Wiley – Grade I
KEE Race #3 1 1/16m Turf Graded Stake
Purse $600.000 For Fillies And Mares Four Years Old And Upward.

1 Perfectly Pink The Freakshow Ferrer J C 123 —

This six-year-old may be on a 7-race losing streak but we all know that at her best she could slip back into winning ways. There wasn’t much of a sign that that was about to happen in her last start in allowance company, but we all know how fickle the form can be at HRP and anything like the form that saw her thrash the field in the grade one NY last year would be good enough to put her in the race. Let’s not forget that she made up a ton of ground to be third in the BC Fillies and Mares last year so write her off at your peril.

2 Perfect Class Sccj Stables Gutierrez Mario 123 —

I would venture to say that her run into the BC last year was one of the best strings of form i have seen at HRP and she certainly deserved the handle of super filly after winning seven of her nine races and amassing over $3,000.000 in one season. One run does not make a champion so one run shouldn’t write one off so let’s just ignore her first start of the year when stuck wide in the Pegasus and watch a real HRP champ come back to her brilliant best.

3 Demanding Commander Mb Stables Lopez P 123 —

It must be nice to go out and buy a horse for a race and that looks like what happened with this four-year-old who was acquired just a week ago by Mb Stables. She looked pretty special when winning the FG Oaks by six lengths last year on a wet track and could it be that somehow the trainer foresaw some rain this weekend and threw the filly in this race without really getting to know her? Well even Mb can’t control the weather but if by some miracle they did, I could see this filly extending her wet track record to four from four. If it doesn’t rain, well the new trainer’s name may be enough to beat a field of horses that is as good as any we have seen this year.

4 La Terrifiant Smokey Stover Dettori L 123 —

What can you say that hasn’t already been said about this great eight-year-old. A legend of the game she has now won $8.300.000 and is still good enough that I feel the trainer won’t give up on her until she has hit the $10,000.000 mark. Beaten two lengths when second in the BC to Perfect Class last year she is of course a BC champion herself and proved that age is no barrier when winning the Buena Vista last time. I guess at the age of eight her racing time is limited but you would be a brave person to say she can’t win this.

5 Fangs Of The Storm Arindel Saez L 123 —

The quality of this field just doesn’t not let up as we come to a mare that has been near the top for a while now. I guess a wet track would be to her advantage as her best wins have come with moisture but her gutsy win in the Fox last time proves she can run on the dry and we know she has the ability of things go her way. She won’t be regarded as the best one in the race but on her day, she is as good as any of them.

6 Time And Again TwinTowersRacing Jaramillo E 123 —

Well, this horse on the bulk of her form would look to be up against it at this level but it wasn’t long ago she was causing a shock in winning the grade one QE II and though her form since has been pretty poor you cannot tell a horse from this stable, she is not good enough. Her works may not be the best but given the conditions that she won the Queen Elizabeth (a crazy early pace) and she may just be shocking the big guns again.

7 Classic Princess Maxmillion Farm Hernandez R M 123 —

Here’s an in-form mare that hails from the turf kings stable so write her off at your peril. Just a half-length behind La Terrifiant last time she had won two stakes race before that and is consistency personified. On the face of it she doesn’t have the wow factor that horses like Perfect Class have but we know she will run an honest race and sometimes that is the safe bet.

8 Painville Mo Mentum Farm Velazquez J R 123 —

Last but certainly not least we have a five-year-old who started a run of wins at lowly TUP and ended five wins later with a dead heat with none other than La Terrifiant in the Buena Vista Last time. Remarkably for an apparent random draw she gets the widest draw for the fourth time in a row, the sort of odds I would like to hit in Vegas, but if she makes it six in a row today, I think we will have seen the 2023 BC Fillies and Mares winner.

SUMMARY

Well Perfect Class gets the chance to get back to the top today, but she doesn’t face an easy task with the great La Terrifiant and the fast-improving Painville in the lineup. I guess you have to say Perfect Class on just how dominant she was last year, but I really like where Painville is going, and she may be the upset if there is one.

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