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Good And Plenty In Saturday's Festival (07/30/10)Posted Friday July 30, 2010 By Mike Paradise With back-to-back Saturday night handles of over $1 million in the bank it’s a good bet that tomorrow night’s Chicago Southland Festival of Racing at Balmoral Park will also see another seven figure handle deposited though the track’s mutuel windows. We’re in the middle of the summer stakes season and that’s what high-quality racing cards with first-rate purses for good quality horses do . . . produce excellent handles. And Saturday’s “Festival” is loaded with plenty of good Illinois bred horses. The Roger Welch Stable’s Voomerang dropped his first eight starts this year after a freshman season that saw him win in 1:52.1 in his very first career start enroute to earning over $81,000 for owners Beau and Pat De Long. “If you told me Voomerang would be winless by the first of July I would have laughed at you,” said Roger Welch. “Going into the Hanover the horse paced some big last quarters and some big last halves and hadn’t gotten there yet. He had no racing luck and it was poor draw after poor draw. “The draw changed the last two weeks and I’m sure so has Voomerang’s confidence level after he beat Power Of A Moment the last couple of Saturdays.” “Voomerang is for real,” said his driver Mike Oosting. “He’s been very good in his last two starts.” Voomerang (7-2) has the seven-slot Saturday, while the 3-1 morning line favorite Power Of A Moment is inside with the three. However stable-mate Iam Bonsaera landed the outside 10-slot and will open at 4-1 odds. Oosting will guide two other Welch trained horses with big shots Saturday—Little Maeve at 3-1 in the $63,500 Loyal Opposition showdown and He’s So Hot at 8-5 in the Mini Me Final. “Little Maeve is a pretty nice filly who is mature for her age,” Mike. “She has a good way of going and doesn’t seem to get tired. She’s handy and can get it done either way.” Oosting likes what he’s seen so far from He’s So Hot. “He has an excellent way of going and He’s So Hot has a great attitude” added Mike. “The horse has very good tactical speed. You can get where you want to be with him any time you want to do it and that’s a big plus in a race.” Oosting has drives in the three other state-bred stakes on the Saturday card. Mike owns and trains Bonn Scott in the seventh race $46,500 Big Tom stake for older colts and geldings. He’ll at the lines of the Erv Miller stable’s Rolldowntheiway in the $56,000 Ann Vonian when she races uncoupled from the Miller trained entry 8-5 favorites of Cotton Candy (Dave Magee) and Mystical Victress (Marcs Miller). Mike has his veteran mare Bobs Minute Maid in the $50,000 Park lane Powerful for fillies and mares ages three and up. To view Archived Notes and Quotes click here. Voomerang (Mike Oosting) goes for his third in a row in Saturday's Incredible Finale Final.
The town of Charleston, Illinois played host to Illinois Stallion Stakes for two-year-olds Wednesday evening as Powerful Charger became the fastest freshman gelding trotter ever on an Illinois County Fair track when Randall Finn drove him to a 2:01.4 clocking. Trained by Pamela Coleman, who shares ownership of the son of Powerful Emotion with Jerry Graham and Mystical Marker Farms, Powerful Charger was 16 lengths the best in the $12,900 stake. . . Albion, Illinois’ Leo Burns broke his own record as the oldest driver ever to win a harness race when the 95-year-old took his trotting mare Winsome Wyoming to a 2:01 victory in Wednesday’s opener . . . Among other Illinois Stallion Stake winners were the Tom Simmons Stable’s Cuzimademymindup for the third straight time with a 2:03.2 mile in the second 2-year-old filly pace division with Jerry Mims’ Katie Mack (Cad Bell) taking the first $6,750 split in 2:003 . . .TJ’s Rocky (Mike Cox) stayed unbeaten in three starts with a 1:59 mile in the first $6,860 ISS 2-year-old colt division. The win was his first since joining the Dave McCaffrey Stable. Rushing Hero (Ronnie Gillespie) gained a neck decision with a 2:01.4 mile in the second colt split. COLES COUNTY FAIR AT CHARLESTON Wednesday, July 28 Results FIRST: ICF 4-Year-Old Mares, Trot, Purse $3,500: SECOND: ICF 4-Year-Old Colt Trot, Purse $3,700: THIRD: Illinois Stallion Stake, 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, 1st Div, Purse $6,750: FOURTH: Illinois Stallion Stake, 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, 1st Div, Purse $6,750: FIFTH: Illinois Stallion Stake, 2-Year-Old Colt Trot, Purse $12,900: SIXTH: Illinois Stallion Stake, 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, 1st Div, Purse $6,750: SEVENTH: Illinois Stallion Stake, 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $6,750: EIGHTH: Illinois Stallion Stake, 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, 1st Div, Purse $6,850: NINTH: Illinois Stallion Stake, 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $6,850:
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