BY BROCK SHERIDAN
Stakes-placed at a mile at Prairie Meadows last year, Florida-bred Tremont Tammy tries for her first black-type victory Friday over the same track in the $50,000 Panthers Overnight Stakes for six 3-year-old fillies racing a mile.
Tremont Tammy has won two of her three starts at Prairie Meadows, including a length-and-a-half score in her last race on May 15. The Jon Arnett-trained daughter of Maclean’s Music broke last of seven going five-and-a-half furlongs in a first level allowance, but jockey Orlando Mojica was able send her four-wide on the turn and get the lead a furlong out.
She won a maiden special weight on debut at Prairie Meadows in August before finishing third in the $81,000 Bison Stride Mile in September. Tremont Tammy was unsuccessful in two starts at Tampa Bay Downs over the winter, finishing ninth in the $102,000 Sandpiper in December and fifth in the $100,000 Suncoast in February.
Tremont Tammy is out of the Tapit mare Southern Girl and was bred in Florida by Bridlewood Farm. She has earned $51,960 in her five starts for John Ballantyne’s NBS Stable, who bought her for $180,000 at the 2024 Keeneland September Sale.
Mojica has the return mount on Tremont Tammy from post three and they are the 7-2 third choice on the morning line.
Favored in the program at 9-5 is Grace Is Free, winner of the $50,000 Goldfinch Stakes going six furlongs at Prairie Meadows last out on May 15.
Grace Is Free is trained by Gene Jacquot for Dreamchaser Thorobreds and looks for her third stakes victory this year having also won the $150,000 Mockingbird at Oaklawn Park in January. In three other starts this year at Oaklawn, she was off the board in both the $300,000 Martha Washington in February and in the Grade 3 Honeybee in March, before finishing second in the $200,000 Valley of Vapors going a mile there on April 18.
Grace Is Free has earnings of $201,460 from three wins and second in eight starts.
She is by American Freedom and will be ridden from post one by Alex Birzer, who rode her last out in the Goldfinch.
Also set for the Panthers are Go to Girl with Glenn Corbett riding, More Carats with Walter De La Cruz in the saddle, Forbidden Lover and jockey Ronnie Huckaby and Elvin Gonzalez has the call on Song of Songs.
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