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The Grade 2, $175,000 Bessarabian Stakes at Woodbine drew a area of 14 fillies and mares, together with 9 earlier stakes winners. Our Flash Drive, who received the race in 2022, is again in search of a repeat victory. Moreover, the winner of the 2020 Bessarabian, Artie’s Princess, additionally was entered the race.
By way of current success on the stage, Spun Glass received the Grade 3 Ontario Style Stakes Offered by Tanqueray on the principle observe at Woodbine final month, beating 5 others who hope to enhance their fortunes. Able to Enterprise is amongst that group, having received the Grade 3 Seaway Stakes in September earlier than a sixth-place end within the Ontario Style. Loyalty was third behind Spun Glass within the Ontario Style and hopes to run in addition to she did this previous July when victorious within the Grade 3 Hendrie Stakes. Midnight Stroll has raced in Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania this yr, along with her finest effort coming in her most up-to-date begin when second within the Grade 2 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes. Each Miss Dracarys and Like to Store in the reduction of from two-turns to this one-turn race and have stakes-winning type, with Miss Dracarys having received the Grade 2 Dance Neatly Stakes in August and with Like to Store profitable the Toronto Cup Stakes in September. Superior Deal with was solely a half-length behind Spun Glass within the Ontario Style and should enhance sufficient to win, whereas Dolce Sopresa rides a two-race profitable streak (on turf) into this race. Time for an Angel received three races in a row this summer season earlier than a fourth-place effort in her first two-turn race within the Surprise The place Stakes on turf and may enhance on the in the reduction of in distance and a return to an all-weather observe. Equally, Owen’s Tour Information has received two races in a row on the Woodbine principal observe and would be the horse the remainder are chasing within the early phases as she likes to steer from the beginning. Accumulating Flatter received each the My Expensive Stakes and Wonderful Track Stakes in 2022 however has not completed within the prime three in any of her 4 begins this yr. Child No Worries’ finest end on the stage was when a distant third behind Our Flash Drive within the Grade 3 Whimsical Stakes in Might however she enters the race off a pointy win.
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Midnight Stroll will get an excellent outdoors publish for this seven-furlong journey which permits her and jockey Trevor McCarthy to keep away from any site visitors bother on the long term from the begin to the flip. She’s acquired a closing fashion which needs to be helpful as properly, as a result of each Owen’s Tour Information and Miss Dracarys seem to solely be able to profitable when main from the beginning, and since there are a selection of others who may wish to be very near the lead early, together with Accumulating Flatter (who added blinkers two races again). Getting back from a two-month layoff on Sept. 18 in the same Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes, Midnight Stroll rallied from sixth of seven with a quarter-mile to run, transferring up strongly and ending lower than a size behind the winner. Most significantly, that effort yielded a career-best, and area excessive, last-race 106 Equibase Velocity Determine that continued a sample of enchancment from 88 two races earlier than that, to 101 in her earlier race. Being a 4-year-old, Midnight Stroll can enhance once more and that makes her the one to beat on this yr’s Bessarabian Stakes.
Loyalty enters the race after main within the stretch within the Ontario Style Stakes final month then being outfinished by each Spun Glass and Superior Deal with. That effort got here after she was second within the stretch within the Presque Isle Masters however was out completed by the winner, in addition to Midnight Stroll and the third-place finisher when settling for fourth. Nonetheless, simply previous to that Loyalty ran her finest race of the season when racing in fourth within the early phases and drawing off by greater than two lengths on the finish. That effort earned a career-best 103 pace determine and I feel that effort is extra consultant of what we are able to anticipate within the Bessarabian. It is because the quick and contested early tempo on this area will enable jockey Kazushi Kimura to position Loyalty in fourth or fifth within the early phases, extra like she was within the Hendrie and fewer like she was in her two races since. With the dueling pacesetters and pressers tiring within the final eighth of a mile, Loyalty can transfer ahead and maybe earn her seventh profession win in her tenth profession race on the principle observe.
Spun Glass pulled off the upset at 27.60-1 odds within the Ontario Style Stakes final month however maybe that wasn’t the fluke it gave the impression to be on the time. She completed second within the Camptown Stakes (on turf) previous to that and was second or third in two different stakes on turf this season. In her solely different profession begin on the all-weather floor, Spun Glass received, then within the Ontario Style she took to the principle observe at Woodbine with aplomb, rallying from eighth of 9 to win with a career-best 101 pace determine, which seems to be repeatable as she will get an identical tempo setup for her late cost.
The remainder of the sphere (with finest Equibase Velocity Determine): Artie’s Princess (103), Superior Deal with (100). Child No Worries (97), Accumulating Flatter (86), Dolce Sopresa (93), Like to Cease (93), Miss Dracarys (104), Our Flash Drive (114), Owen’s Tour Information (99), Able to Enterprise (GB) (102) and Time for an Angel (85).
Win Contenders (in likelihood/desire order):
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