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Stakes Aplenty Sunday (07/011/10)Posted Sunday, July 11, 2010 By Mike Paradise Four smallish stakes are sprinkled on Balmoral’s Sunday card with a number of first-time freshman filly trotters in action in the first two races and some familiar three-year-old trotting colts and geldings slugging it out near the end of the 12-race card. In between a bulky field off 11 distaffers will tangle in the seventh race $9,000 Ohyouprettything, another stake in the wide open 3-year-old filly pacing division which seems to have a new winner after every race. The programmed favorites are Mystical Victress (3-1, Marcus Miller) and Fox Valley Oracle (4-1, Casey Leonard) Only two of the 13 fillies going postward in the two $4,000 Vaporize stake divisions have a pari-mutuel start under their belt—High Game (Mike Cox) and Make It Rain (Jared Finn) both in the first split. In the second division the 9-5 morning line favorite Powerfulconnection breezed in her fair track start at Marshall and also in a trio of races at Springfield for trainer Pamela Coleman. Todd Warren takes over the lines on this home-bred filly eligible for the Hanover filly stake. The $9,000 Brandenburg stake for ICF second season male trotters is headed up by current season stakes winners Leaveitonthetrack (3-1 morning line, Bob Smolin), Muscatine (9-2, Dale Hiteman) and Wolf Creek Pass (7-2, Brian Carpenter) who will race coupled with Dutch Commander (7-2, Dave Magee) and M A Cody (7-2, Mike Oosting). Both Wolf Creek pass and M A Cody are from the Gerald Hansen Stable and have stayed sharp racing on the Rushville and Martinsville fair tracks. Brian Carpenter has driven both horses and while he guides Wolf Creek Pass tonight he thinks M A Cody could end up being the better of the two before this season is over. “Wolf Creek Pass is has good as anybody else in his division,” said Brian. “The sleeper Sunday is M A Cody. Every time we qualified this horse he drew off but when we put him in a race and he would break. We couldn’t put our finger on what was the problem. “Now when we train these two horses together and Wolf Creek pass sits on M A Cody’s back, Cody just draws off from him. I think I’ve got a good shot with Wolf Creek Pass especially since he drew the rail but M A Cody has a lot of ability and if he keeps it together he’ll be tough too beat.” Besides all the ICF stakes still coming up this season M A Cody is eligible to the Hanover and American National open company added money events at Balmoral and The Galt at Maywood. Wolf Creek Pass is owned by Steve Poore of Beecher, IL who also shares ownership of M A Cody with Robert Rietveld of Bourbonnais, Il. Since Robert is a part-owner of Dutch Commander with Taylor Rietveld and Paul Gibson (Crete, IL), the trio of trotters will be a three-horse entry in the Brandenburg. To view Archived Notes and Quotes click here. There was racing night and day Saturday on the circuit. The Jersey County Fair at Jerseyville opened in the daytime with four Mid-Western Illinois Racing Association events. Both $1,313 MWIRA Filly Pace Division winners—AR Sissy and Singing The Blues—were trained and driven by Graham Ross Jr. AR Sissy eked out a nose decision in 2:06.4 while Singing The Blues was a comfortable 2:04.2 winner. . . Rushing Hero made it two straight in the $1,939 freshman colt division in 2:04.1 for driver Ronnie Gillespie and trainer Roshun Triggs . . . Ms Tegan won for the second time in three season starts in the $2,312 MWIRA Trot for 3-year-olds, picking up a three-length decision for driver Nick Prather for trainer Myrel Allen who is also the co-owner and breeder of the mare with Cheryl Allen. At night it was the opening of racing at the Wayne County Fair at Fairfield where five Egyptian Colt Stakes were contested. The $1,105 two-year-old colt divisions went to Problem Solver (2:02.3), owned and driven by Terry Skinner, and to Madoff (2:04.3) trained, driven and co-owed by Randall Finn. Problem’s Solver drew off by over eight lengths in his third win of the season while Madoff was an easy 2 and ½ length victor. . . The $1,900 freshman filly pace saw a first up Paris Place follow his victory at Martinsville with a 2 and ½ length winning margin in 2:03.3 for trainer and owner Jodie Outlaw II . . . Two $1,200 ECS 3-year-old trot splits were raced with Michael Pryor guiding Mystical Malachi to his first season win in 2:10, and Jared Finn steering Smoken Homer to his almost four length triumph in 2:07.3, the gelding’s second victory on the fair circuit this summer. JERSEY COUNTY FAIR AT JERSEYVILLE Saturday, July 10 Results FIRST: MWIRA 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,313: SECOND: MWIRA 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $1,313: THIRD: MWIRA 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, Purse $1,313: FOURTH: MWIRA 3-Year-Old Trot, Purse $2,312: FIFTH: NW $2,000 Lifetime, Pace, Purse $1,000: WAYNE COUNTY FAIR at FAIRFIELD Saturday, July 10 Results FIRST: ECS 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,105: SECOND: ECS 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $1,105: THIRD: ECS 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, Purse $1,900: FOURTH: ECS 3-Year-Old Trot, 1st Div, Purse $1,200: FIFTH: ECS 3-Year-Old Trot, 2nd Div, Purse $1,200:
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