Starter Optional Claiming

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COOL SOCIETY was off the pace and two wide into the turn with one beat, dropped in to the fence and followed the eventual place finisher into the stretch, stayed on the rail while that one went out looking for a seam and that was the difference, getting through inside and up between to best that one in the final forty yards. LUCKY GIRASOL came out and bumped a rival at the start and settled off the pace along the rail, angled out turning for home and shifted into the four path, closed determinedly on the pace survivor and got by along with the winner to her inside, outkicked by that one late. MAKE NO MISTAKE went to the lead and was stalked and pressed by a rival until putting that one away and clearing off in the stretch, caught in the final forty yards by two closers with perfect trips. FACTORING broke awkwardly and was pinballed between rivals at the start, in behind a wall of runners chasing the duelers down the backside, beside the eventual place finisher on the turn but came out into the five path in upper stretch and closed mildly to best the rest. THE GOOD WITCH chased the duelers inside rivals down the backside, still in behind the leaders turning for home but could not sustain a bid and stalled at the sixteenth pole. PINO IN A PURSE bumped by a rival at the start, was between runners chasing down the backside and on the turn, but could only muster a mild close down the lane without threatening. VALLEY GIRL took back from between rivals chasing the early leaders, circled three to five wide on the turn and floated out into the eight path down the lane, a minor close all she could muster far outside. ANITA GRIGIO sat wide in midpack early, came three wide on the turn and out in the six path in upper stretch, inching up late without entering contention. CRUMLIN TIME trailed and was two to three wide on the turn, only able to pass one tiring foe late. NORTHERN RUBY stalked and pressed the leader until the stretch when she got weary of her task and retreated.