Fast Market stock rising before G3 Pebbles

Hit The Bid Racing Stable’s Fast Market has been on the improve and seeks a breakthrough score in Sunday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Pebbles, a one-mile inner turf test for sophomore fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Trained by John Terranova, the Volatile bay enters from a closing second in the nine-furlong Grade 2 Sands Point on October 18 at Belmont at the Big A. There, Fast Market closed under Samuel Marin in tandem with the victorious Ready for Candy, who would not let her by in the lane and prevailed by a neck. 

“That was a fantastic effort,” Terranova said. “We were really proud of her. She has finally figured out what she wants to do and what types of races. In terms of distance, she’ll run a mile to a mile and an eighth, but overall, she has just really matured and is moving forward for us.” 

Fast Market went off at odds of 7-1 in the Sands Point following a ninth-out graduation over Sunday’s course and distance on September 21. There, Fast Market, running with blinkers off, closed to a 2 1/4-length victory under returning rider Dylan Davis. She earned an 82 Beyer Speed Figure for the maiden win versus elders, which she improved to a career and field-best 85 in her last-out second. 

“Blinkers off was one of the things we figured out,” Terranova said. “She is a talented filly, it just took a little while to figure everything out with her. Thankfully, she cooperated. Mentally, physically, everything about her is solid and classy.”

Fast Market [post 5, Dylan Davis] has started nine times this year among her 10-1-3-1 overall record, competing at distances ranging from 5 1/2 furlongs to nine furlongs. 

“She broke her maiden at one mile and did that really well, so this is no problem, a mile probably suits her,” said Terranova. “Her optimal distance is hard to say, it all depends on pace, turf condition, all the things like that. We aren’t sure what is her best, but we certainly aren’t afraid of a mile.”

Bred in Kentucky by Breed First, Fast Market, a $350,000 purchase at the 2024 OBS June Sale of 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age, is out of the winning Street Cry mare Betty Draper, a half-sister to multiple stakes-winner Modern. Her second dam, Interior Design, is a full-sister to 2001 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Tempera. 

C Two Racing Stable, Shining Stables, Paul Braverman and Timothy Pinch’s Paradise City [post 1, Manny Franco] set the pace in the Sands Point and faded to a 3 3/4-length fifth in the lane. Trained by Saffie Joseph, Jr., who captured the Pebbles last year with No Mo Candy, the McKinzie bay previously rallied to miss by a nose to Ready for Candy in the Grade 3 Winter Memories over course and distance on September 20. 

Paradise City’s aforementioned efforts represent her only starts on turf among 11 career outings. She is dual stakes-placed on dirt and her last win came on that surface in a 1 1/16-mile January optional claimer at Gulfstream Park. 

Bred in Kentucky by Don Alberto Corporation, Paradise City, a $105,000 purchase at the 2024 OBS June Sale of 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age, is out of the Grade 2-winning Yankee Gentleman mare Washington Bridge.

Five time-Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will send out e Five Racing Thoroughbreds’ Peak Hype [post 6, Ricardo Santana, Jr.]. The More Than Ready dark bay enters from a rallying 1 1/16-mile local allowance score versus elders on October 4 under returning rider Ricardo Santana, Jr. 

Peak Hype steps into stakes company for the first time in her fifth outing, her 4-2-0-0 record also including a second-out graduation versus elders going 1 1/16 miles in August at Saratoga. Bred in Kentucky by Sun Valley Farm and More Than Ready Syndicate, Peak Hype, a $320,000 purchase at the 2022 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, is out of the unraced Nyquist mare Toyger, a half-sister to Grade 3-winner Thatlookonyerface.

Brown has won this event a record six times, including with Partisan Politics [2015], Rubilinda [2017], Stella di Camelot [2018], Blowout [2019], Faith in Humanity [2022] and Implicated [2023]. 

Rounding out the field is Grade 2-placed Correto [post 3, Jaime Rodriguez] for conditioner Graham Motion; Grade 3-placed It Ain’t Two [post 2, John Velazquez] for trainer Riley Mott; and maiden-winner Love You Anyway [post 4, Jose Lezcano] for conditioner Rusty Arnold. 

The Pebbles is slated as Race 3 on Sunday’s nine-race card, which co-features the $150,000 Forever Together in Race 7. First post is 12:10 p.m. Eastern.

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