BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:47 pm Scylla (Tapit x Close Hatches), full sister to Tacitus, just won the the 6th at Keeneland in impressive fashion. The Mott-trained bay filly would seem bred to prefer longer, but she mowed down a nice field of 3yo fillies in this 6-furlong MSW on the dirt, and won going away.
https://www.drf.com/news/breakout-beyer ... -keenelandWow debut from the younger full sister to the mercurial Tacitus. This filly could really be special, and her performance, to me, greatly exceeded her Beyer Speed Figure. Figures that take ground loss into account will like the race even better since Scylla was parked four to five paths wide around the turn. This came after she started a half-beat slow and raced through traffic during the early stages. The rider was asking her a bit to go up to a narrow gap between rivals approaching the half-mile pole, but that spot closed and the jockey swung to the far outside, at which point Scylla finally started showing what she had. Despite racing widest she passed several rivals – and passed them with alacrity – going past the three-furlong pole, and after a fifth furlong in 11.79, she finished things off with a final furlong in 11.95. That was a 23.74 final quarter mile while running straight as a string and hitting the wire full of run. She’s the third foal to start from an excellent racemare, and the sky’s the limit for this homebred.
