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FFA and Distaff Open Manage to Fill (08/07/10)Posted Saturday, August 7, 2010 By Mike Paradise The Balmoral Park entry box was a little sparse for Saturday and 13 races, one less than normal, will be conducted on the program. However enough horses were entered to have both top level $10,000 events for distaffers and for males fill. A surprise entry in the seventh race Filly and Mare Pace was the Trent Stohler Stable’s Ultimate Velocity, the best pacing mare on the Indiana circuit. This season the four year home bred has captured 6 of 7 Hoosier Park Invitational’s before a second place finish two weeks ago in a high conditioned pace at Mohawk. A daughter of Western Ideal, out of the Stohler’s broodmare Extreme Velocity, Ultimate Velocity has banked over $92,000 this season. Unraced at two, last season she won 5 of her 9 starts as a three-year-old including the $59,600 Circle City at Indiana Downs and the $31,340 Horsemen stake at the Indianapolis State Fair. In the Hoosier state of Indiana Ultimate Velocity has proven best in 12 of 14 career starts. However the 2-1 morning line favorite is zero for four outside of Indiana giving hope to the local continuant of mares in the seventh race co-feature of Dee Dee Sage (6-1, Del Chupp), Native Hotspur (4-1, Todd Warren), Cam Town Carrie (6-1, Dave Magee), Fox Valley Absolut (5-1, Bob Smolin) and My Heart Was True (9-2, Jamaica Patton). Cam Town Carrie is a four-time winner on the Chicago circuit since joining the Tom Harmer Stable and the four-year-old mare has nail down triumphs in 3 of her 4 starts since Dave Magee took over lines on the Florida owned daughter of Cambest. “I’ve raced her close to the front but she has versatility,” said Magee. “She can get home well off a trip. The filly is jumping up in class for this race but she’s racing well now and could be right there again.” Dave is also guiding Four Star Bling, another sharp Harmer trained horse in the eleventh race Free For All handicapped by groups with Thisbigdogwilfight (5-2, Todd Warren), Four Star Bling (3-1) and Well To Do Guru (7-2, Casey Leonard) landing the outside 5, 6 and 7 posts, in that order. “I like Four Star Bling,” continued Dave. “He’s a nice horse who is also pretty versatile. He showed that in Florida. At first when he came up here he didn’t respond real well but in his last four starts (all victories) he’s been pretty awesome.” The first four slots in the Free For All belong to Bonn Scott (5-1, Mike Oosting), Thisbigdogwilfight is coming off a convincing three-length victory in last Saturday’s $46,500 Big Tom state-bred stake with a 1:50.3 clocking. The seven-year-old gelding is now 2-for-2 with Warren at his lines and is looking for his ninth trip to the winner’s circle this year in 13 outings. His $833,955 career earnings are more than twice of any other starter in Saturday’s Free For All. To view Archived Notes and Quotes click here. County Fair Report John Prentice and Neva Grevengoed’s Fort Silky made every pole a winning one in Thursday evening’s $20,000 Taser Gun at the Brown County Fair in Mount Sterling. Nicely rated by Marcus Miller, the four-year-son of Ft. Apache Hanover out of the Prentice and Grevengoed’s Silky Stallone broodmare Delectable, held off a furious late charge by the heavy 2-5 favorite Big Daddy Woo Woo (Nick Prather) and posted a half-length victory in 1:57.4. The pocket horse Omaha Survivor (Mike Ooosting) took third, another quarter of a length behind. Marcus sent Fort Silky out from the three-slot and took the field through fractions of 30 flat, 1:00 flat and 1:29.4 for the gelding’s seventh season win in 25 starts and paid $9.80. Big Daddy Woo Woo who was seventh at the half zipped to a 27.1 last quarter but couldn’t overtake the winner . . . Trainer Tom Simmons drove a pair of his horses to victory on the card as Kansas Wildcat easily won the fourth race Open in 2:04.4 in front-end fashion and his Cooperstown Kid, a winner at Maywood Park last week in a straight conditioned event, rallied to a comfortable six length triumph in the first Mid-Western Illinois Racing Association 3-Year-Old Pace in 1:58 flat. The second $2,884 split went to the Garry Wilson Stable’s Andi’s Sister in 2L01.3 for driver Nick Prather, her second straight fair circuit victory. BROWN COUNTY FAIR AT MOUNT STERLING Thursday, August 5 Results FIRST: Maiden Colt and Gelding Trot, 1st Div, Purse $1,000: SECOND: Maiden Colt and Gelding Trot, 2nd Div, Purse $1,000: THIRD: Open Mare Pace, Purse $1,000: FOURTH: Open Pace, Purse $1,000: FIFTH: MWIRA Two-Year-Old Trot, Purse $5,878: SIXTH: MWIRA Three-Year-Old Pace, 1st Div, Purse $2,884: SEVENTH: MWIRA Three-Year-Old Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $2,884: EIGHTH: The Taser Gun, ICF Four-Year-Olds and Up, Pace, Purse $20,000: EFFINGHAM COUNTY FAIR AT ALTAMONT Thursday, August 5 Results FIRST: Three-Year-Old Open Pace, Purse $1,340: SECOND; Two-Year-Olds, NW 2, Trot, Purse $1,340: THIRD: Two-Year-Olds, NW 2, Pace, Purse $1,000: FOURTH: Two-Year-Olds, NW 2, Pace, Purse $1,000: FIFTH: Amateur Pace, Purse $475: SIXTH: Amateur Pace, Purse $475: LOGAN COUNTY FAIR AT LINCOLN Thursday, August 5 Results FIRST: Two and Three-Year-Old Open Trot, Purse $750: SECOND: Illini Two-Year-Old Pace, Purse $3,164: THIRD: Illini Two-Year-Old Trot, Purse $2,846: FOURTH: Illini Three-Year-Old Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,468: FIFTH: Illini Three-Year-Old Pace, 2nd Div, Purse $1,468 SIXTH: Topline Three-Year-Olds and Up, Trot, Purse $2,500: BOND COUNTY FAIR AT GREENVILLE Thursday, August 5 Results FIRST: Big 10 Three-Year-Old Trot, Purse $2,112: SECOND: Big 10 Two-Year-Old Pace, Purse $3,364: THIRD: Big 10 Two-Year-Old Trot, Purse $2,946: FOURTH: Big 10 Three-Year-Old Pace, Purse $2,637:
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