Emerging Market
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Emerging MarketSent off as the 16-5 third betting choice in what appeared to be a promising maiden allowance Saturday afternoon at Tampa, Klaravich Stables' Emerging Market (c, 3, Candy Ride {Arg}–Wild Empress, by Empire Maker) made a pair of eye-catching moves in the deciding stages of an extended-mile contest and outslugged hot favorite Powershift (Constitution) to become a new 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard...
Sent off as the 16-5 third betting choice in what appeared to be a promising maiden allowance Saturday afternoon at Tampa, Klaravich Stables' Emerging Market (c, 3, Candy Ride {Arg}–Wild Empress, by Empire Maker) made a pair of eye-catching moves in the deciding stages of an extended-mile contest and outslugged hot favorite Powershift (Constitution) to become a new 'TDN Rising Star' presented by Hagyard.
Off to an uneventful break from the two hole, the $185,000 Keeneland September acquisition was content to drop back and sit in the slipstream of Powershift, who secured the perfect spot at the rail just behind dueling longshots down the back of the track.
The even-money selection, a $500,000 KEEEP purchase, had first crack on the leaders, as he went on the attack three wide on the turn, but Flavien Prat had that move covered astride Emerging Market, as he angled his mount sharply off the fence and into the four path at the quarter pole.
The pair appeared to exchange bumps with a furlong and a half to race and they matched motors deep into the final furlong, but Emerging Market had his rival's measure and was home a cozy three-parts of a length to the good. It was a yawning 13 1/2-length margin back to $1.1-million Keeneland September purchase Make My Day (Gun Runner), a stable companion of Powershift and narrow second choice, in third. The final time was 1.45 seconds quicker than the 3-year-old fillies went in the Suncoast Stakes one race prior.
Wild Empress, a half-sister to champion juvenile filly She Be Wild (Offlee Wild), was unplaced in three racetrack appearances for breeder Nancy Mazzoni and was purchased by Robert Slack's Stoneriggs Farm for $80,000 out of the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Digital March Sale before sending her to Candy Ride for her maiden covering. Wild Empress is also the dam of a juvenile Charlatan colt that was exported to Japan after bringing $150,000 at Keeneland September last year and a yearling colt by Practical Joke. She is due to Constitution for 2026.
Emerging Market is bred on the identical cross as GISWs Separationofpowers and Rock Your World, while the outstanding Twirling Candy is out of a mare by Empire Maker's GISW half-brother Chester House.
