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Bluegrass Series for three-year-old trotting fillies
 Impressive Kemp stalked cover for driver Ron Pierce before setting sail
in deep stretch and scoring a 1:54.3 victory in her $70,500 division of
Bluegrass Series.
The Noel Daley student watched Glide Power (Brian Sears) cruise past the
quarter pole in :28.4 before passing the baton to Bramalea Hanover (Tim
Tetrick) in the backstretch. Once in charge of the tempo, Bramalea Hanover
rolled by the next two junctures in :57 and 1:26. Poof Shes Gone (David
Miller) applied first over heat on the leader, with Impressive Kemp sitting
on that O’Brien Award winner’s back. Pierce sat chilly behind Impressive
Kemp, who kicked her way to the lead and drew away from Poof Shes Gone and
Glide Power in a career-best clocking of 1:54.3. Last weekend’s winner of
the Kentucky Filly Futurity, race favourite Fashion Feline (Dave Palone),
broke at the start and finished last in the seven-filly field.
Impressive Kemp, a daughter of Credit Winner-Emilie Cas El, went 1-for-4
as a freshman while banking just over $47,000. Her victory in the Bluegrass
Series improved her sophomore record to 7-3-0 in 17 starts while pushing
this year’s earnings to $445,326. She is owned by Jean Cloutier of
Stanstead, QC.
 Bar Slide took her $70,500 division in gate-to-wire fashion for driver
Tim Tetrick and trainer Joe Holloway.
The Yankee Glide-Marla Bar miss hustled the field through fractions of
:28.2, :57.3 and 1:27.2 before uncorking a :28-second final frame en route
to the 1:55.2 decision. Race favourite Ultimate Cameron (John Campbell), who
sat a pocket trip until the mid-way point of the far turn, made a brief bid
to go after the lead before leveling off and finishing second.
Sweetspellosuccess (Brian Sears) finished third.
The victory was the fifth of the 2010 campaign and the eighth lifetime
tally for Bar Slide, who has built up a $648,692 bankroll from 24 lifetime
assignments.
Behindclosedoors put last week’s debacle in the Kentucky Filly Futurity
behind her thanks to a 1:55.1 score in her $70,500 division of the Bluegrass
Series. Dave Palone mapped out the come-from-behind tally with the Chuck
Sylvester-trained daughter of Andover Hall-Margarita Nights.
 Munis Blue Chip (Ray Schnittker) walked the field to the quarter pole in
a :30-second clip, and that prompted Palone to gear up out of the two-hole
with Behindclosedoors. She easily brushed to the top and was the leader at
the half in :59.2. Costa Rica (Ron Pierce) had sprung into action in the
backstretch and in a matter of strides she sprinted to the lead going into
the final turn. Action Broadway (Brian Sears) applied pressure to the leader
all the way to the three-quarter pole in 1:26.3 before Costa Rica turned her
aside. Costa Rica, however, couldn’t fend off Behindclosedoors who used a
strong stretch kick to surge to the wire in 1:55.1. Costa Rica held on for
the runner-up award, and third prize went to Action Broadway.
“She shook her head and run into the gate a little last week and it was
just one of those things; that was the first one she’s every made,” said
trainer Chuck Sylvester. “This week she was a little more relaxed and she
was better. The last month she’s been very good. We had flip flops on her
and we put a little light half round up front today and she was good.”
After a 4-for-10 rookie campaign, Behindclosedoors has followed suit with
a 4-for-14 sophomore season for the partnership of Mel Hartman of Ontario
along with Herb Liverman and David McDuffee of Florida. The lion’s share of
the purse lifted her earnings to $538,380.
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