Looking Back to Ideal Angel (08/10/10)

Posted Tuesday August 10, 2010

                                                                           By Mike Paradise

  This is another in a weekly feature exclusively on www.harnessillinois.com. Every week I’ll post a least one “Looking Back feature. Mostly they’ll be of the great horses who have competed in our state through the years. At times they’ll be pictures from the winner’s circle, special celebrations, and in some cases old memorable race track scenes. Some of these photos haven’t been printed or posted in decades . . . others have never been printed at all.
  
  Just by right clicking your computer mouse, going to “Save Picture As”, you can make your own jpeg copy of any Looking Back photo posted. You can e-mail them and share with a friend or maybe start your own computer file of “Looking Back” memories.

                                                           Looking Back

                                                                              IDEAL ANGEL
  
  One of a handful of horses to win back-to-back Super Night championships this daughter of Ideal Society is shown here capturing the $100,000 Ann Vonian Final with Dave Magee in 1994 at Sportsman’s Park as a four-year-old after a summer earlier taking the $182,000 Grandma Ann title at the old Cicero, IL track with Ronnie Marsh.

  Plucked out of Illini-Standardbred Sale as a yearling in 1991 by her trainer Mark Fransen for owners Michael Dockendorf, David Andalman and Steve Zatkin for only $8,500, Ideal Angel pulled own almost $300,000 in her 36 career starts in a 3 1/2 year racing span.

  In her three-year-old campaign she posted victories in 8 of her 9 season starts, and Magee and Marsh each drove her to four wins that included $56,500 and $27,500 stakes triumphs at Balmoral Park against her rival Incredashell.  As a broodmare 8 of Ideal Angel’s first 9 foals made the race track and 4 those took marks of 1:56 or faster.

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                       County Fair Report

  The two-day Williamson County Fair at Marion wrapped up Sunday afternoon a trio of Egyptian Colt Stakes. Jerry Mims’ Brentalkliketonto won his third consecutive ECS three-year-old trot in the opener and the Cotton’s Fox Valley Presto took his third straight ECS freshman pace in the second division for driver Brian Cotton. . . The first $1,800 juvenile split was the maiden victory for Elsia’s Model, a seventh length triumph in 2:00.3 for Ronnie Gillespie who also won the first Free For All Pace division with Fort Hamilton in 1:58.2 . . . The second FFA Pace went to Danny Zocco in 2:00.2 with driver-trainer Marcus Turner who led all Marion fair drivers with five dash winners in the two-day program. Brian Cotton was next with three victories . . . The County Fair Circuit moves to Belvidere, Illinois for a two-day meet that begins Tuesday afternoon with three Northern Illinois Colt Association events for two-year-olds. A pair of NICA races for sophomores will head up the Wednesday card of racing at the Boone County Fair at Belvidere. First race both days is at 12 noon.

WILLIAMSON COUNTY FAIR AT MARION

Sunday, August 8 Results

FIRST: ECS Three-Year-Old Trot, Purse $1,900:
Winner (Driver)    Time (Track Fast)
Brenttalkliketonto (Jerry Mims)  2:06.3
Trainer: Jerry Mims. Owner: Jerry Mims.

SECOND: Two-Year-Old Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,300:
Elsia’s Model (Ronnie Gillespie)  2:00.3
Trainer: Ronnie Gillespie. Owners: James and Terri Blackman.

THIRD: Two-Year-Old Pace, 1st Div, Purse $1,300:
Fox Valley Presto (Brian Cotton)  2:02.1
Trainer: Philip Cotton. Owners: Philip, Sherrie and Brian Cotton and Charles Lee.

FOURTH: Free For All Pace, 1st Div, Purse $750:
Fort Hamilton (Ronnie Gillespie)  1:58.3
Trainer: Ronnie Gillespie. Owner: Angie Nessa.

FIFTH: Free For All Pace, 1st Div, Purse $750:
Danny Zooco (Marcus Turner)  2:00.2
Trainer: Marcus Turner. Owner: World Class Racing.