Six Speedy Females of the Week for Mar. 9 -16

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6. NEXT GIRL, CNL, 3/12, Allowance, 1 1-16 miles (video)
Beyer Speed Figure-91
(m, 5, by Divining Rod–Fleet and Fancy, by Touch Gold)
O-WWCD. B-Country Life Farm and Fleet and Fancy (Md). T-W. Robert Bailes. J-Jeiron Barbosa.
WWCD partners Konrad Wayson and Wade Meadows bought Next Girl as a weanling for $20,000 and have campaigned her through 28 starts and 8 wins, with this 3 1/2-length allowance romp as the high point. Her two best races have come on wet footing, but she'll surely never again encounter conditions like she saw Thursday at Colonial: heavy snow obscured the field from the start until she emerged with a six-length lead in upper stretch.

 

5. PASSAGE EAST, CNL, 3/14, Sandy Bottom Stakes, 1 mile  (video)
Beyer Speed Figure- 93 (3rd)
(f, 4, by Audible–Salten Sapity, by Congrats)
O-Larry E. Rabold. B-Don Alberto Corporation (Ky). T-Hugh McMahon. J-Sheldon Russell.
She wasn't left at the gate but did herself no favors with a slightly sluggish beginning that immediately had at the rear of the five-horse field and a couple lengths farther back than usual. In midstretch she looked like she might win, anyway, because that's what she does–she came into the Sandy Bottom with eight wins in her last nine starts–but then she couldn't quite match strides late with Chasten and Her Laugh (below).

 

4. HER LAUGH, CNL, 3/14, Sandy Bottom Stakes, 1 mile  (video)
Beyer Speed Figure-94 (2nd)
(f, 4, by Practical Joke–Truth Goddess, by Point of Entry)
O-Grantley Acres, Pantofel Stable, Wachtel Stable and Gary Barber. B-Grantley Acres (Ky). T-Riley Mott. J-John Velazquez.
Her Laugh hasn't won since capturing the Untapable Stakes at Fair Grounds more than a year ago, and trainer Riley Mott conceded that lately he's been “throwing her to the wolves.”  But she actually ran a winning race in defeat in an easier stakes spot at Colonial, racing much closer to the pace under John Velazquez and battling gamely with Chasten (below) only to come up a half-length shy.

 

3. GOODALL, OP, 3/14, Purple Martin Stakes, 6 furlongs (video)
Beyer Speed Figure- 94
(f, 3, by Yaupon–Moon Over Mag Bay, by Malibu Moon)
O-Spendthrift Farm. B-Mark Toothacre and Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt (Ky). T-Steve Asmussen. J-Erik Asmussen.
Goodall didn't monkey around in stamping herself as a horse to watch in the 3-year-old filly sprint division with this emphatic 4 1/2-length score over odds-on River Wind, herself a promising talent. Yaupon is an ascending young sire, and while dam Moon Over Mag Bay was a lousy racehorse, her pedigree page may soon get an upgrade: she's a half-sister to Cherokee Nation, the Bob Baffert trainee whose powerful maiden win makes him one of the favorites for the upcoming GI Santa Anita Derby.

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2. MYTHICAL, GP, 3/14, Any Limit Stakes, 6 furlongs (video)
Beyer Speed Figure- 94
(f, 3, by St Patrick's Day–Lailoni, by Brethren)
O/B-Arindel (Fla). T-Jorge Delgado. J-Edgard Zayas.
Last summer at Saratoga, then-unbeaten Mythical threw in a head-scratching clunker in the GI Spinaway Stakes but immediately bounced back with two stakes wins at Gulfstream. Then came another sluggish no-show in the Jan. 31 GIII Forward Gal. “I think she's going to bounce back again,” trainer Delgado said. And he was right: the Arindel homebred sped to a convincing two-length victory in a stakes-record 1:09.40 and career-high Beyer. The competition was softer, but she was also better.

 

1. CHASTEN, CNL, 3/14, Sandy Bottom Stakes, 1 mile (video)
Beyer Speed Figure- 95
(f, 4, by Into Mischief–Lockdown, by First Defence)
O/B-Juddmonte (Ky). T-Brad Cox. J-Cristian Torres.
For a half-sister to two-time Eclipse champion Idiomatic by Into Mischief, Chasten had been an underachiever to this point. But does this leap to stakes winner and career-best 95 Beyer Speed Figure represent a step forward that can be sustained or will it be a one-off? At first glance the number seems surprising, since Chasten and runnerup Her Laugh (above) both improved sharply to new tops. But even over a lightning-fast Colonial strip, her mile in 1:33.40 warranted the figure –older stakes males the race before went in 1:33.57.

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