The sport’s leading three-year-old colt trotter, Father Patrick, will
race in the Bluegrass stakes at The Red Mile as the Grand Circuit meet
continues on Sunday afternoon. Fifteen colts were entered in the stake, Father
Patrick drew into the tenth race and will race for a purse of $93,100.
The Cantab Hall colt from Gala Dream comes in after a resounding
success in the Canadian Classic at Mohawk where he dominated the field in
1:52.4 after being outside the entire mile. That win put the pride of the
Father Patrick Stable over $1 million in seasonal earnings. He will start from
post one on Sunday with regular driver Yannick Gingras aboard for trainer Jimmy
Takter.
Also on the card are a pair of $86,700 Bluegrass divisions for the
sophomore trotting fillies featuring the potent duo of Lifetime Dream and Shake
It Cerry, also racing out of the Takter barn.
Lifetime Pursuit has been nothing short of sensational since her
Hambletonian Oaks win at The Meadowlands. She lowered the world record for her
age and gender on the mile track in that one at 1:50.4 and has since equaled
the world record on a five-eighths track with a 1:51.3 score at The
Meadows during her current six-race win skein.
Now a winner eight times in thirteen starts, the Cantab Hall X
Gala Dream lass is approaching $1 million in career earnings for owner/breeder
Brittany Farms. Yannick Gingras has driven Lifetime Pursuit to all of those
successes for Takter and will have the assignment from post two in the fifth
race on Sunday.
Shake It Cerry has been a model of consistency over her twenty-two
race career with seventeen wins and $1.4 million earned for Solveig’s Racing
Partners. She was at perhaps her career best in a dazzling Elegant Image score
at Mohawk her last start in a personal record of 1:52.1, winning by more
than nine lengths.
Shake It Cerry is by Donato Hanover from the prolific producer
Solveig. Jimmy Taker developed the family and has trained her throughout her
career. Ron Pierce has been aboard last year’s divisional champion for
virtually all of her starts and will drive from post two in Sunday’s eleventh
race.
Sunday post time is a matinee 1:00pm. Clubhouse dining is
available for all Grand Circuit cards and reservations may be made by calling
(859) 233-0814. More details are available by visiting The
Red Mile website.
