Startwithsilver necks Yorkiepoo Princess in Correction

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A year after Sounds Delicious finished first and stablemate Startwithsilver was third in the $100,000 Correction Stakes, the script was flipped Saturday in the 79th renewal of the sprint race for female sprinters at Aqueduct.

Startwithsilver, under Junior Alvarado, rallied down the center of the main track and outfinished Yorkiepoo Princess to win the Correction by a neck.

Yorkiepoo Princess finished 1 1/4 lengths clear of Sounds Delicious. Trainer Linda Rice not only trained the first- and third-place finishers, she also trained fourth- and fifth-place finishers Sower and Honor Way. Filibustin, the pace-setting longshot, finished last in the six-horse field.

The win was the seventh from 21 career starts for Startwithsilver, a 6-year-old daughter of Jump Start owned by Sheila Rosenblum and Irish Smith. She increased her purse earnings to $412,059.

Last year, Sounds Delicious was able to wire the field in the Correction while Startwithsilver could only rally from eighth to be third.

On Saturday, Startwithsilver was coming off a fifth-place finish to another stablemate, Holiday Disguise, in the Broadway here Feb. 16. That was her first start off a seven-month layoff.

While Rice expected Startwithsilver to improve with that run, the Correction also appeared to set up for that mare’s late-running style.

Filibustin, under Kendrick Carmouche, shot to the lead from the outside post and ran an opening quarter in 22.64 with Sower, the 9-5 favorite, stalking her. Sounds Delicious made it three in a line after a half-mile in 46.28 seconds.

Yorkiepoo Princess, under Dylan Davis, was sitting in fourth and went four-wide in the lane. Alvarado, who saved ground around the turn, tipped to the far outside in the stretch. Sounds Delicious, under Manny Franco, had a brief lead inside the eighth pole, but Startwithsilver and Yorkiepoo Princess rallied by her with Startwithsilver getting the better of Yorkiepoo Princess late.

“She likes to run on the outside, I tried to come between horses before and it has never worked out,” Alvarado said. “I tried to stay in the second or third path the whole way around. When I started picking it up I had to make sure she had to be in the clear. She started picking it up, I was trying to time it right because sometimes she gets to the lead and she starts wandering.”

Startwithsilver covered the six furlongs in 1:11.19 and returned $7.70 as the second choice.

“The last race when I ran her I had her 80 percent ready, she ran decent,” Rice said. “I knew she was ready today. I thought we might have a wet track and she loves a wet track. We didn’t get it, but I was pretty impressed with her to win on a dry track the way she did; those were some pretty nice fillies.”

In what could have been the final performance of her career, Yorkiepoo Princess ran a terrific race to be second.

“She tries so damn hard, you now,” trainer Eddie Barker said. “Too good to lose."

Barker and owner Danny Chen said they would make a decision soon whether Yorkiepoo Princess will continue racing or be bred. Yorkiepoo Princess, a four-time stakes winner, has a record of 6-3-2 from 22 starts with career earnings of $482,327.