SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – First fate and then Mother Nature helped make Miss Interpret a stakes winner Thursday for the ownership group of Starladies Racing and Glen Hill Farm and trainer Todd Pletcher. Miss Interpret, entered for the main track only, sat a perfect trip behind dueling leaders Sail By and Let’s Be Clear and persevered past that pair to win the off-the-turf, $120,000 P.G. Johnson Stakes for 2-year-old fillies by 1 1/2 lengths at Saratoga. Let’s Be Clear nosed out Sail By for second. Runaway Breeze finished last. That Miss Interpret is even owned by Starladies and Glen Hill is a tale in itself. Agent Frankie Brothers, on behalf of Starladies, was supposed to bid on Hip No. 36, a bay filly by Ghostzapper. But after getting outbid on a colt a few hips earlier, Brothers said he got distracted and wound up bidding on Hip No. 35, a bay filly by Street Sense. The bidding stopped at $100,000 when Brothers realized he bought the wrong filly. “I could have backed out, but I didn’t,” Brothers said. “I figured I bought myself a filly. Todd said ‘I’ll get you out of the trap.’ ” A partnership was quickly formed between Starladies Racing and Craig Bernick’s Glen Hill Farm. Bothers, by the way, also purchased the Ghostzapper filly for $220,000. That one, Brothers said, is still on the farm in Ocala, Fla. :: DRF’s Labor Day Sale: Save big on DRF Formulator Past Performances, Picks, Clocker Reports, Betting Strategies, and DRF+ Pro. Limited time only. Meanwhile, Miss Interpret, who lost her first two starts, won for the second straight race and became a stakes winner with residual value following the P.G. Johnson. About a half-inch of rain fell in Saratoga Wednesday, prompting officials to move all six scheduled turf races to the dirt. The P.G. Johnson was originally scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on turf, but was run at seven furlongs on dirt. Pletcher said he had planned to enter Miss Interpret on Friday morning in Sunday’s Grade 1 Spinaway – where she most likely would have been a longshot – when he got word this race would be run on dirt. In this four-horse field, Miss Interpret was the 3-5 favorite. Under Jose Ortiz, Miss Interpret sat third behind Sail By, who was pressed by Let’s Be Clear, who had stumbled at the start. The pace was pedestrian, a quarter in 24.43 seconds and a half-mile in 47.68. Ortiz had Miss Interpret within two lengths turning for home. He switched the filly to the outside and she gradually wore down the front-runners. Miss Interpret covered the seven furlongs over a fast track in 1:24.80 and returned $3.50. :: Visit DRF's Saratoga shop for all your handicapping needs: Past performances, picks, Clocker Reports, Betting Strategies, and more “We needed to stay close, we anticipated [Let’s Be Clear] being on the lead, and I think she stumbled leaving there and it kind of changed the complexion of the first eighth a little bit,” Pletcher said. “Jose was able to get in the position we wanted, and she kept on wearing them down.” Brothers, who was in the winner’s circle Thursday, could only laugh at his good fortune. “There’s no rhyme or reason for this game here,” Brothers said. “I was just hoping to be third.”