Dem Sugar is the Girl to watch

Article by Lindon Yarde

DE GIRLZ DEM Sugar can derail Fleurette’s road for Triple Crown supremacy today in the 5 p.m. featured Grade I Pinnacle Feeds Midsummer Creole Classic at allotted weights over 1 800 metres.

After a third-place in the Guineas, the Robert Peirce trainee made his presence felt with a hard-fought nose success in the 1 800 metres Harmony General Breeders’ Stakes over a raging Butterfly.

With his no-surrender attitude and further improvement in the forecast, De Girlz Dem Sugar is potent ammunition.

Fleurette, a winner of six races including easily taking the Guineas, will today venture into unknown territory, making it a test of her stamina as she seeks a beaver in this second jewel for a purse valued at $71 000. (LY)

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