County Fair Report (08/02/10)

Posted Monday August 2, 2010

County Fair Report

Twenty two-year-old driver Terry Skinner had a busy and profitable Sunday on the Illinois County Fair Circuit. The Mississippi native started off Sunday afternoon at the Altamont Fair in Effingham County with a pair of victories and finished his day at the Southern Illinois’ White County Fair in the city of Carmi, some 115 miles down the road, with a winner that evening as well . . . At Altamont drove Storm Queen to her third season win in the second Big 10 Three-Year-Old Trot Division and followed in the next race steering his own freshman Problem Solver to a 2:02 clocking in the first Big 10 Two-Year-Old Pace, the son of Sportmaster’s fourth season triumph. Skinner had three more drives on the card and then left for the city of Carmi where he got behind Curtis Rice’s double Maywood Park stakes champion Little Miss Henry and took her to a five-plus length victory in the Egyptian Colt Stakes Association freshman filly division. It was the daughter of Henry Clay’s second win in three days on the circuit, having won at the Charleston Fair on Friday, and the filly’s third victory in seven days. Little Miss Henry made a winner’s circle stop at Urbana on July 26, a start that followed her second place finish in a July 17 Hanover stake at Balmoral Park. . . . Fox Valley Presto was an easy 3 and 1/2 length victor in the ECS two-year-old colt division for driver Brian Cotton and trainer Philip Cotton who also teamed-up to win with the ECS freshman colt division with Fox Valley Flight.

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Maywood Park Photo

Little Miss Henry shown here winning at Maywood Park with Casey Leonard.

EFFINGHAM COUNTY FAIR AT ALTAMONT

Sunday, August 1 Results

FIRST: Big 10 Three-Year-Old Trot, 1st Div, Purse $1,306:
Winner (Driver) Time
Smoken Homer (JD Finn) 2:06
Trainer: J D Finn. Owners: J D Finn and Dennis Garner.

SECOND: Big 10 Three-Year-Old Trot, 2nd Div, Purse $1,306:
Storm Queen (Terry Skinner) 2:06.2
Trainer: Robert Walker. Owner: Homer Henke.

THIRD: Big 10 Two-Year-Old Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,882:
Problem Solver (Terry Skinner) 2:02
Trainer: Johnny Rice. Owner: Terry Skinner.

FOURTH: Big 10 Two-Year-Old Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $1,882:
Madoff (Randall Finn) 2:03.2
Trainer: Randall Finn. Owners: Rex Sigler and Shirley Finn.

FIFTH: Free For All Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,020:
Jed Laag (Tannor Splitter) 2:18.2
Trainer: Tannor Splitter. Owner: David Decker.

SIXTH: Free For All Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,020:
He’s A Beachboy (Michael Pryor) 2:05
Trainer: Ray Hanna. Owner:David Wolfe.

WHITE COUNTY FAIR AT CARMI

Sunday, August 1 Results

FIRST: Maidens, Non Winners $2,500, Pace, Purse $1,000:
Winner (Driver) Time (Track Fast)
Phoebe Star (Ronnie Gillespie) 2:07.4
Trainer: Shawn Nessa. Owner: Iris Horowitz.

SECOND: Maidens, Non Winners $2,500, Pace, Purse $1,000:
Uncle David (Ronnie Gillespie) 2:06.3
Trainer: Shawn Nessa. Owners: Harry and Iris Horowitz.

THIRD: NW $5,000 Lifetime, Trot, Purse $800:
Attitudeofroyalty (Clay Simpson) 2:09
Trainer: Clay Simpson. Owners: Clay and Anthony Simpson.

FOURTH: NW $5,000 Lifetime, Trot, Purse $800:
Call Me Al (Harold Caughran) 2:09
Trainer: Cathy Finn-Kanitz. Owners: Adele Everett and Harold Caughran.

FIFTH: ECS 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, Purse $1,900:
Little Miss Henry (Terry Skinner) 2:03
Trainer: Curtis Rice. Owner: Curtis Rice.

SIXTH: ECS 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, Purse $1,800:
Fox Valley Presto (Brian Cotton) 2:03.2
Trainer: Philip Cotton. Owners: Philip, Sherrie and Brian Cotton and Charles Lee.

SEVENTH: ECS 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, Purse $1,500:
T’s Rank N File (Dennis Garner) 2:09.3
Trainer: Dennis Garner. Owner: Tina Garner.

EIGHTH: ECS 2-Year-Old Colt Trot, Purse $1,700:
Fox Valley Flight (Brian Cotton) 2:08.1
Trainer: Philip Cotton. Owners: Philip, Sherry and Brian Cotton and John Jackson.

NINTH: Free For All Trot, Purse $800:
Battleshoe Vic (Buddy Simpson) 2:04.2
Trainer: Clay Simpson. Owners: Buddy and Clay Simpson.