It’s Tricky is the favourite with a bad mind, but she looks good in the Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Parx Racing
The Grade 2 Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Parx Racing, Philadelphia Park, has reeled in some mighty fine fillies, with the likes of the multiple grade 1 winner, It’s Tricky, and her archrival, Plum Pretty, and because of these two, the race is already shaping
up to be a mouth watering encounter.
Apart from the two, Daring Reality, Halo Dolly and the Todd Pletcher duo, Love and Pride and Grade 1 Mother Goose winner, Buster’s Ready, are among the contestants.
Fitz Dixon Cotillion is run over a distance of 1 1/16 miles on dirt, and the race is for 3-year-old fillies, to be held on 1 October, 2011.
The Godolphin owned and Kiaran McLaughlin owned It’s Tricky is expected to do well in the race, especially after her last two performances where the 3-year-old filly won the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga, and the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes
also at Saratoga.
Jockey E Castro accompanied the filly in her two triumphs, and after those wins she has put herself in the 3-year-old filly championship conversation.
It’s Tricky has been on vans before, but this time around it is for the first time that the daughter of Mineshaft, will be shipped into a race on such a short notice.
The filly is a handful and trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said, “She is Tricky and she is named properly”.
The filly is very good on the field, but it’s the mundane stud that she struggles with.
When she won the Coaching Club American Oaks, she ejected her rider Eddie Castro from the saddle, and that is not the first incident.
It’s Tricky will be accompanied by a trusted filly, and has a luxury of a security blanket on her trip so she doesn’t injure herself during her travels.
However, It’s Tricky would have one eye on the rematch with her bitter rival Plum Pretty, who It’s Tricky defeated in the Coaching Club American Oaks, but the 1 1/16 miles of the Fitz Dixon Cotillion should suit It’s Tricky more than Plum Pretty.
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