Dynamic Pricing seeks to add to Spa success in Listed Perfect Sting

Klaravich Stables’ Grade 1-winner Dynamic Pricing will turn back in distance in Friday’s Listed $150,000 Perfect Sting, a one-mile inner turf test featuring a stacked field of 10 older fillies and mares, at Saratoga Race Course.

Trained by five-time Eclipse Award-winner Chad Brown, the 4-year-old Night of Thunder bay boasts a perfect in-the-money record of 3-2-0-1 this year topped by wins in the 1 1/16-mile Grade 3 Beaugay in May at Belmont at the Big A and the one-mile Grade 1 Just a Game presented by Resolute Racing in June over yielding footing during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga.

Last out, Dynamic Pricing [post 5, Dylan Davis, 124 pounds] stretched out to nine-furlongs in the Spa’s Grade 1 Dunkin’ Diana and landed a 4 1/2-length third to stablemate Excellent Truth over the yielding going. The runner-up of that event, She Feels Pretty, returned to win the Grade 1 E. P. Taylor at Woodbine.

Brown said the cutback should suit Dynamic Pricing.

“I think so. She's better with pace and it's a big field. She's training well,” Brown said.

Dynamic Pricing, who made the grade in last year’s Grade 2 Edgewood at Churchill Downs, was a three-quarter length third in her only other local start in last summer’s Grade 2 Lake Placid won by stablemate Grayosh by a neck over the aforementioned She Feels Pretty.

Bred in Ireland by Epona Bloodstock, Dynamic Pricing was a $204,442 purchase from Book 1 of the 2022 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. 

Trainer Miguel Clement will saddle Les Reys [post 7, Joel Rosario, 120 pounds] as he looks to add to his significant stakes haul at this meet.

Clement, who took over the stable from his late father Christophe in late May, has enjoyed stakes success this summer with Deterministic [G1 FanDuel Fourstardave], Far Bridge [G2 Bowling Green], La Mehana [G2 Glens Falls] and Ozara [G2 Ballston Spa, Listed De La Rose].

West Point Thoroughbreds, Peter Leidel and Winters Equine’s Les Reys was last seen finishing a one-length fourth in a division of the Listed De La Rose on Opening Day July 10 here while racing from a more than nine-month layoff.

The Penny’s Picnic 4-year-old began her career in her native France with conditioner Didier Guillemin, capturing 3-of-7 starts, including the Prix Volterra last June at Longchamp. 

She then moved stateside to the Christophe Clement barn and immediately won the Listed Winter Memories in September by a half-length over Ori with Dynamic Pricing in third.

Les Reys completed her sophomore season with a 2 3/4-length fifth in the Grade 3 Valley View in October at Keeneland.

Clement said returning Hall of Fame jockey Joel Rosario holds the key to success in this event.

“She's been training forwardly here at Saratoga and has an explosive turn of foot. She has a very short but explosive turn of foot, so Joel has to time it just right,” Clement said.

Patricia Moseley’s Kentucky homebred Proctor Street [post 6, Irad Ortiz, Jr., 120 pounds] will look to maintain a perfect record on the Saratoga turf for trainer Brendan Walsh.

The 4-year-old Street Sense dark bay raced three times as a sophomore, including a last-to-first nose score here last July in an optional-claimer that runner-up Grayosh exited to win the local Grade 2 Lake Placid. She completed her campaign with a prominent 2 1/4-length fifth in the Listed Winter Memories in September at Belmont at the Big A.

She returned to action in June at Churchill Downs with a 2 3/4-length second to multiple graded stakes-placed Vive Veuve, who exited that event to win a well-rated optional-claimer here.

Proctor Street made her second start off the layoff a winning one with a last-to-first score in a July 24 optional-claimer here traveling 1 1/16-miles over firm Mellon turf, closing from last-of-7 to win by two lengths over Grade 3-winner Tax Implications. The winning effort registered a career-best 90 Beyer Speed Figure.

Proctor Street is out of the multiple graded stakes-winning Walsh-trained Moseley homebred Proctor’s Ledge, who won three graded events as part of an 18-5-4-1 record, including back-to-back wins in 2017 in the Grade 3 Lake George and Grade 2 Lake Placid.

Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher will send out Shadwell Stable’s Grade 3-winner Raqiya [post 2, Flavien Prat, 124 pounds], who will look to improve from an off-the-board effort last out in the Grade 3 Beaugay which came from a three-month layoff since a fifth in the 1 1/16-mile Grade 2 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational on January 25 at Gulfstream Park. 

The Irish-bred Raqiya launched her career in England with trainer Owen Burrows, earning victories last year in the seven-furlong Group 3 Oak Tree at Goodwood when elevated to first and versus males in the six-furlong Listed Cathedral at Salisbury. 

She captured the Grade 3 Goldikova in frontrunning fashion in her stateside debut in November at Del Mar and was transferred to Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher for her next outing in the Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf where she landed fifth as the mutuel favorite.

Trainer Graham Motion will send out The Estate of Albert Frassetto’s Group 2-placed Ribaltagaia [post 9, Junior Alvarado, 120 pounds] in search of a first North American win.

The 4-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Blame, a $40,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase subsequently sold for $292,409 at the 2023 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, launched her career in France with trainer Gianluca Bietolini. She graduated on debut in September 2023 at Lyon-Parilly and went on to capture the Listed Prix des Lilas last May at Chantilly ahead of a 3 1/2-length third in the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham there one month later in a race won by Sparkling Plenty, who captured the Group 1 French Oaks in her next outing.

Ribaltagaia was a prominent 3 1/4-length fifth in the Group 1 Prix Rothschild last July at Deauville and two starts later her European adventure came to a close at long odds with an off-the-board effort in the Group 1 Prix de la Foret at Longchamp.

She closed from ninth-of-10 to finish a 1 1/4-length fourth in her stateside debut for Motion in the Grade 3 Suwanee River in December at Gulfstream Park – a race won by Be Your Best, who subsequently won the Grade 2 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf there.

A talented field also includes dual Group 1-placed A Lilac Rolla [post 4, Jose Lezcano, 124 pounds] for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott; Our Pretty Woman [post 10, Frankie Dettori, 120 pounds], who is Grade 1-placed on dirt and makes her turf debut for Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen; multiple stakes-placed Vino Rouge [post 3, Manny Franco, 120 pounds] for conditioner Anthony Dutrow; stakes-placed Zadorsky [post 1, John Velazquez, 120 pounds] for trainer Whit Beckman; and seven-time winner New Rome [post 8, Ricardo Santana, Jr.] for trainer Jena Antonucci. St. Benedicts Prep is entered for the main-track only.

The Perfect Sting is slated as Race 11 on Friday’s 12-race card which also features the Listed $150,000 Bernard Baruch in Race 3. First post is 12:35 p.m. Eastern.

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