Y15 October Week Three

[Kenren]

KISS YOUR TITLE STAKES*
WIN Limited Edition (nose)
PLACE Nightshade (1.5 lengths)
SHOW In Front
fourth Battle Wings
fifth Reflected in Water

It's hard to pick apart a strong field like this, but it's that time of the year when the elites begin to meet and even the strong fall short. Limited Edition grabbed this one in a stretch duel after an impressive closing kick. There was nothing more than a head bob between them. I felt that In Front was strong enough to put away the two mares, but the top two had too much power on him this time around. Battle Wings and Reflected in Water are both lovely mares, but they didn't stand as strongly to me in this field.

[creativecause]

COX PLATE* - G3+ 9F T 4yo+
Win: Call Of The Wild (nose)
Place: Abastor (2 lenths)
Show: Handsome Tabby (head)
4th: Divided Notion

The pace of this race was pretty quick and that played a lot into Call Of The Wild's advantage. He sat about three lengths off the lead the whole race then ran three wide and charged down the middle of the track and got into a stretch dual for the ages with Abastor, who very nearly won this. Handsome Tabby faded a bit after the quicker pace but he wasn't too far behind and was always giving chase. Ripley, I hated placing Divided Notion here but the others have been running in horse of the year company for the majority of the year and Divided Notion needed a race like this to get his feet wet if he's going to the BC. I think he'll come back from this. 
Overall very nice horses guys, I believe this may be half of the BC turf field