Mercedes Stable’s Seattle Smooth might not have been fully cranked for Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Bed O’Roses, but it turned out she didn’t have to be.

As luck would have it, she caught an easy spot to make her 2009 seasonal debut and waltzed away to 5 ¾-length victory in this 53rd renewal of the seven-furlong sprint for fillies and mares on Aqueduct’s fast main track.

“Once again, at the top of the stretch, I said to myself, ‘This is a very good filly,’ because I know she was not at her best today,” said trainer Anthony Dutrow, as she returned $4.30 as the favorite of the crowd of 4,478. It was her first start since September 20.

With their connections opting for the Sugar Maple at Charles Town, Cowgirls Don’t Cry and Spritely scratched out of the Bed O’Roses, leaving a field of four.

Are We Dreamin, at 14-1, broke on top from post 7 and was quickly joined on the inside by Distorted Passion. They raced in a moderate 23.45 and 46.65, with Seattle Smooth targeting them from the outside, about a length behind.

At the quarter-pole, Seattle Smooth drew even with the front-runners, then drew off under a hand ride to give jockey Ramon Dominguez his third winner of the afternoon, stopping the clock at 1:23.48.

Having won five of 11 career starts, Seattle Smooth will now point to the Grade 2, $150,000 Shuvee at a one mile at Belmont Park on May 16; the Grade 1, $300,000 Ogden Phipps at a mile and a sixteenth at Belmont Park on June 13) and Saratoga’s Grade 1, $300,000 Go for Wand at nine furlongs on August 2.

“With the scratches, well, I worry about everything,” Dutrow said. “I was like, `Run a good race, come out of it and go forward.’ I didn’t want to get caught up in what kind of a pace scenario might unfold.

“[The question is] will she like Belmont Park? If she does, we’re in business. I don’t want to offend anybody by saying this, but I really like this filly.”

Dominguez was also high on the 4-year-old Quiet American filly.

“I can’t take credit for anything there, I was just a passenger,” said Aqueduct’s leading jockey. “It was very nice – she did it great. [In the stretch] I just put a little pressure on her mouth and she did it on her own.”

Are We Dreamin necked Distorted Passion for the place. Awesome I Am, who never ran a step, was four lengths back.