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Originally Posted by Balletto
Speaking of Shug trained fillies... I always heard Matlatcha Pass was one of the fastest horses the Phipps ever had... "freakishly fast" is what I was told. But she was also one of their most unsound horses. She only raced 3 times... in a sad point to that unsoundness, Matlacha Pass is/was the dam of the ill-fated Pine Island.
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She was a bullet.
I get her debut, however, confused ( I think ) with Our Country Hideaway, who I believe won by the length of the stretch in 1:22 and piece in her first start.
I'm reasonably sure I was at Belmont for both of their debuts.