By Ray Cotolo, for The Red Mile
LEXINGTON,
KY— Jimmy Takter-trainee Manchego goes for her ninth-consecutive win in the
fifth of five divisions of the $330,000 Bluegrass Two-Year-Old Filly Trot on
Friday, September 29 at The Red Mile.
Starting
from post three, the Muscle Hill filly out of the Cantab Hall mare Secret Magic
has amassed $501,948 in earnings this season, including from wins in the
$330,800 Jim Doherty Memorial, $252,000 Pennsylvania Sires Stakes (PASS)
Championship, and $307,500 Peaceful Way Stakes. Purchased for $120,000 from
Lexington Select, Yannick Gingras will drive for owners Black Horse Racing,
John Fielding, and Herb Liverman.
Megadolce,
winless in eight starts, tries for a maiden-breaking performance in the opening
division of the Bluegrass. By Cantab Hall out of the Kadabra mare Bella Dolce,
the Richard “Nifty” Norman trainee has earned $43,971 with seven on-the-board
finishes this season. Andrew McCarthy drives for owner David Mc Duffee.
Front
Circle, a Muscle Hill filly from Conway Hall mare Sheena Hall, is the 2-1
morning line favorite in the first division. A winner of two races in nine
starts this season, the rough-gaited Ron Burke trainee has collected $72,232 in
earnings for owners Burke Racing Stable, Silva, Purnell, and Libby, Michelle
Yanek, and Weaver Bruscemi. Yannick Gingras drives the $110,000
Lexington-Select purchase from post two.
Charlie
Norris-trained and driven Sherrys Lady moves from the Kentucky Sires Stakes
(KYSS) into Grand Circuit competition, starting from post six in the second
Bluegrass split. A Muscle Hill filly from the Andover Hall mare Fraction,
Sherrys Lady has won twice in four starts this season, including a third-place
finish in a preliminary of the KYSS prior to a 1:56.3 lifetime-best performance
at The Red Mile. An $80,000 Lexington Select Purchase, Sherrys Lady races for
interest Coyote Wind Farms.
Nixie
Volo, another KYSS starter, looks to redeem a break in the $250,000 KYSS Final,
matching up against Sherrys Lady, from post four. Winning two races in six
starts this season, the John Butenschoen daughter of Yankee Glide from the
Windsong’s Legacy mare No I’m Not has earned $39,000 this season for owners
Kentuckiana Racing Stables, VIP Internet Stable, 83 Racing, and Eddie Gran.
Corey Callahan drives the $22,000 Lexington-Select purchase.
The
two KYSS starters will face 2-1 morning-line favorite Mooshka Stride, a Credit
Winner filly from the Donato Hanover mare Check Me Out. A $260,000
Lexington-Select purchase by Emilio and Maria Rosati, Mark Harder trains the
winner of one race in three starts, with her maiden-breaking score coming in a
1:55 mile in the Kindergarten Series at the Meadowlands. Andy Miller drives the
earner of $8,000 this season from post two.
KYSS
winner Top Expectations and runner-up Lily Stride battle in the third Bluegrass
division. Top Expectations, by Cantab Hall from the Kadabra mare Exceed
Expectations, has won twice in eight starts, most recently upsetting at 10-1 in
the $250,000 KYSS final in a career-best performance of 1:54.1. Owned by Daniel
Plouffe, the Erv Miller trainee has banked $168,378 this season, and will start
from post six with Marcus Miller in the bike.
Lily
Stride, sent off the 1-5 favorite in the KYSS final, was a neck shy of sweeping
the series for owners Emilio and Maria Rosati and trainer Mark Harder. The
Muscle Hill filly from the Donato Hanover mare Sterling Volo has won four races
in seven starts this season, earning $167,152, and was also third to Manchego in
the Jim Doherty Memorial. Purchased for $220,000 from Lexington Select, Andy
Miller picks up the drive.
Full
sister to Shake It Cerry, Swing It Cathy, attempts for her first win of the
season in the fourth Bluegrass division, facing PASS competitor Seviyorum. By
Donato Hanover out of the Yankee Glide mare Solveig, Swing It Cathy has earned
$19,456 this season for owners Christina Takter and Solveig’s Racing Partners.
The Jimmy Takter trainee will start from post six following a sixth-place
finish in the $240,000 Kentuckiana and will be driven by Yannick Gingras.
Seviyorum,
a winner of two races in six starts, starts from post one for owners Stroy Inc.
and Andy Miller Stable Inc. Earning $68,509 this season, the Julie
Miller-trained daughter of Donato Hanover from Self Possessed mare Armbro
Domino enters off a second-place finish in a Kindergarten prelim at the
Meadowlands. The hombred from Stroy Inc. will be driven by Andy Miller.
Post
time for the second evening of the Grand Circuit fortnight is slated for 7 p.m.
EDT.
