Optional Claiming

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JUST PRAY broke out bumping the outside runner on the break, seized control dictating the pace along the backside, quickened the tempo unopposed through the turn, shifted just off the fence in command at the top of the stretch, kept finding more when urged down the lane and just held on from the late charging rivals outside for the win at the wire. MIRAMICHI tracked the leader on the rail down the back straight, moved comfortably inside another having the fence just behind the pacesetter waiting for the cue to go on the turn, tried to shift out from behind the frontrunner down the lane but could not do so with another challenger outside holding firm battling for the lead as well, finally got a clear run with seven yards to go and surged late but missed with the late burst at the finish line between foes. I GOT MURPHED was content to track the leader outside in the early stages, had aim on the frontrunner three wide outside a rival straightening out for the drive, dueled stubbornly holding her own down the stretch gaining gradually with a furlong to go but could not get there in time narrowly losing the three way photo for the top two placings at the wire. SIL'S GAMBLE had the rail position part of the rear threesome down the backside, moved in closer taking the short way around the turn still waiting for the rider to give the signal to go, angled out three wide looking for a seam in upper stretch but was shuffled back losing position, shifted back to the fence by the eighth pole having a clear run inside for the final furlong and finished with interest to get up to win the battle for the minors in the end. TABEI stalked between horses in the back trio in the beginning, edged up well in hand between foes in the two path at the three eighths pole, shifted out five with two furlongs from home and ran on mildly losing the duel for a minor placing in deep stretch. UNHEARD was bumped on the inside on the start trailing three deep in the beginning, improved slightly in the three path between horses by midturn, shifted out to the six path in the mix for a piece of the prize in mid-stretch by had little left late when fading outside runners in the final sixteenth of a mile. GOOD AS GONE was in midfield going four deep along the backside, kept pace outside others but was doing so going five wide around rivals through the bend, swung out widest in the seven path at the quarter pole but had nothing to offer using up too much energy taking the overland route on the turn. MY CASH FACTOR travelled in the middle of the pack in the three path between foes down the backside, watched the front three rivals while four wide still with challengers on either side in the turn running, was urged for more but was backing up at the five sixteenths pole and had no finish to give four wide down the lane.