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Maywood Filly Pace Finalists at Stake (06/10/10)Posted Thursday, June 10, 2010 By Mike Paradise Maywood Park’s only $100,000 added money event for Illinois bred fillies is on the horizon and Rev Me Up and Fox Valley Dazzle drew byes into the Maywood Filly Pace Championship. Eight other state-bred fillies will compete to “earn” a start in the Friday, June 18 stake in an elimination event Thursday night. All it will take is a sixth place finish or higher in the seventh race feature to have a crack at the $50,000 winner’s share of the three-year-old stake eight nights from now and join Rev Met Up and Fox Valley Dazzle. Those two fillies advanced to the championship when they were this season’s two highest money earners entered. Interestingly both fillies drawing byes never have had a start at Maywood Park. Rev Me Up did race a few times on small fairs tracks to begin her freshman career and competed earlier in the year the Petticoat Yonkers, as did Fox Valley Dazzle, and each captured a leg in that New York series. Dazzle was unraced as a two-year-old. Every starter in Thursday’s $10,000 elimination has made at least one prior start at Maywood with the exception of the Erv Miller Stable’s Cotton Candy (6-1 morning line). The Sportsmaster offspring didn’t race as a two-year-old and this will be her initial half-mile test. Dave Magee will make a rare appearance at the Melrose Park, Illinois facility to handle the filly. The programmed 2-1 favorite is recent Balmoral Violet three-year-old champion Fox Valley Oracle (Dean Magee) and she left Maywood as a two-year-old with triumphs in her Violet elimination and the $56,500 Final last season for trainer John Butenschoen. Another daughter of Sportsmaster, she was the 2009 Illinois Two-Year-Old Pacer of the Year after she amassed over $225,000 in earnings and captured the Orange and Blue Filly Final last Super Night. The 5-2 morning line second choice Rolldownthehiway (p.p. 2, Marcus Miller) has plenty of small track know-how. She had seven races on Illinois fair tracks last year and won her first three career starts at Maywood—the My Metallica, the Juxtaposition and her Violet elimination—before a third place finish in the Violet Final. No. 1 She’s Aware (Casey Leonard), listed at generous 12-1 program odds, and has made all five of her second season starts at Maywood Park. The Nelson Willis Stable’s Things Left Unsaid has split the season between Maywood and Balmoral and was the Violet bridesmaid as a juvenile. Reilly’s Daughter (7-2, Dale Hiteman), one of two Roger Welch trainees in the elimination, won the Newcomer Series Final Series at Maywood early in the year, while stable-mate Ellamakailey (8-1, John De Long) had one unplaced Maywood outing last year but did race seven times and often successfully on fair tracks. Makena Cat (15-1, Del Chupp) dead-heated for first in Maywood’s Desperate Lady back in late April for trainer Jim Eaton. To view Archived Notes and Quotes click here.
The highlight of the two-day Clark County Fair was the venerable Leo Burns picking up where he left off last year on our fair circuit and that’s driving winning horses. Leo broke his own record as the oldest driver ever to win a race when the 95-year-old piloted his 6-year-old trotting mare Winsome Wyoming to a 2:06.2 clocking in the final race on the Monday matainee. Leo also owns and trains the winner who raced parked-out the entire mile but preserved by one and 3/ 4 lengths in a Topline trot event for 3-year-olds and older. . . On the same Monday card the first two races—a pair of 2-year-old filly pace divisions—went to the driver-trainer combination of Terry Skinner and Johnny Rice. The fastest of the two was Fox Valley Dublin’s 2:04.2 mile in the opener. She’s a daughter of Incredible Finale out of the broodmare Duncan’s Sister, making her a half-sister to the Maywood Filly Pace finalists Fox Valley Dazzle. “Dublin” sold for $4,700 at the 2009 Walker Sale . . . Also on Monday Randall Finn posted career winners 2,002 and 2,003, first winning with the freshman colt Fox Valley Canyon (2:04.3) and later with the 7-year-old mare Bonfire Red (2:03.2), the same horse that gave the 62-year-old native of Hidalgo, Illinois his 2,000th winner on May 29 at Bluegrass Downs in Kentucky. CLARK COUNTY FAIR Monday, June 7 Results FIRST: Illini 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,238: SECOND: Illini 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $1,238: THIRD: Illini 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,143: FOURTH: Illini 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $1,143: FIFTH: Illini 3-Year-Old Trot, 1st Div, Purse $1,556: SIXTH: Illini 3-Year-Old Trot, 2nd Div, Purse $1,556: SEVENTH: Topline, 3-Year-Olds & Up, Trot, 1st Div, Purse $1,000: EIGHTH: Topline, 3-Year-Olds & Up, Trot, 2nd Div, Purse $1,000: NINTH: Topline, 3-Year-Olds & Up, Trot, 3rd Div, Purse $1,000: TUESDAY, JUNE 8 RESULTS FIRST: Topline, 2-Year-Old Pace, Purse $2,500: SECOND: Topline, 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, 1st Div, Purse $1.067: THIRD: Topline, 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, 2nd Div, Purse $1.067: FOURTH: Illini 2-Year-Old Trot, Purse $1,911: FIFTH: Illini 3-Year-Old Filly Trot, 1st Div, Purse $1,191: SIXTH: Illini 3-Year-Old Filly Trot, 1st Div, Purse $1,191: SEVENTH: Illini 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, 1st Div, Purse $976: EIGHTH: Illini 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $976:
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