The stars of harness racing will light up the night sky in
Lexington on Saturday with the two and three year old pacers dominating the
twelve race card.
The Bluegrass fresman
colt pacers cover five divisions for a total purse of over $425,000 and yes,
the 'Captain' is in the house. Trainer Tony Alagna and racing manager Myron Bell have
directed Captaintreacherous through
a nearly flawless campaign for owners Brittany and White Birch Farms, Marvin Katz and
Joe Sbrocco,
picking up the hardware for the Wilson and the Metro and nearly $750,000 along
the way. The Somebeachsomewhere
colt has three sub 1:50 wins to his credit and comes into the race after a
brief freshening. The main competition appears to be PA Sires Stake champ Good
Day Mate and Canadian invader Apprentice Hanover in the eleventh race on Saturday.
Wake Up Peter
resides in the Alagna
barn as well and has not generated the headlines that his stable mate has, but
does show sneaky good lines and may well be the horse to beat the another
Bluegrass division (race 12).
Earlier on the
program, Bob McIntosh has Dress The Part looking primed for success in the
first Bluegrass division (race 2). He'll hook Dedi's Dragon, a colt on the improve from
the Ronnie Burke stableand Dovuto
Hanover, who has apparently recovered from an absolutely withering
trip in the PA Sires Stake final as the 1/2 favorite. Race 3 is another
division and Fool Me Once makes his state-side debut for trainer Mark Austin.
Our Dragon King is a very good PA colt from the Sam De Pinto barn and
the path to the winner's circle may well go through him.
The fifth
freshman division features the really fast Odds On Equuleus, trained by Robin Schadt
for Dana Parham's
Odds On Racing. He missed in the Metro final by just a neck is an obvious
favorite in his division. Johnny Rock and Rockin Amadeus provide the competion
here.
Also on the
big Saturday card are the three year old pacing colts and most of the marquee
players have shown up to race for $100,000 in each of the two divisions.
NA Cup winner Thinking Out Loud will again square off with the winner of the Meadowlands
Pace A Rocknroll
Dance in the seventh race. Those two have had more scrapes than Roberto
Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard and lived to tell of it. In division two (race 10),
Sweet Lou and Bolt The Duer will tee it up another time.
The pacing
fillies split into two $70,000 divisions and the divas are all in attendance.
The fifth race pits Jugette winner Darena
Hanover against world record setter from the Jugette first heat Shelliscape,
NYSS/Valley Forge champ
Romantic Moment and top PA talent Big Mc Deal. The other split (race 8)
features the remarkable American Jewel facing off against PASS final winner
Economy Terror and the darling of New Jersey Sarandon Blue Chip.
First post is 7pm
on Saturday night, don't miss it!
