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My Miss Caroline Heads Up Flan Elim (07/28/10)Posted Tuesday July 28, 2010 By Mike Paradise Elimination races weren’t need for the upcoming Plesac stakes for state-bred freshman trotting colt and geldings however we’ll get a good line on the $46,000 Fox Valley Flan championship for filly trotters in a single elim event on Wednesday’s Balmoral card. Only the tenth place finisher in the fourth race won’t advance to the August 4 Fox Valley Flan Final next Wednesday. The 9-5 morning line elimination favorite is the Robert Taylor Stable’s My Miss Caroline after an impressive a1:58.3 winning debut by the ICF filly under a hand drive by Dave Magee. My Miss Caroline is a daughter of Physic Spirit and her dam Miss Clara T, owned and bred by James and Jessie Springfield of Brownsville, Tennessee was by Fulmar Seelster, a pacer. My Miss Caroline was bought 14 months ago in a private sale by La Bella Vista Stables (Morris, IL), Kevin Dixon (Lynchburg, TN) and trainer Robert Taylor (Bolivar, TN) from fellow Tennessean Joe Springfield, the owner and breeder of the filly. “My Miss Caroline was going to go into a sale but she had a hock that blew up on her about six months before the sale in some type of stall accident,” explained Taylor. “The owner knew with a big leg she wasn’t going to bring much so he took her out of the sale. Joe had her X-rayed and everything looked clean so he decided he was going to keep her. “We’ve always been good friends with the Springfield’s who broke her. Joe sent over the filly to me for a month kind of get her lined-out for him. I liked her and asked him if he would be interested in selling her. He said he would, so we ended up buying her,” continued Robert. My Miss Caroline was scheduled to make her debut on June 23 in Balmoral’s Star Slinger freshman stake but was scratched that night. “She had an ankle that an a little inflammation in it,” said Taylor.” She warmed up fine for the race but we had a real bad (rain) storm that came through and I did not want to take the chance with her going out there in all that mud with that inflammation. There would be plenty of races for her later in the year so we scratched her. “Her two qualifiers weren’t fast (2:02.2 and 2:05.1) but she showed me a quick brush in each of them,” added Taylor. “She came home in: 27.4 in the last one. She’s nice to drive. I talked to Dave (Magee) about her and told him I’d like for him to drive her when the time came and he did. We both were very pleased with her first start.” Magee left enough with My Miss Caroline to get up close position in the three-hole. Dave pulled the filly mid-way in the last turn and she went first up past the leader in comfortable fashion and then drew away in the lane with Dave for a five-length victory in 1:58.3 without any urging. My Miss Caroline will open up as the 9-5 programmed favorite with Powerfulconnection (Todd Warren) the 5-2 early second choice with four wins at the fairs and a third place finish in the July 11 Vaporize stake. The Bret Wilfong first-time starter Capture The Moment is the freshman sister to the stable’s Violet stake champion Kf’spictureperfect. Balmoral Park Photo My Miss Caroline was an easy winner in her debut with driver Dave Magee. Balmoral Stake Finalists at Charleston: Drawing the bye into the Fox Valley Flan Final was Tom Grummel’s filly Bonnie’s Star, a winner of three races this season including a 2:01.3 mile with Mike Brink in a July 11 division of Balmoral’s Vaporize stake. The young filly will stay sharp for the Fox Valley Flan with a start Wednesday in the first $6,750 two-year-old filly trot division of an Illinois Stallion Stake at the Charleston Fair. Six other Illinois Stallion Stakes will follow on the nine-race Charleston program as well. The $12,909 event for ICF freshman colt trotters lured Powerful Charger (Pamela Coleman), Powerful Position (Michael Pryor) and Hammer Head (Stephan Halford II)—all finalists in the $26,000 (est.) Plesac Final on August 4 at Balmoral Park. Recent double Maywood Park stakes winner Fox Valley Dublin (Terry Skinner) is the filly too beat in the second of two $6,750 freshman filly pace splits at Charleston. Making his debut for new connections in the first of two $6,850 Illinois Stallion Stakes for first season colts is TJ’s Rocky (Mike Cox), another current two-time Maywood Park stakes champion. The Park Place colt was recently sold to Michael Polansky (Loudonville, NY) and now races out of the Maywood Park based Dave Mc Caffrey Stable. First post for the third day of racing Wednesday at the Charleston Fair is 5:30 p.m. COLES COUNTY FAIR AT CHARLESTON Monday, July 26 Results FIRST: Open, Fillies and Mares, Pace, Purse $750: SECOND: Open, Fillies and Mares, Pace, Purse $750: THIRD: NW 2 or $2,000 Lifetime, Pace, Purse $750: FOURTH: NW 2 or $2,000 Lifetime, Pace, Purse $750: FIFTH: Non-Winners $5,000 Lifetime, Trot, Purse $750: SIXTH: Non-Winners $5,000 Lifetime, Trot, Purse $750: SEVENTH: Maidens, Trot, Purse $750: EIGHTH: Maidens, Trot, Purse $750: EDWARDS COUNTY FAIR AT ALBION Monday, July 26 Results FIRST: ECS 3-Year-Old Filly Pace, Purse $1,500: SECOND: ECS 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, Purse $1,500: THIRD: ECS 3-Year-Old Filly Trot, Purse $1,300: FOURTH: ECS 3-Year-Old Colt Trot, Purse $1,500: FIFTH: Four-Year-Olds and Up, ICF, Trot, Purse $6,700: SIXTH: Free For All Pace, Purse $1,000: SEVENTH: Free For All Pace, Purse $1,000: CHAMPAIGN COUNTY FAIR AT URBANA Monday July 26 Results FIRST: Illiini Two-Year-Old Pace, Purse $3,464: SECOND: Topline Two-Year-Old Trot, Purse $2,500: THIRD: Topline, Two-Year-Old Pace, Purse $2,500: FOURTH: Free For All Trot, Purse $1,200:
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