The Girls Stakes Saturday at Aqueduct incorporates a discipline of 5 within the distaff division, with three of the group getting into the race following wins of their most up-to-date races. Three of these 4 are graded stakes winners, led by current Grade 3 Go For Wand Stakes winner Tizzy within the Sky. Julia Shining gained the Grade 2 Demoiselle Stakes within the fall of 2022 and is again in prime kind with a win final month following six months away from the races. Comparative gained the Grade 3 Bayakoa Stakes final February however has been uncompetitive in three begins since, together with ending fifth behind Tizzy within the Sky within the Go For Wand final month. Evidencias gained the Turnback the Alarm Stakes in November and seems to suit nicely on this group. Simply Music completes the sphere, with a file of three wins and 7 runner-up finishes in 16 races. She is making her first begin in a stakes race.
Important win contenders:
Tizzy within the Sky loves operating on dust at Aqueduct, the place she has gained 5 instances in eight races. Extra importantly, on the 1 1/8-mile distance of the Girls Stakes, Tizzy within the Sky has three wins and one second-place end in 4 races. Probably the most consultant of these efforts got here within the practically similar Turnback the Alarm Stakes in November of 2023 and within the Prime Flight Invitational Stakes final April. Within the Turnback the Alarm, Tizzy within the Sky led from the beginning and was crushed only a neck on the end, incomes a profession greatest 107 Equibase Pace Determine within the course of. Within the Prime Flight, Tizzy within the Sky gained by 9 lengths after main from begin to end in a discipline of 5 underneath jockey Kendrick Carmouche, who rides her within the Girls Stakes. After that victory, Tizzy within the Sky ran within the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes, the place she was not solely overmatched however broke by way of the beginning gate earlier than the race. Then after being reloaded, she lunged on the gate because the race began and broke on prime, however was no match for 2 of one of the best females within the division in Randomized and Idiomatic. After a break of six months, Tizzy within the Sky returned to the races within the one-mile Go for Wand Stakes, the place she stalked the pacesetter in second for the first-half mile after which took over to win extra simply than the half-length margin suggests. The 102 determine she earned may be very prone to be improved upon markedly in her second begin off the prolonged layoff. She drew the rail within the Girls Stakes, and it’s extremely seemingly Carmouche will permit Tizzy within the Sky to make use of her pure early pace and get the lead from the beginning, the place she ought to be capable of efficiently play “come catch me” with the remainder of the sphere en path to her sixth profession win.
Julia Shining was very extremely regarded when debuting within the fall of 2022, being a daughter of champion Dreaming of Julia. She didn’t disappoint her backers when she simply gained her first begin, nor did she in her second begin in December of that yr when she took the Demoiselle Stakes at Aqueduct on the distance of the Girls Stakes. Issues didn’t go as deliberate after that, as Julia Shining misplaced seven in a row by way of this previous Might, though she was defeated by only a nostril on the wire within the Comely Stakes within the fall of 2023, incomes a then career-best 102 determine. Following a poor fourth-place effort in Might of this yr, Julia Shining was given six months off. Returning on the similar one-mile journey on Aqueduct’s monitor as Tizzy within the Sky ran within the Go For Wand six days later, Julia Shining earned a career-best 103 determine when she impressively gained an allowance non-obligatory claiming race. That places her on a sample to run in addition to Tizzy within the Sky in Saturday’s discipline supplied she will keep in vary of that possible early chief and shut within the stretch as she did final month when going from 1 ½ lengths again with an eighth of a mile to run to three ¼ lengths forward on the end.
The remainder of the sphere, with their greatest Equibase Pace Figures, is Comparative (103), Evidencias (95) and Simply Music (91).
Win Contenders:
Tizzy within the Sky
Julia Shining
