Hat trick in sight for
Walker Meister
By Mark Ratzky, publicity – Cal Expo Harness
Walker Meister, who comes
into this weekend’s action riding a two-race win streak, is scheduled to suit
up again in Sunday’s ninth race.
A 4-year-old pacing son of
Henry Clay, Walker Meister goes about his business for George Reider and Dave,
Rob and Kimberly Haness with Reider the conditioner and David Siegel doing a
return engagement in the sulky.
The first of Walker Meister’s
recent wins came off some class relief two weeks ago on a sloppy track, as he
inhaled the leaders at the top of the stretch and went on to a five and
half-length romp
With that confidence builder
under his belt, he came a sparkling :26 2/5 final quarter to hang a neck
decision on odds-on Hi Ho Houdini at most recent asking over firm footing.
“I’m glad I finally got the opportunity to get back behind Walker
Meister,” Siegel noted. “I drove him some early in the meet when George was
still figuring him out. Now, he has him going quite well and he has become a
much different and improved horse.
“He can be raced up front, or off the back like I did last week
when his final quarter speed rating was a prodigious 117. I was in an
advantageous spot behind Luke (Plano and Hi Ho Houdini) which helped a great
deal.”
Sunday’s assignment will see a rematch with Hi Ho Houdini, with
that rival landing the rail while Walker Meister will do his work from the
outside post in the compact cast. It should be interesting.
My Little Susie eyes
another stake trophy
My Little Susie, who
has posed for pictures following four of the five Sire Stakes for the
3-year-old trotters, heads the cast for Sunday night’s $10,000 main event at
Cal Expo.
Ten races will be presented
under the Watch and Wager LLC banner with the action slated to begin at 6:25
p.m. The trotting Sire Stakes occupies the third-race slot on the program.
My Little Susie is a daughter
of Claudius Augustus and the S J’s Photo mare Sue’s Photo who is owned by A
Piece Of The Action LLC, takes her lessons from Gene Vallandingham and will
once again be handled by Chip Lackey.
Overall, the bay miss has
captured eight of her 18 trips to the post, with her lifetime mark of 1:57 2/5
being established here in the February 28 Sire Stakes, where she sat a two-hole
trip and then inhaled the leader to win going away by four lengths.
In the most recent stakes
gathering two weeks ago over a track labeled “good”, My Little Susie was sent
off the even-money co-favorite. She sat third early, attacked the leader
turning for home and drew off in the lane to post a six-length victory. She is
the one to beat again no matter how things shake out early.
Kissed The Boys is the other
member of the cast with a stakes trophy, as she accounted for the March 13
gathering on a sloppy track. Another daughter of Claudius Augustus, she is from
the outstanding producer Charlotte’s Web and races for The Desomer Stables with
Steve Desomer in the sulky.
Completing the cast are Lodi
Bank Robber with Luke Plano; Delta Breezeoflodi for Pierre Girard; CW Rainette,
Steve Wiseman; and Sixstringsandapick, who will be handled by Mooney Svendsen.
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