giant&#8217;s Causeway (IRE) x Deputy Minister x Alydar)<\/P><P>You might remember San Fran Gold won the Black Middle Flower Stakes last season, just before Artemis And Apollo won the 2010 Chestnut Stakes. She\u2019s a four year old scratch-bred daughter of Giant\u2019s Causeway who has quite a few common races with some of these she\u2019ll be facing here in New Jersey on Saturday. She beat Artemis And Apollo earlier this season in the Grade 3 Azeri Breeder\u2019s Bowl before Artemis And Apollo turned the tables on her in the next start out in the Grade 1 Orange Blossom. Then a couple starts later&#8211;her last time out&#8211;she finished two lengths behind Darkest Days, the third place finisher in the Grade 1 Go For The Gold Stakes. She\u2019s very familiar with quite a few of these she\u2019ll be seeing here on Saturday. Four of her last five starts were all at 9 furlongs, and she only won one of those&#8211;the Grade 3 Route 66 Stakes. She came right back after that race and scored a pretty nice win in the 8.5 furlong Grade 2 Maryland Distaff. She\u2019ll absolutely love getting back to the 8.5 furlongs she\u2019ll see in the Pitcher Molly on Saturday. San Fran Gold, who is ranked number nine in the older females dirt classic division, has got the speed numbers to run with this bunch, as she\u2019s shown quite a few times in her 22 starts that have banked nearly $800,000 for her owner, Papracing Stables. This barn is clipping along at nearly a 20 percent strike rate in the win column, and their horses have finished in the money nearly 48 percent of the time. So when you see one of theirs in a race like this, you can pretty much bet this barn means business. Her highest speed figures this season have been 113 and 112, which puts her right up there with this bunch. What we like most about San Fran Gold is the fact that she\u2019s got pretty versatile running styles. She can lay close to the early pace, or come from a bit farther back, and that versatility will bode well for her here in this spot. She\u2019s one to keep a close eye on, because if this one is on her game, she\u2019s one you\u2019ll want to take very seriously. Four career graded wins makes her very dangerous here in New Jersey on Saturday.<\/P><B><P>9 &#8212; RED SMARTY (KY) <\/B>Owner: Shaghar Stables &#8216;Keeping the Dream Alive&#8217; (shagsnags)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>8\/1<\/B> (A.P. Indy x Live And Let Lie (Smarty Jones x Storm Cat))<BR><\/P><P>Red Smarty is ranked number 22 in the older females dirt sprint division. Her owner is rolling the dice here, when this lightly raced daughter of A.P. Indy takes a dive into the deep end against this bunch when she runs the first route race of her career here on Saturday in New Jersey. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how this one plays out. The longest she\u2019s ever run is 7.5 furlongs, when she finished seventh in the Grade 3 Narrowly Missed Stakes in her first start of the year back in January. Red Smarty, who is out of the Smarty Jones mare Live And Let Lie, certainly has the pedigree to run the distance she\u2019ll see here this weekend, and she\u2019s got the speed figures to run with this bunch. Will the extra furlong here on Saturday matter much? Probably not. Will the competition she\u2019s running against matter much? Probably so. This is a pretty tough bunch she\u2019s facing here, including a couple of Triple Tiara winners in San Fran Gold and Artemis And Apollo. It\u2019s surprising that Red Smarty hasn\u2019t tried the middle distances earlier in her career, really, especially with this pedigree. Will she show a lot of early speed against this bunch and try to wire them? That\u2019s the question. If that sprint experience helps her burst out of the gates quickly and get a big lead on this field, the 8.5 furlongs might not make a difference at all to her chances&#8211;especially if she gets far enough out in front and anyone in this field tries to engage her early. They could get burned out getting involved in a speed duel early with Red Smarty . We\u2019ll see Saturday if she belongs here. But it would not be a big surprise at all&#8211;especially with this pedigree&#8211;if Red Smarty would try to wire this field. There isn\u2019t a whole lot of legitimate early speed in this race filled with stalkers and deep closers. And if Red Smarty gets way out in front early, a catch-me-if-you-can scenario could develop where they don\u2019t catch her at all. <\/P><B><P>10 &#8212; ARTEMIS AND APOLLO (IRE) <\/B>Owner: Simply&#8230;&#8230;..SUPER! (2tohold)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>5\/2<\/B> (Montjeu (Ire) x Box Of Pain (Kingmambo x Pleasant Colony))<BR><\/P><P>Almost a year ago, Artemis And Apollo won the Grade 1 New Jersey Oaks right here on this very same track she\u2019ll be running on Saturday. The winner of the 2010 Chesnut Stakes threw what equaled the second highest speed figure (113) of her career in winning the New Jersey Oaks. In fact, in all her races since May of last year, she\u2019s run 100-plus speed figures, bar one. The ultra-consistent Irish-bred daughter of Montjeu from the Kingmambo mare Box Of Pain has been in splendid form this year after her stellar three year old campaign last season. She\u2019s coming off a win in the Grade 2 Clemente out west in California, one of four graded stakes wins she\u2019s had this year in her eight starts. She popped a 113 speed figure in winning the Clemente, too. She also scored wins in the Grade 3 Sabian Handicap, the Grade 1 Orange Blossom and the Grade 2 Golfer\u2019s Wager. And she\u2019s a length and a quarter from having added two more graded stakes wins this year, having finished second (by half a length) in the Grade 3 Cubic Zirconia Path Stakes and then third (by \u00be of a length) in the Grade 3 Azeri Breeder\u2019s Bowl. All of those races, except for the Grade 3 Sabian Handicap, were at 8.5 furlongs, the distance she\u2019ll see here Saturday in New Jersey. She loves this distance, she\u2019s won over this track, and she\u2019ll be extremely tough here in The Pitcher Molly on Saturday. She\u2019ll probably be laying about mid-pack before she pounces late here. That\u2019s been her way most of her career, and if they let her have her way this weekend in New Jersey, this could very easily be her fifth graded win in nine starts this year. Did we mention she\u2019s ranked second in the older female dirt classic route division? Our bad. She is, and she\u2019ll be looking to improve on that ranking Saturday. She\u2019s a very serious candidate for an Eclipse Award in her division, especially if she keeps rolling the way she has been.<\/P><B><P>11 \u2013 VIMSHA (SAF)<\/B> Owner: Ivan y Juan Racing Complex (eljosco)<\/P><P>Odds: <B>6\/1<\/B> (King Of Kings (Ire) x Electra (A.P. Indy x Danzig))<BR><\/P><P>Vimsha is a five year old South African bred daughter of King Of Kings who was claimed for $20,000 by Ivan Y Juan Racing Complex a couple seasons ago after the early part of a career that was pretty much up and down, bouncing from dirt to turf and back to dirt before being claimed. She\u2019s a daughter of the A.P Indy mare Electra, and she\u2019s turned into quite a nice runner for this stable. She has yet to win a graded stakes race in her 39 career starts. She\u2018s raced mostly in allowance company this season, although she has taken a dip in the graded pool twice this year, with her best finish being a third place this season in the 8.5 furlong Grade 2 Fort Lostinthewoods Stakes. She equaled the highest speed figure of her career (109) in that effort, and she showed a lot of early speed in that race. Don\u2019t let the fact that this mare has no graded wins fool you. She\u2019s been throwing some pretty nice speed numbers around lately. She\u2019s been out of the money only twice in her eight 2010 starts. One of those was down in South America last time out in the Grade 3 Chubby Visa Stakes in Argentina where she ran a pretty even race in finishing seventh. She probably has more starts than any in this Pitcher Molly field, and she\u2019ll be looking to turn that experience into her first graded win. Let\u2019s not forget her speed figures this year. She\u2019s a late-developing type who just keeps getting better, and she\u2019ll be on her toes for this bunch. Keep an eye on her, especially if she pops out of the gate quickly and gets involved early here. The rest of the field might have a lot of trouble with this one come Saturday.<\/P><\/SPAN><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010 Chestnut Stakes Champ Artemis And Apollo Favored<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"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-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}