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ELMONT, N.Y. \u2013 Zo Impressive took advantage of a tiring pacesetter in Contested and held off a late surge from Disposablepleasure to win Saturday\u2019s 56th<\/sup> running of the Grade 1, $300,000 Mother Goose at Belmont Park.<\/p>\n

After breaking sharply from post position 5 under Rajiv Maragh, Zo Impressive was taken back to settle on the outside in third as 1-2 favorite Contested opened up 1 \u00bd lengths on longshot Wildcat\u2019s Smile through a quarter mile in 23.08 and a half in 46.47. Asked for run leaving the five-sixteenths pole, the front-running Acorn winner came up empty. Zo Impressive, meanwhile, was set down to duel with late-running Disposablepleasure, whom she bested by three-quarters of a length. The final time for 1 1\/16-miles was 1:44.28 over a track rated good.<\/p>\n

Kentucky Oaks winner Believe You Can, who tracked the leaders from the inside throughout, finished third, followed by Wildcat\u2019s Smile and Contested. A jockey\u2019s objection by Ramon Dominguez, the rider of Disposablepleasure, against the winner for alleged interference in the stretch run was disallowed by the stewards.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe the biggest difference was the Acorn had a very speed-favoring track, and Contested got an uncontested lead,\u201d said Maragh, who rode Zo Impressive to a runner-up finish in last month\u2019s Grade 1 Acorn. \u201c[Today] several horses gave her more respect and put on pressure, and that help me beat her. The pace was a little hot [in the Acorn] and they got away from me more than I wanted. I had too much ground to make up. We wanted more of a tracking position today.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the first graded stakes win for Zo Impressive, who now owns three victories and a pair of second-place finishes from five starts, with $349,800 in earnings for Charlotte Weber\u2019s Live Oak Plantation. Sent off the 6-1 third choice in the wagering today, she returned $14.60 and topped a $95 exacta with 10-1 Disposablepleasure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think [more distance] should hurt her any,\u201d trainer Tom Albertrani said of Zo Impressive. \u201cWe\u2019ll see when we get to Saratoga with two turns again, try to stretch her out to a mile and an eighth [in the TVG Coaching Club American Oaks (Grade 1, $300,000 on Saturday, July 21 at Saratoga Race Course)]. We\u2019re just happy to get the Grade 1, that\u2019s important, and as long as she comes out of the race healthy, that\u2019s really what we want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jim Barnes, assistant to Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, who trains Contested, said his filly seemed to struggle somewhat with the surface.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the track she ran on in the Acorn was just a much different track,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cThis was kind of wet down deep inside and kind of a dead track, didn\u2019t look like it had life to where they were bouncing over it. She looked to be running fairly easy early, but I knew at the top of the stretch, or even before then, that we were in serious trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

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