OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The connections of Fast Market were slow to figure out exactly what their filly wanted to do, and now that they have, they hope to end the 3-year-old filly’s season with a stakes victory in Sunday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Pebbles at Aqueduct. The Pebbles, which goes as race 3, and the $150,000 Forever Together for older females in race 7, are the final two turf stakes to be run on this circuit in 2025. Turf racing altogether has only one more week, if that, remaining. Fast Market was tried on dirt, short and long, and turf, short and in a stakes going long before she finally broke through with a maiden win going one mile here Sept. 21. She followed that with a good second, beaten a neck by Ready for Candy – who was winning her third straight race – in the Grade 2 Sands Point on Oct. 18. Both of those races for Fast Market came with the removal of blinkers by trainer John Terranova. “She’s got a big turn of foot, we always saw that,” Terranova said. “We’re now using her talent where it’s meant to be. Thankfully, she’s very classy, great mind, big, strong, sound filly and she let us get away with making a lot of mistakes.” :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Speaking specifically of the runner-up finish in the Sands Point, Terranova said, “She switched off beautifully into no real heavy pace and ran against a quality field.” In the Sands Point, at 1 1/8 miles, Fast Market finished ahead of Paradise City, who set the pace that day. Paradise City, who finished second to Ready for Candy in the Winter Memories at one mile, and It Ain’t Two, who stretches out after a sixth-place finish in the six-furlong Grade 3 Glen Cove Stakes, look to be the potential speed horses in the Pebbles, run at one mile. Trainer Graham Motion supplemented Correto to the Pebbles when it looked like a short field was likely. Correto was third in the Miss Grillo here last year and did finish third behind Vixen in the Sweetest Chant in February at Gulfstream. Correto got injured after that race and finished fourth in a first-level allowance on Oct. 24 at Keeneland. Love You Anyway, who finished third in that same allowance race, also is entered in the Pebbles. Trainer Chad Brown has won a record six runnings of the Pebbles and missed a seventh when Oversubscribed finished second in the race last year. Sunday, he sends out Peak Hype coming off a first-level allowance win here Oct. 3. “I do think a mile is a good distance for her, a mile or a mile and a sixteenth with pace, but it’s a short field so we’ll have to see,” Brown said. Ricardo Santana Jr. rides Peak Hype from the outside post. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.