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Pretty Birdie Carries Marylou Whitney Stables Silks To Opening Day Schuylerville Victory Sponsored by: Pretty Birdie and Luis Saez win the opening-day Schuylerville Stakes wearing the silks of the late queen of Saratoga, Marylou Whitney Marylou Whitney Stables Pretty Birdie rocketed to a lead that she never relinquished, fending off 6-5 favorite Mainstay s stretch-drive challenge to win the Grade 3, $150,000 Schuylerville for juvenile fillies by two lengths on Thursday, Opening Day, at Saratoga Race Course in  Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The 103rd edition of the six-furlong Schuylerville fittingly saw the ownership group of the late Saratoga icon and philanthropist capture a graded stakes during the lid-lifter of the 40-day meet. To accomplish the feat, Pretty Birdie wasted no time breaking sharply from the inside post under Luis Saez, leading the seven-horse field through an opening quarter-mile in 22.29 seconds, a half in 45.82 and three-quarters in 58.40 on the fast m

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