Plum Pretty and It’s Tricky in strife yet again in the Grade 2 Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Parx Racing
The two 3-year-old fillies, Plum Pretty and It’s Tricky, did some battling of their own in the Saratoga Summer meet, where they met twice in two back to back races, and will meet again in the Grade 2, $750,000 Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Parx Racing, Philadelphia
Park, on 1 October, 2011.
The Kiaran McLaughlin trained It’s Tricky and the Bob Baffert trained Plum Pretty will be the headliners among the six sophomore fillies entered in the 1st October Parx Racing feature.
The two met in the 2011 Saratoga meet, and it is safe to say that It’s Tricky must have come out of the meet with her head held up high as she won the first encounter on 23 July, 2011, in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks.
Over a distance of 1 1/8 miles, three powerful fillies locked horns with each other, with Royal Delta posing the main threat.
It’s Tricky, under E Castro, and Plum Pretty, under jockey Martin Garcia, took on the field of 5 fillies, but it was prominent from the beginning that it will be a two filly race.
Buster’s Ready and Joyful Victory were also in the mix, but Plum Pretty and Royal Delta got it going on in the early part of the race.
The daughter of Mineshaft, coming off a grade 1 victory, blasted past third and fourth filly to join the protagonists.
When the field turned for home, It’s Tricky made some crucial movements to set herself for the final burst, and that’s exactly what she did as she spurted past Royal Delta and after a brief duel with her adversary, Plum Pretty, It’s Tricky hit the wire in
1 minute and 49.15 seconds.
The second meeting in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes turned out be between Royal Delta and It’s Tricky, where Royal Delta bounced back emphatically from her third place finish behind Plum Pretty and It’s Tricky to finish first in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes at
about 1 ¼ miles at Saratoga.
The Fitz Dixon Cotillion also reeled in Daring Reality, Halo Dolly, Love and Pride and Buster’s Ready to complete the line-up.
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