Tu Endie Wei to set the pace and Dixie Strike to catch her in the Selene Stakes at Woodbine
The 3-year-old Brereton C. Jones homebred filly, Tu Endie Wei, is a real front wheeler and the speedy filly has shown it in the past that once she gains the lead, she is a difficult one to catch. No mistaking over how she is going to run in the Grade 3,
$250,000 Selene Stakes over the Woodbine race track’s poly track.
The 1 1/16 mile race has reeled in six, 3-year-old fillies, and the Selene Stakes is considered to be a major prep race for the Woodbine Oaks set to go underway on 3 June, 2012.
The questions still remains, that which closer in the field will have the legs to concede first and then in the home stretch reel the pace setter down to win the race.
In the field of six, Dixie Strike, the Ontario-bred has the ability to cut a pace setter, and she showed that in the Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs, when she appeared beaten until her final strides were so fast and long that she edged past the pace setter,
More Than Love, to beat her by a nose.
It is going to be a mouth watering encounter for sure, but Tu Endie Wei, has been in great form herself, and she is no More Than Love, because Reade Baker trained filly made sure in her last two starts that she don’t get caught.
Starting back in November last year, the Kentucky bred daughter of Johar, out of Indian Charlie mare Ms Cornstalk, Tu Endie Wei, reeled the field in the Glorious Song Stakes over at Woodbine’s poly track, and plugged away to win it in gate to wire fashion.
She did the same in her seasonal bow over six furlongs at Woodbine on 14 April, 2012, when she posted a front wheeling 5 ½ lengths victory over Casa Loma in second, with the winning time of 1 minute and 8.88 seconds.
Both her victories came over a distance of 6 and 7 furlongs, but this is a 1 1/16 mile race, and when ran over that kind of a distance last year at Keeneland in the Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes, she faltered and finished a distant seventh.
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