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Silverinyourpocket relished her return to the dirt
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Mr. & Mrs. R. David Randal's homebred SILVERINYOURPOCKET (Silver Deputy)
was the beneficiary of a rail-skimming ride from jockey Calvin Borel to take
Saturday's $182,850
La
Troienne S. (G3) at Churchill Downs. The Helen Pitts charge rallied up the
inside to post a half-length victory in the 7 1/2-furlong test, stopping the
clock in 1:30 over the fast dirt.
Appealing Zophie (Successful Appeal), favored at 9-5, moved up to take the
lead, setting splits of :22 2/5, :45 1/5 and 1:10 while closely tracked by
Time's Mistress (Mr. Greeley). In the stretch, those two began
backing up as their rivals moved into contention. Silverinyourpocket, settled
next to last in the early running, came storming up the rail to take over late,
easily holding Suaveness (Suave Prospect) to second.
Sent off the 9-2 second pick, Silverinyourpocket gave back $11.60, $5.60 and
$4.20 while keying the $225.40 exacta and $1,523.80 trifecta. Suaveness was the
22-1 eighth choice in the field of 10, returning $15.40 and $8.40 for holding
Upcoming Story (Tale of the Cat), who was never far back of the pacesetters
early, to third by 1 1/4 lengths. Show paid $4.80 and it was another length back
to Looky Yonder (Johannesburg), who completed the $12,277.20 superfecta
(3-11-1-9). Next under the line were Time's Mistress, Appealing Zophie, Pro Pink
(Touch Gold), Tessa Blue (Awesome Again), Tensas Yucatan (Ide) and Total (Forest
Wildcat). Mostbeautifulstorm (Storm Boot) was scratched.
Silverinyourpocket earned her first stakes score with this one, and is now
undefeated on the dirt from three starts. She made her two starts prior to this
race on the Polytrack at Turfway Park and Keeneland, finishing off the board in
those two stakes tries, but returned to her favored surface here to push her
earnings to $171,503 and improve her line to 5-3-0-0.
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