Peyton’s Pass, Carmalley Chrome meet again in Swingley Memorial
The girls in the Linda Swingley Memorial look stronger than the boys in the Jim Elliott Memorial, the two heavily restricted Indiana-bred stakes on Saturday at Indiana Grand.
The fillies’ race, the seventh, drew the first- and third-place finishers from the Swifty Sired Stakes on May 25 at Indiana Grand, Peyton’s Pass and Carmalley Chrome. The Swifty Sired was a six-furlong spring, and Saturday’s race is a two-turn mile, and it’s Carmalley Chrome who has the route experience among the two likely betting choices. Carmalley Chrome shot to the front and easily won an Indiana-bred allowance mile on May 22, though there is the question of how much racing this filly can take, with Saturday’s start being her fourth since her career debut April 27.
Peyton’s Pass has gone no farther than six furlongs in her four races, but she’s by Pass Rush and out of a Pine Bluff mare and is bred to stay the mile. She sat comfortably in a stalking spot as Carmalley Chrome dueled on the lead in the Swifty Sired, and that ability to relax should serve her well in her first route try.
There is no established two-turn dirt form in the Jim Elliott. The shipper Its About the Cat has won around two bends on turf at Lone Star, but he might not be nearly as good on dirt and is a bet-against at anything like his 7-5 morning-line price. Justice for Themob flopped in his lone route try last season but went to the sidelines after that start and might be more capable around two turns than the lone performance suggests. If not Justice for Themob, Givemeyourbestshot and Easy Doer are the alternatives to the underpriced favorite.