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Wasted Tears fights to keep streak alive in Mabee
While Gotta Have Her couldn't quite bring herself to thread the needle, Lilly Fa Pootz appeared to have all the momentum in the stretch. Wasted Tears kept responding to her challenge, and Lilly Fa Pootz for her part kept throwing more at the leader. The margin was vanishing between them as they reached the wire, but Wasted Tears made sure that her nose stayed in front, and she just carried her speed over the added ground. After completing the nine-furlong feature in 1:47 1/5 on the firm turf, Wasted Tears paid $4.20, $3.40 and $2.40. "She showed her usual early speed, then just plugged her way around there," Maragh said. "She ran her race. I was really happy with this win. "She got tested, truly tested. And it made her show her determination. I thought I'd won it at the wire, but I knew it was close. They were on both sides (of me) and they pushed her harder. She just wants to win, this mare. She'll do whatever it takes to win." "You never know how things are going to work out," Evans said. "That's why they run the races. I wasn't sure I was the winner until I saw the photo. We weren't sure about the distance, and she had never raced beyond a mile and a sixteenth. So you don't know what the last sixteenth is going to be like." Lilly Fa Pootz, overlooked at 12-1 despite her recent victory in the Osunitas S. over the course, rewarded her loyalists with payouts of $8.20 and $3.60. "She ran really good," Joel Rosario said of the near-miss runner-up. "I couldn't ask more of her. I thought I might get there, but that other filly wouldn't let me get by. She just kept pushing. My filly was all heart, but today the other one got it." Gotta Have Her checked in a half-length adrift of the runner-up and yielded $2.40 to show as the nearly 7-2 second choice. "Oh, man, I just didn't know," said new rider Mike Smith, agonizing about Gotta Have Her's reluctance to punch through on the rail. "She put the brakes on me. She just wouldn't go up in there. There was room and I was going, but she just wouldn't go." The $1 exotics were worth $15.40 (exacta), $41.40 (trifecta) and $261.50 (1-2-4-6 superfecta) with the 15-1 Princess Haya (Street Cry [Ire]) 1 1/2 lengths away in fourth. Turning Top (Ire) (Pivotal) reported home fifth, followed by Gozzip Girl (Dynaformer) and Spring Style. Oui Say Oui (Ire) (Royal Applause [GB]) was withdrawn.
Produced by the stakes-winning Wishes and Roses (Greinton [GB]), Wasted Tears is a half-sister to stakes victors Wishingitwas (Sandpit [Brz]) and Almost Certain (Favorite Trick), as well as an unraced juvenile colt named If Ever (Thunder Gulch). Wishes and Roses is herself a half-sibling to Grade 3 heroine Bully Bones (Hesabull) and Irish listed winner Approvance (With Approval). Wasted Tears' fifth dam is the noted matron The Garden Club (*Herbager). To list only one line of descent from her, she is the dam of Grade 2 victress Up the Flagpole (Hoist the Flag), who in turn produced Broodmare of the Year Prospectors Delite (Mr. Prospector), the dam of Horse of the Year Mineshaft (A.P. Indy). Evans isn't tempted by the prospect of the November 5 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) at Churchill Downs. "I don't think we'll want to go to the Breeders' Cup," the horseman said. "That's a European-style race -- a mile and three-eighths. That time of the year in Kentucky, you can't tell what you're going to get. Maybe some rain and then it comes up soft. That's a long race."
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