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The filly wasn’t showing much. Down the backside, she was laying sixth of nine, probably eight or more lengths back, and she just wasn’t showing much. On the turn for home, another horse slipped past, and now Bit of Whimsy was seventh, on the rail but behind a wall of horses. It looked like she was going to be an also-ran in the grade 1 $500,000 Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Keeneland last Saturday.
Yet in horseracing, looks can be deceiving.
Up front, last year’s 2-year-old champion filly, Dreaming of Anna, was winging on the lead as she had been since the gate opened at the Lexington, Ky. track. She had repulsed the challenge of Coquerelle, the French-based filly that won four in a row in the spring, and now, with an eighth of a mile to go, Anna seemed home and dry.
Not.
Jockey Javier Castellano on Bit of Whimsy found room along the rail, threw a cross, drew his stick and showed it to the tough filly: AD of a sudden, we had a horserace. Bit of Whimsy blew past the tiring leaders, went inside one and ranged up outside Dreaming of Anna.
The champ had nothing left to fend off the flying chestnut. Bit of Whimsy went by her like she was tied to a tree and drew off by more than two in the last 16th of a mile, cementing her position as top 3-year-old
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