A stubborn Stifling, prominent throughout, stayed on gamely to the wire for second and was elevated to the win position following the disqualification of My Gal Betty, who crossed the wire first, in Saturday’s $100,000 My Dear Stakes, at Woodbine.

Trained by John Bourke and ridden by Pablo Morales for Commonwealth New Era Racing, the bay daughter of Flatter graduated in style with a solid stretch run after pressing the early pace of the speedy Sav.

“I really feel like she deserved to win, she ran so hard,” said Morales, who took the 2016 edition of the My Dear Stakes with Velvet Mood. “She broke so good. She got pressured early and even then, she fought them off and kept running to the wire.”

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