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Trackside Farm and Tenlane Farm’s Life Begins
won the first race of her career in her fifth lifetime start
Sunday, drawing off for a 2 1/4 length victory in the stretch run of
Fair Grounds’ $47,000 feature for maiden fillies and mares after
alternating for the early lead with splits of 26.62
and 51.61.
Ridden by
Jamie Theriot, the Mike Stidham
trainee toured the about 7 1/2-furlong distance over a Stall-Wilson
turf course rated “good” in 1:35.56 and increased her career earnings
to $39,523 while returning mutuels of $7.80, $4.40 and $3.40.
Liz Squyres’
Snow Kissed, unhurried early, rallied to be clearly second best, finishing 1 1/4-lengths to the good of Joseph Hickman and Dennis Farkas’s
Little Egypt while no threat to the winner.
Snow Kissed paid $3.60 and $3, while Little Egypt returned $4.40.