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Our Khrysty noses out Funny Moon in 'Alarm
Manitoba Miss couldn't sustain her pace and faded nearing the turn, allowing Miss Match to briefly take command. It wasn't long, though, before Funny Moon ranged up to her outside, with Our Khrysty suddenly appearing in the four path. Funny Moon and Our Khrysty hooked up entering the lane and battled it out through the stretch, with the winner just getting in front when it mattered to finish 1 1/16 miles on the fast track in 1:42 1/5. "She had a troublesome break, which cost her to an extent in the beginning," Beattie said. "But Ramon got her to settle in, make a nice ground-saving run around the turn, and then rode the hair off her coming for home. She obviously likes Belmont and the big turns, and runs well here. "She's been troublesome because of her unruliness, but Ramon and the big track have helped her plenty," he admitted. "She's finally getting her ducks in order." Our Khrysty paid $5.40, $2.70 and $2.20 while Funny Moon was worth $2.40 and $2.20 to fill out the $11.40 exacta. It was another 4 3/4 lengths back to Way With Words, who was easily best of the rest while finishing 5 1/2 lengths in front of Banker's Buy (Distorted Humor). Show was worth $3 as the 9-2 third pick and ended the $35.40 trifecta. The 9-1-5-2 superfecta gave back $97. Nicksappealinglady (Successful Appeal), Miss Match, My Dinah (Victory Gallop) and Manitoba Miss completed the order under the wire after Awesome Maria (Maria's Mon) was withdrawn following a fourth-place run in Friday's Topicount S. The Nellie Bly wasn't Our Khrysty's first stakes win; that came in the 2008 Alison McClay overnight stakes at Penn National. The four-year-old chestnut has also placed in five other black-type events during her career, including the Sleigh Ride S. and Day Lilly S. this season, and now boasts a 17-6-5-1 line to go along with $283,260 in lifetime earnings. Our Khrysty passed through the sales ring three times -- bringing $3,500 as a Keeneland November weanling, selling for $6,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale and going for $25,000 as a Fasig-Tipton Midlantic two-year-old. Out of the dual stakes-placed The Hess Express (Lord Carson), she is a half-sister to last year's Whitney H. (G1) king Bullsbay (Tiznow) and Colleen S. victress Hidden Expression (Yonaguska) as well as an unnamed yearling filly by Lawyer Ron and a Hard Spun weanling colt. The Hess Express is herself a daughter of multiple stakes-placed Turcomedy (Turkoman). This is the same family as Grade 1-winning millionaire Grecian Flight (Cormorant), Grade 2 heroine Bel Air Beauty (Smart Strike) and Grade 3 victress Anklet (Wild Again).
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