Hit The Bid Racing Stable's Fast Market exited the summer racing season as a maiden, having gone winless in her first eight starts. But she could end the fall as a graded stakes winner.
The John Terranova trainee, much improved in a pair of starts since blinkers were removed from her racing equipment, is the likely favorite against five other 3-year-old fillies in the $175,000 Pebbles Stakes (G3T) Nov. 16 at Aqueduct Racetrack. In two starts this autumn, she broke her maiden stylishly Sept. 18 at Aqueduct over a mile trip before stepping up into graded company and finishing a hard-charging second, beaten a neck by Ready for Candy Oct. 18 Sands Point Stakes (G3T) over a longer 1 1/8-mile distance on the grass.
"She is a talented filly; it just took a little while to figure everything out with her," Terranova said. "Thankfully, she cooperated. Mentally, physically, everything about her is solid and classy."
With Ready for Candy bypassing the Pebbles—fifth-place Paradise City is the only other Sands Point competitor to return—Fast Market, a bay daughter of Volatile , is the 9-5 morning-line favorite in Sunday's one-mile turf race, ahead of recent allowance winner Peak Hype at 2-1.
Besides Fast Market, three others in the Pebbles have earned graded back type, all with stakes placings: Paradise City, It Ain't Two, and Correto. It Ain't Two also won an ungraded stakes race in Britain a little more than a year ago.
Aqueduct Racetrack, Sunday, November 16, 2025, Race 3Entries: Pebbles S. (G3T)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Paradise City (KY) Manuel Franco 118 Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. 4/1 2 2It Ain't Two (GB) John R. Velazquez 118 Riley Mott 12/1 3 3Correto (KY) Jaime Rodriguez 118 H. Graham Motion 6/1 4 4Love You Anyway (KY) Jose Lezcano 118 George R. Arnold II 5/1 5 5Fast Market (KY) Dylan Davis 118 John P. Terranova II 9/5 6 6Peak Hype (KY) Ricardo Santana, Jr. 118 Chad C. Brown 2/1
