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A Saturday Night Delight (07/010/10)Posted Saturday, July 10, 2010 By Mike Paradise The lone claiming event on the card is the always very competitive (eighth) race for horses in for $10,000 though $15,000. While two $7,000 divisions of the Hot Head stake for ICF three-year-old male pacers—races four and five—are the headliners, there are a pair of $5,800 conditioned races that I particularly like. Each came up strong. In fact both the ninth and twelfth races would have been the track’s Free For All event a month or so ago. Four horses entered in last week’s Cook County stake at Maywood—Sports Fanatic, My Boy Luke, Omaha Survivor and Fort Silky—are taking on Berry’s Creek finalist Morgan Shark and the Nelson Willis trained entry of Park Land Hotshot and Vette Man who both competed in Hoosier Park Opens last month in race nine. In the twelfth, Park Lane Deputy, Delightful Five, Who’s The Boss, The Quiet Mon and Kansas Wildcat, all horses who have been in Balmoral Free For All events this year, will tangle and are joined by Sawgrass Farm’s Four Starz Trace, winner of a $66,480 PASS stake at The Meadows a month ago, and the Erv Miller Stable’s On A Tear, winner of over $300,000 in his career. Saturday’s first race for state-bred two-year-olds has some potential starters for next week’s $60,000 (est.) Hanover stake for freshman colts and geldings. It includes the Hanover eligible first-time starters Playin For Keeps and Flowmaster, both sons of Cole Muffler with very successful brothers. Playin For Keeps (Dave Magee), bowing for trainer Nick Giberson, is a full brother to Illinois standout Power Of A Moment (1:50.4), while the Scott Foster Stable’s Flowmaster is the younger sibling of Glass Pack (1:49.4) and Double Trouble (1:51) who raced successful for Foster in 2008 and 2009. In Saturday’s second race the Joe Seekman Stable’s Rocknroll Fever (Travis Seekman) is staying sharp for a start a week from tonight in the $37,000 (est.) Hanover stake for sophomore pacing colts. In race three the first-time 3-year-old starter Sweet Vengeance for trainer Todd La Fountaine is a Real Desire colt who is a half brother to millionaire Bettor Sweet (1:47.2). In the fourth race, the first division of the Hot Head, Fox Valley Escort (a full brother to Breeders Crown champion Fox Valley Topaz), Charlie Beans, Indescribable, Finance The Master and Parker Place all are eligible to the Hanover 3-year-old colt stake, along with Fox Valley Emelio, Come On Honey and Voomerang from the second Hot Head split. Other Illinois bred notables who are likely Hanover stake bound are the Miller Stable’s duo of Iam Bonsera, the third place finisher in the $100,000 North America Cup Consolation, Cardinal champion Power Of A Moment, and recent $100,000 Maywood Pace champ Southern Sport for trainer Kristopher Reynolds. To view Archived Notes and Quotes click here. County Fair Report The three-day Clark County Fair meet at Martinsville concluded Thursday with four Opens for 2 and 3-year-old pacers and trotters and the Great Midwest Pace and Trot . . . Powerful Speed pulled off an upset in the $9,138 Trot when he took advantage breaks by the ICF 3-year-old male division leader Showmeyourstuff. The home-bred Powerful Speed, driven and trained by part-owner Tom Graham Jr. ended up 15 lengths the best in 2:02.2 on a fast track . . . The $7,930 Great Midwest pace was a much closer race. Trainer-driver Tom Simmons rallied Ucallthatanexcuse from fourth with a quarter mile to go and nailed own a half length victory over His Eminence (Marcus Miller) with a 1:59.3 clocking . . . The most impressive of the four Opens for youngsters conducted was World Class Racing’s Lilwobbydobby drawing off in the second pace division by 15 ½ lengths in a snappy 2:00.1 for driver Ronnie Gillespie. Un-raced at two, Roshun Trigg trains the 3-year-old son of Pro Bono Best who won for the third consecutive time on the Illinois County Fair Circuit. CLARK COUNTY FAIR at MARTINSVILLE Thursday, July 8 Results FIRST: Open, 2 and 3-Year-Olds, Pace, Purse $750: SECOND: Open, 2 and 3-Year-Olds, Pace, Purse $750: THIRD: Open, 2 and 3-Year-Olds, Trot, Purse $750: FOURTH: Open, 2 and 3-Year-Olds, Trot, Purse $750: FIFTH: The Great Midwest Pace, Purse $7,930: SIXTH: The Great Midwest Trot, Purse $9,138: County Fair Report Racing at the Marshall-Putnam County Fair at Henry concluded Thursday with a quartet of Northern Illinois Colt Association events for three year olds and Gary Rath drove and trained both distaff champions on a track listed good. First Gary posted a victory (2:13.4) behind Bobby Beggs’ Budda Belly in the $1,478 Filly Trot and then two races later guided his mare Gypsy’s Little Star to a 2 and ½ length win in the $11,684 Filly Pace with a 2:06.1 clocking . . . In the opener it was all Fox Valley Flare for driver-trainer John Roberts, finishing 20 lengths ahead of the field in 2:11.2 in the $1,235 sophomore Colt Trot. . . William De Long’s Lady Lizard, driven and conditioned by Jay Garrels went to the front in the $1,653 Colt Pace and never looked back with a 2:03 clocking in his three-length triumph. MARSHALL-PUTNAM COUNTY at HENRY Thursday, July 8 Results
FIRST: NICA 3-Year-Old Colt Trot, Purse $1,235: SECOND: NICA 3-Year-Old Filly Trot, Purse $1,478: THIRD: NICA 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, Purse $1,653: FOURTH: NICA 3-Year-Old Filly Pace, Purse $1,684: FIFTH: Free For All Pace, 1st Div, Purse $750: SIXTH: Free For All Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $750 |
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