Wall Street Trader, Mamma Mia, the best of divided feature

WALL STREET TRADER and MAMMA MIA, horses who have held their own against the country’s best on multiple occasions, as recent as two weeks ago, should put lower-rated rivals to the sword in their respective divisions of Saturday’s Allan E ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial at seven furlongs.

Facing non-restricted overnight-allowance company, horses who would have already won at the level, WALL STREET TRADER and MAMMA MIA are actually a cut above the grade, having both matched strides with grade-one horses last season.

Only two weeks past, United States-bred WALL STREET TRADER, runner-up to fellow American DESERT OF MALIBU in last season’s None Such and Port Royal Sprint, chased home another speedy importee, PACK PLAYS, in the Eileen Cliggott Memorial at six and a half furlongs.

WALL STREET TRADER returns refitted with blinkers in which he won three races from 11 starts locally, having finished ahead of three-time Jamaica Cup winner, ATOMICA, when gaining on PACK PLAYS in the Eileen Cliggott.

PACK PLAYS won the Eileen Cliggott in 1:18.1, the second-fastest time at the trip since clocking 1:17.3 on his September 21 debut, terrifying speed which ran ATOMICA and grade-one American IS THAT A FACT off their legs.

WALL STREET TRADER will be giving weight all around with topweight 126lb. However, the American speedster isn’t much heavier than the closest speed horse, local-filly BANADURA, who reports at 121lb, a bit too burdened to take WALL STREET TRADER out of his sweet spot on the lead.

In division two, MAMMA MIA, 1000 Guineas winner in 2023, who led that year’s Mouttet Mile into the lane before American invader ROUGH ENTRY pounced, returns off a five-month lay-up working like a house on fire.

MAMMA MIA clocked 1:13.3 for six furlongs last Saturday morning, scaring pigeons from the infield and leaving skid marks while being pulled up. Racing as a four-year-old last season, MAMMA MIA pulled off consecutive hatchet jobs on ATOMICA, setting up stablemate American stablemate FUNCAANDUN, who franked his form by winning the Mouttet Mile in December.

In one of her most impressive performances, MAMMA MIA clocked 1:30.4 at seven and a half furlongs, wiring FUNCAANDUN in splits of 34.0, 45.2, 57.4 and 1:10.3, the brunt of which ATOMICA felt when trying to follow her in back-to-back races won by FUNCAANDUN.