Buy the Best lived up to expectations Sunday when winning her fourth consecutive race in Laurel Park's $100,000 Gin Talking Stakes for juvenile fillies at seven furlongs. Ridden by Jaime Rodriguez, Buy the Best tracked the pace between rivals as Beneath the Stars cleared off to an uncontested lead through early fractions of 23.11 and 46.77 seconds. Beneath the Stars was still loose at the five-sixteenths pole, but Buy the Best was just finding her best stride at that juncture and the favorite confronted the pacesetter at the three-sixteenths mark. Buy the Best had all the outside momentum and went by Beneath the Stars to score by two lengths. It was another 6 1/2 lengths back to Moody Woman in third. Then came Sommer Velvet and My Thoughts. Click to Confirm scratched. Buy the Best stopped the teletimer in 1:26.79 seconds and paid $2.20 to Win. :: Join DRF Bets and play the races with a $250 First Deposit Bonus. Click to learn more. “I was hoping someone else would go with that horse [Beneath the Stars] and give us a better pace to run at,” trainer Cathal Lynch said via telephone interview. “I thought we were in a little trouble at the three-eighths, but she’s very classy and she finds ways.” Lynch was quick to credit his youngest son, Anthony Lynch, as one of the first to notice Buy the Best’s quality. “Anthony had her at Fair Hill all summer. He told me very early on that she and Defend were his two favorite 2-year-olds.” Defend, a colt by American Freedom, has won two of three starts and is taking the winter off. “He’ll be back in March,” Lynch said.   The winner was bred in Kentucky by Susan Moulton. A daughter of Tapiture out of synthetic stakes-winning sprinter Sister Dawn (by Indian Charlie), she sold for $60,000 as a weanling before being purchased by Hope Jones for $70,000 as a yearling. Buy the Best was defeated in her first two starts before grabbing two races at Delaware Park during fall. “I was surprised she got beat the first time,” Lynch continued. “I blame myself for getting stuck down on the rail in the second race. I drew the one hole and got beat a half-length and finished fourth. That race bothered me for a month.” Buy the Best successfully joined stakes company last month with a 3 1/4-length victory in the $100,000 Smart Halo Stakes at Laurel. The Gin Talking was her first start past six furlongs and Lynch is looking forward to stretching her out to a route of ground. “She acts like distance wouldn’t be an issue,” Lynch said, mentioning that races in Maryland and New York will be considered. Shake Em Loose wins Heft Stakes A half-hour after 1-9 favorite Buy the Best captured the Gin Talking, Shake Em Loose pulled off a 59-1 shocker in the $100,000 Heft for 2-year-olds and seven furlongs. The longest shot on the tote board in the field of seven juveniles, Shake Em Loose broke a half-length slow under Yomar Ortiz and they trailed the field as Dontcrossfuzzy and Uncle Buddy dueled through solid splits of 23.00 and 46.85 seconds. Last Romance, trained by Lynch, made a menacing three-wide bid to the front late on the turn, but Shake Em Loose followed that foe’s cover and eased to the far outside in the stretch. Last Romance was game, but Shake Em Loose finished stronger to prevail by three-quarters of a length in 1:25.69. Favored Life Is Great was another 1 1/4-lengths back in third. Run to Daylight, Uncle Buddy, Dontcrossfuzzy and Amidships completed the order of finish. Claimed by trainer Rodolfo Sanchez-Salomon out of his last start, a winning effort in a $16,000 maiden claimer at Laurel on Nov. 19, Shake Em Loose raced as a gelding for the first time in the Heft. Bred in Kentucky by Pillar Property Services, Inc., Shake Em Loose is a half-brother to Grade 3 winner Praying for Cash and stakes-placed sprinter Credit Report. The former finished second in the 2006 Grade 1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park. Purchased for $1,000 as a yearling, Shake Em Loose made his first six starts for trainer Hamilton Smith. He races for J R Sanchez Racing Stable.