Over the last weeks, the Bitty Filly Troupe has been nothing if not frustrating.
Ashandarei did very nicely in her debut, finishing second to a Nalbone daughter of Trap with a 72 SF. She was only beaten a length and a quarter, and I, of course, went into her next start with high hopes for a maiden breaker. Especially considering the fact that the quality of the field she was facing was significantly less than in her first start.
Cue the buzzer. EEEH! Wrong. After a bad break and inexplicably shuffling from third to sixth between the 1st and 2nd calls, then getting the lead at the head of the stretch, Ash was beaten by a length by a filly that ran only a 71. *headdesk*
Itty Bitty Pretty broke her maiden first out, coming from well off the pace to win by a length and a quarter with a 73 SF. Since a 73 doesn't count for much nowadays, I sent her on to a NW2 that didn't look too tough two and a half weeks later. Pretty never fired. At all. She finished fourth, soundly trounced. The first two fillies across the wire in that race are super hot, no questions asked, but the third place filly beating Pretty is one of those scenarios that makes you go whaaaaat?
Sing Me Back Home still can't find the winner's circle, and likely won't in Friday's race, either. There aren't many options for a filly with her record that don't include a "stakes" somewhere in the name, so she's facing the boys in a race that turned up softer than its distaff counterpart. Oh and Jolene, if you read this, keep I Lurve You far, far away from Sin, please and thank you.
Sky Afire epically failed in the Born Wild Stakes. I expected to get beat by Ramey's crazy fast filly, but really, a 51 SF? That's just a little sad. A NW2 is up next for her this Friday and we'll see if she can regain a little dignity.
Leave A Whisper's race in week 12 was an enormous flop, too. After that very nice 75 for her first route race, I was definitely feeling good. After results, let's just say I'm never running her off two weeks again. A winner that ran a 78 (as opposed to the 80-something from her first race) and she finishes 4th with a 58? Ouch. Kudos to Alex on Plus though, that's a super nice pick up.
Awaken The Sun won again, though, taking a NW2 for three-year-old fillies by a length with a 73 SF. I still feel like she can do much better and that the equipment needs tweaked. She's running on Friday with a figure 8 in place of that shadow roll.
Prairie Moon did improve off her first start. She was second to Louise Bayou's very nice Cold Feat, who ran a 76, and beat a few nice fillies in the process.
She's Always Right closed from way out of it to get third in her allowance a week ago. The winner ran a 77, so I guess I can't be too disappointed.
We did pick up another three-year-old bitty filly: Head Over Feat. She's a daughter of Feat out of Apex. Yeah, that makes her a granddaughter of the great Northern Most. I bought her from AJ solely for that pedigree, but it's going to be nice if I can get her a win before I make her a broodmare. (Yeah, I know her dam is a flop as a broodmare...sue me for being excited to have some Northern Most blood in the barn!) She was third in her first start for me, so not too horrible.
Edziza worked fast for four furlongs in 46.24. She might make her debut at a mile next year.
And I can't decide what equipment to try on Diamond Eyed. Sheesh. If anyone is actually reading this, look at her works.
A few foals are the newest additions to the Bitty Filly Troupe, and I'm pretty excited about some of them:
Hedwig's daughter by Do Something is a black 15.2 filly and a full sister to a two-year-old colt named Do Everything, who worked in 59.08 and 1:10.50.
One of the first bitty fillies from the Sway female family is Dreamt A Dynasty's daughter by Just Victory. Her half brother by Thriller isn't too horrible (but not too good either), so I'm hoping to improve on him just to get another nice filly from this female family.
La Querida's daughter by Frayed is teeny. No joke, only 15 hands. I didn't even realize until after I'd bred her (and I mean well after) that she was bred on the same Frayed/Acapulco cross that produced Tattered. Awesomeness.
Another Feat filly! Beat of the Jungle's daughter is just purty. I love the Dreamit To Be Real female family, and I'm looking for a nice young representative. Hopefully this filly is it.
Here's an interesting pedigree: Wind In The Sage over Streamer. Sound familiar? Laura Cameron's Royal City is from the same cross - worked in sub :59 and won her route debut with a 75. The female family here is neat, too, since this filly's dam Its Okay To Wish is a granddaughter of Burning Hope.
I think I've mentioned Vulcanus Rex's, Tale of Victory's, and Bulova's daughters before, so I won't repeat.
On to week 14 Friday and hopefully some better results!
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