Feathered tars rivals in Edgewood

Quality Rocks was 2 3/4 lengths to the good of third-placer Lady Zuzu (Dynaformer).

B Rockett (After Market) got up for fourth. French import My Year Is a Day

(King's Best), the 2-1 second choice in her U.S. debut, was rank when held up

off the pace and wound up fifth of seven.

With this first stakes score to her credit, Feathered has compiled a mark of

8-2-2-1, $400,974. The bay was among the top two-year-old fillies last season. A

9 3/4-length maiden winner second time out at Saratoga, she was third in a

sloppy Frizette (G1), a close fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1)

and a near-miss second to champion Take Charge Brandi (Giant's Causeway) in the

Starlet (G1). But Feathered didn't build on that resume in her first two outings

this campaign, finishing fourth in a March 6 Gulfstream Park allowance and

seventh in the April 4 Fantasy (G3).

Feathered was a logical candidate to try turf, as a daughter of the

stakes-placed Dynaformer mare Receipt. Her second dam is multiple Grade 1

victress Finder's Fee (Storm Cat). Her third dam, Grade 1 winner Fantastic Find

(Mr. Prospector), is ancestress of such turf veterans as Grade 2 hero T.D. Vance

(Rahy) and multiple Grade 3 victor Optimizer (English Channel), who runs in

Saturday's Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (G1).

"She has the size and shape of a filly that might get over the turf well. And

pedigree like that, it just made sense to run her here," Pletcher said.

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