Jealous Girl to face a speedy 3-year-old filly contingent in the Victory Ride Stakes
This year’s edition of Grade 3 Victory Ride is packed with pace, 10 fillies ready to take the Saratoga field on 27 August, 2011. Three-year-old dark bay filly, Jealous Girl, will be leading the pack with 3 to 1 winning odds, making her the morning line favourite
to win the race.
The 2011 edition of the $100,000 Victory Ride has so much talent, and Bob Baffert who was taking Victory Ride Stakes for granted by entering A Z Warrior with a thought process that it will be a soft spot for his filly to start off after her long 5 ½ month
layoff moved Baffert to say “I should have run her in the Test.”
The race reeled in the likes of Treasure Beach, who set up the pace in the Grade 1 Test Stakes, falling behind to finish third, and also Hot Summer who recently won a Grade 3 race.
Along Jealous Girl is another stakes' winner, Maple Forest, who will make the Victory Ride Stakes' lot a contingent to be reckoned with.
Trained by Anthony Dutrow for owners, Dubb, Michael, Bethlehem Stables, Jealous Girl has been coming off tough races.
She has been battling it out wire to wire in the last four races, including breaking her maiden in her second attempt.
Since her maiden breaker early this year in February, Jealous Girl approached a handicap which she wrapped up comfortably at Parx Racing.
Then she placed in the biggest win of her short career at Delaware Park, where she devastated her opponents by 9 massive lengths on 29 July to win an optional claimer.
Watching the way Jealous Girl destroyed her foes at Delaware Park inspired trainer Anthony Dutrow and he decided to step up a notch by entering her in the $100,000 Femme Fatale Stakes.
Jealous Girl shell shocked the crowd and her rivals, when she turned the race on its head at Penn National when she left everybody way behind and won the race by 5 lengths.
The Victory Ride entrants will definitely test Jealous Girl with loads of pace. What’s left to see is who decides to go front in the beginning and who keeps off the pace.
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