Maiden Special Weight

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LIBERATION bumped leaving the gate, stalked the top pair in the three path, challenged three deep late on the bend, dueled with SHADY STRIPES into the final furlong, seized control midstretch and drove clear late. SHADY STRIPES away quickest then dueled inside STILL UNWRITTEN for early supremacy, vied with outer pair past the quarter pole, carried a short lead into the final furlong dueling with LIBERATION, lost command outside the sixteenth pole, yielded to the winner but was clearly second best. STILL UNWRITTEN brushed leaving the gate, went up to duel from outside, fought between rivals with a quarter mile remaining, yielded while drifting inward at the top of the lane, drifted back out in the furlong grounds and saved third. THAT AIN'T RIGHT fractious in the gate, hit the gate, chased from off the pace two wide into the turn, ran into traffic behind LOVE OF THE NILE near the three-eighths pole, chased two wide into the lane, kept trying down the lane but could not get by STILL UNWRITTEN for third. LOVE OF THE NILE chased from inside leaving the backstretch, lugged out around the bend and weakened. LADY VICTORIA brushed with outer rival and lost her path at the start, traveled near the back well off the inside, navigated the turn five to six wide and failed to menace. SMILING CARMEN stumbled leaving the gate, tried to gain up the rail on the turn but got put in tight and steadied at the five-sixteenths pole, continued along the fence to the lane and failed to threaten. BELLA CHAVELA became fractious in the gate, chased outside rivals early, went four wide into the turn, got floated to the five path then angled back in some, spun three wide into the lane and weakened.