Kickinitwithkohler
saves her best for last
By Mark Ratzky, publicity – Cal Expo Harness
Trainer Kennedy Lindsey
compares his 5-year-old trotting mare Kickinitwithkohler to a locomotive when
saying, ”She doesn’t have any gate speed, but she just keeps on building and
building up as the races goes on and then comes at the end.”
The Illinois-bred daughter of
Southwind Breeze races for Tonight’s The Night and has been under Lindsey’s
care since he purchased her two years ago.
She’s earned over $40,000 in
the interim and will be doing her work for the second straight time in the Open
ranks on Friday while racing against a familiar rival in . Silverlode.
“She’s got a big heart,”
Lindsey related. “Let’s just say her heart is bigger than her talent at this
point. But don’t get me wrong, if she ever learned to trot straight, she’d
really be something.”
With James Kennedy at the
controls, Kickinitwithkohler recorded back-to-back conditioned scores in
February, on both occasions coming from well back to win going away.
She is coming off a pair of
thirds at the head of the class versus the aforementioned Silverlode and in
between those two miles was the runner-up behind Lodi Dorian Blues in a solid
March 3 contest.
“If they go quick early, you
know she’s going to be pretty far back,” her mentor noted. “But you also know
she’s going to be coming at the end.”
Open Trot brings out
streaking Silverlode
Silverlode, who has rattled
off four straight wins at the head of the class with the last pair coming from
the demanding No. 10 slot, once again has that assigned post as she heads the
cast for Friday night’s featured Open Trot.
Watch and Wager LLC will
present a 12-race program with a first post of 6:15 p.m. The headliner will go
as the third event on the evening. There will also be a California Sire Stakes
for 3-year-olds to be decided as a non-betting race prior to the regular card.
Silverlode is an 8-year-old
homebred daughter of British Sterling out of the Website mare Charlotte’s Web
who is owned by Desomer Stables Inc, trained by Vickie Desomer and will have
Luke Plano handling the lines.
Silverlode comes into this
assignment with $155,000 in earnings and a 1:55 1/5 mark that was established
over this track last season. She is undefeated this year with Plano handling
the lines on each of those occasions.
The Desomer colorbearer left
into a pocket journey in the January 13 Open and overpowered favored arch-rival
Flameon that evening. She has been odds-on in her last three outings without
that foe in the line-up and has not disappointed her many backers.
Silverlode looped the field
to prevail by four and a half-lengths on February 11, then captured the
February 24 Open while doing her work from this assigned No. 10 post position
in game fashion. She changed tactics last week and made every pole a winning
one, putting her versatility on display from the tough slot.
Completing the cast are
Agrestores Comet with Mooney Svendsen; Fort Valley As, David Siegel;
Kickinitwithkohler, James Kennedy; and Lodi Dorian Blues, who will have the
services of Steve Wiseman.
