Queen Stakes, 6f Dirt

Purse $125.000 For Fillies And Mares Four Years Old And Upward

Turfway Park, Florence, KY

Wide open would be the term to properly describe the muddy waters of trying to pick the right horses signed up for this year’s Queen Stakes at Turfway Park. Whatever you do, a winning ticket, especially the exotic kind, should pay solid dividends. Let’s look outside first in Maxmillion Farm’s Sweet Dilemma. The five-year-old race mare switches back to the dirt here after three strong runs on turf. Arguably the sharpest recent form coming into this, again, arguably. One thing’s for sure, if it rains, she will be tough, if it doesn’t, she will need her best career dirt race to win, probably with a run and gun effort in here. Liable from Robeth is a four-year-old late running sprinter who might have found the perfect spot. She proved that she doesn’t carry the four-year-old jinx already by running second in a stakes race over this track in January. She handles dry or wet and will drop back early and make one run late. If you bet on her you will be praying that one of the other four-year-olds guns early to push “Dilemma” along. Breath Of The Threat from Winning Link Stables will take plenty of money at the windows based on her run two back in The Dream Supreme stakes. However, she then skipped action in December and came out in January to run third over this surface in a race where she should have dominated. Farm works since until a bullet on the fourth. Conflicting info to add to the overall mystery of this event. So Beautiful from Temulac Farm was purchased for $125,000 and looked to be a nice buy when she ran a fast closing third in the G1 La Brea in Arcadia. However, her lackluster effort to start her four-year-old campaign in The Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream Park is cause for more than a little concern. She looks like a textbook example of a four-year-old jinx horse, and she clearly adds more head scratching to this heat.

Of the rest:

My Pretty from Threshold draws the rail, has some gas and also has solid form coming in. I’m just not sold that at age six her recent dance partners make her form good enough to win this. Just seems to me that one of the already mentioned runners will get the job done over her.

Dianas Fury from DJC Racing Stables is a four-year-old who clearly wants a fast track. If she gets it she should be able to carve out a mid-pack position and might surprise a few here. A must use at the end of your exotics.

Memorabilia from TwinTowersRacing is a four-year-old that has never won sprinting and has no speed to speak of. On the positive side, she has matured to 16.1 hands in size and is tipping the scales at over 1250 lbs. Expect her to drop over to the rail into a trailing position and then either close like a freight train or never make a move. Toss of the coin as to which one happens.

-Trackman

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