Grand Circuit racing resumes at The Red Mile on Thursday, October 4th with a matinee post
time of 1:00pm. Week two features the International Stallion Stakes (INSS) for
all divisions of two year olds, beginning with the freshman filly trotters
returning to kick off the week’s events in three splits worth a total of
$293,300.
The INSS races begin with race two where Let It Ride
Stables and Robert Cooper Stable LLC’s Time To Kill looks to win right back
after a pylon skimming win in last week’s Bluegrass. The Muscles Yankee filly
took a record of 1:55.1 with John Campbell calling the shots for trainer Ross
Croghan. Shared Past was second in the same division last week and starts again
from the rail on Thursday.
The second division (race 5) features the remarkable
Credit Winner filly To Dream On. She has won six of seven in her freshman
season, earning over $378,000 for high profile owners Marvin Katz and Al
Libfeld. Her trainer Jimmy Takter has developed some very fine trotting fillies
throughout his Hall of Fame career and ranks her right up there with his
best. Yannick Gingras had the good fortune to pick up the drive last week and
made the best of it resulting in the easiest kind of win. Handover Bell stormed
home in 26.4 to grab runner up honors to the favorite last week, is improving
with every start and will have another go at the top choice.
The third and final division is carded as the ninth and
offers three returning division winners led by PASS champ Frau Blucher. Hauser
Brothers and Matt Tudisco’s Broadway Hall filly has won seven of ten for
trainer Chris Oakes and was a safe winner in 1:55- for Dave Palone last week.
This division also offers up a rematch between Aspidistra Hanover and
Upfrontluckycarol who shared a victory in last Thursday’s stake. At the
conclusion of a stretch-long duel the finish camera could not separate the
Hanover bred fillies and they dead-heated in 1:56.2.
Racing this
week is an all matinee affair from Thursday through Sunday. The Lexington Selected Yearling Sale
starts on Tuesday evening at 7:00 pm and sells each night through Saturday at
that time.
