How to bet the 2025 Pebbles Stakes

A total of eight sophomore fillies are entered for the grass in Sunday’s $175,000 Pebbles S. (G3) at Aqueduct. I didn’t give a big chance to #1 Fast Market when she just missed in the Sands Point S. (G2) on the course, but I am surely in her corner on this occasion. 

Pebbles Wagers

• $1 superfecta 1 with 4,6,8 with 4,6,8 with all ($30)
• $2 trifecta 4,6,8 with 1 with 4,6,8 ($12)

Conditioned by John Terranova, the Kentucky-bred broke her maiden in her ninth lifetime start on the strip two back and ran huge last time, and I feel as though the removal of blinkers has had a lot to do with her vast improvement. The Volatile three-year-old likes the surface and the distance, and I also feel the rail draw is ideal for her running style, allowing the filly to save ground throughout. Flavien Prat will guide the leading selection. 

Riley Mott’s #4 It Ain’t Two will travel a route of ground for just the second time in her career and gets a top-three look with John Velazquez taking the reins. The Resolute Racing color bearer has run into some very good fillies in her six tries in 2025, including Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1) vixen Shisospicy on three separate occasions, and this is a more reasonable spot for sure. The European import might be forwardly placed, given the added ground in the affair. 

The Chad Brown-trained #8 Peak Hype defeated her elders in an allowance contest on the course in her latest showing and wouldn’t be a major surprise in her stakes bow. The More Than Ready filly has a strong closing kick and will arrive on the scene late under Santana. 

#6 Sweet Treasure is three-for-four in her lifetime for conditioner Brad Cox and exits a convincing allowance score at Churchill Downs on Oct. 31. The daughter of excellent turf influence Twirling Candy will face better on this occasion, but she looked good with the blinkers off most recently, and it’s worth noting that this is the lone mount of the day for pilot Florent Geroux.