Garden City G1

[Pedigree Ann]

"The most important thing in racing is THE GROUND." So say the lads at the sportinglife audio feed. Chaibia's best races have been on heavy and soft ground and/or longer distances. She is likely to find the pace and distance a bit too sharp for her here, IMHO. La Mottie is a lower level racer than Chaibia and has never run left-handed; but I'll admit that run against Red Evie (winner of a G1 filly/mare race in Ireland this morning) on gd/fm is a positive. May Night has been beaten repeatedly by Magnificent Song, and at the distance by Take the Ribbon (who also ran by Maxxe Arte in her maiden win).

I'm the Regret S and American Oaks as the best 3yo filly turf races this year. Wait A While is top of the class; Arravale's win in the Del Mar Oaks franks the form (she was 3rd in Am Oaks) so second in that race of Take the Ribbon looks good. Lady of Venice came out of her Regret win to run well with the best 9f older mares, and second-place Magnificent Song came back to win a G3 at Sar.