Sherine strolls in East View

Zayat Stables' SHERINE (Precise End) took a bad stumble at the break in

Sunday's $83,375

East

View S. for New York-breds, but that inauspicious beginning didn't derail

the 4-5 favorite at Aqueduct. Regrouping rapidly beneath Alan Garcia, the Tony

Dutrow pupil led the way through an opening quarter in :24 and never looked

back. After clocking :49 for the half-mile, Sherine widened her advantage

through splits of 1:14 2/5 and 1:40 2/5. With a seven-length lead in midstretch,

Garcia allowed her to stroll in the final yards. The dark bay juvenile had 3 3/4

lengths to spare at the wire while completing 1 1/16 miles on the fast inner

dirt in 1:47 1/5. Sherine paid $3.60, $2.60 and $2.10 and keyed the $6.90

exacta, $50 trifecta and $184 superfecta (2-5-1-9).

"She stumbled a little bit at the break, but once she got the lead, she was

so comfortable," Garcia said. "She's one of my favorites. I've been aboard her

for all three of her wins now."

"She's a great filly to be around," assistant trainer Phil Scott said. "She

comes over here and does her job. She always gives you 100 percent."

Meriwether Jessica (Freud) raced in second throughout and kept on gamely even

though the winner had flown the coop. The runner-up finished four lengths clear

of The Material Girl (Songandaprayer), who was trailed by Say Toba Sandy (Say

Florida Sandy), Deities Day (Buddha), Yet Again (Catienus) and My Stormy Elaine

(Stormy Atlantic). Glitter Express (Western Expression) was eased, and Jovanna (Minardi)

was withdrawn.

Sherine's first stakes victory advanced her record to 6-3-0-2 and boosted her

bankroll to $129,007. Switched to the turf in her second start, she romped by 6

1/2 lengths in a state-bred maiden at Saratoga. The dark bay tackled

open-company males next time out in the With Anticipation S. and finished a

commendable third, beaten three lengths by eventual Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf

winner Nownownow (Whywhywhy). After a fifth-place effort in the grassy Miss

Grillo S., Sherine reverted to a state-bred dirt sprint and won for fun by 11

1/4 lengths. The East View was her first attempt at a dirt route.

Bred in the Empire State by Sez Who Thoroughbreds, Sherine was an $85,000

purchase as a two-year-old in training at the OBS February Sale. She is out of

the unraced Red Ransom mare Willa Dear, whose youngest offspring is an unnamed

yearling filly by Friends Lake. This is the family of Action This Day (Kris S.),

the champion juvenile male of 2003.

In other Sunday stakes action at Aqueduct, Albert Fried Jr.'s homebred LIGHT

TACTIC (Tactical Cat) rallied along the inside en route to a 3 1/2-length score

in the $78,000

Personal Bid S. Trained by Richard Schosberg and ridden by Ramon Dominguez,

the gray sophomore finished the six-furlong state-bred event in 1:13. The 8-5

choice gave back $5.40, $3.30 and $2.80 while spearheading exotics worth $16.20

(exacta) and $101.50 (9-1-2 trifecta).

The pacesetter Brown Eyed Belle (Storm Boot), who enjoyed a daylight lead

through fractions of :23 2/5 and :46 4/5, salvaged second by a neck from Sunset

Cocktail (Precise End).

Light Tactic captured her first two career starts easily, but she failed to

handle the class hike into stakes company when fading to seventh in the Iroquois

H. on New York Showcase Day. She rebounded in convincing fashion here,

increasing her earnings to $113,900 from her 4-3-0-0 line.

Out of the stakes-placed Light the Lamp (Mt. Livermore), Light Tactic has an

unraced juvenile half-sister named Hennessy Light (Hennessy), an unnamed

yearling half-brother by Silver Deputy and a weanling half-sister by Dehere.