Oscar Performance Filly Play With Fire Burns The Turf In the Hilltop

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Fergus Galvin's PLAY WITH FIRE (f, 3, Oscar Performance–Streaming Fire, by Street Sense) was produced widest into the Pimlico stretch and steamed down the center of the rain-affected turf course to take out Friday's Hilltop Stakes. Off as the 7-2 second choice in a field scratched down to eight when Complexity Jane (Complexity) dumped jockey Sheldon Russell in the preliminaries, the $85,000 OBS March graduate was content to drop out to the back of the field and was shuffled all the way to last as favored Me Governor (The Factor) took them along at a leisurely clip. Following the move of her stablemate Sigh No More (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) while still quietly ridden approaching the quarter pole, the Minnesota-bred Play With Fire came wide and whooshed home to easily account for Pretty Lavish (Ire) (Ribchester {Ire}). Princess Attitude (Frankel {GB}) enjoyed the run of the race from third and was first to put Me Governor to the sword in the stretch, but lacked the necessary finish and settled for some black-type in third. Play With Fire is the 15th stakes winner for her Mill Ridge-based stallion. Sales history: $85,000 2yo '24 OBSMAR. Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-1. O-Fergus Galvin; B-Lothenbach Stables Inc (MN); T-Brendan Walsh.

 

PLAY WITH FIRE ($9.00) wins the $125,000 Hilltop Stakes at @PimlicoRC. This is the first stakes win for the three-year-old filly by @MillRidgeFarm's Oscar Performance. Flavien Prat was in the irons for @brenpwalsh. pic.twitter.com/YXnrMUZV2J

— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) May 16, 2025

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