MIND OVER MATTER FEATURED IN $130,000 NYSS FOR 2-YEAR-OLD
PACING FLLIES
The first Monticello Raceway legs of New York- bred races
will commence Thursday evening July 4th and will feature the
$130,000 New York Sires Stakes as well as the $50,000 Excelsior Stakes,
both for freshman pacing fillies. It will be the second stop for the 2 year
olds en route to the $175,000 final later this fall.
A special post time for the 11 race card will beat 5:30pm
followed the best fireworks display in the Catskills which will be presented 20
minutes after the last race.
Headlining the NYSS events is Mind Over Matter, whose 1:55.1
victory on June 24th in Sires Stake action at Yonkers Raceway has
the Art Major-Serious Comfort filly leading her gender in a seasons record on a
double oval thus far this year.
The Greg McNair- trained filly is the early line favorite in
her $32,662 division and will leave from post six in the eighth race. Once
again Tim Tetrick will handle the driving chores for the Millar Farms of
Newmarket, ON, CA.
In another NYSS $33,262 split,--race six--
Scandalicious, a good looking daughter of American Ideal-The Company Store ,
also was a NYSS winner last week at Yonkers Raceway in 1:56.2 She will
have Andrew McCarthy in the pilot’s seat for trainer Scott Di
Domenico when she starts from post position five.
Local trainer Bruce Borden will send out the favorite Bettor
Chill Out in yet another $33,262 division, race three on the card. The
daughter of Bettor’s Delight-Just Chillin, owned by Joe Meany of Crestwood,
NY won her NYSS split at Yonkers in 1:57. Jeff Gregory will handle
the driving chores.
Tim Rooney’s Art Major-Cat Thief filly Clara, a 1:58.1
winner at Yonkers in her NYSS split there, will be the one to
beat in another $33,262 division. Trainer Larry Remmen has tabbed Jeff
Gregory with the driving assignment but they’ll have to overcome starting from
the seven hole in race two on the card that night.
The undercard will feature four $12,700 divisions for New
York bred fillies in the Excelsior Series. Of the 28 starters only one filly,
Spreester, has won a pari-mutuel race although that will change drastically
after the events are completed on Thursday.
Spreester, a daughter of American Ideal-Rodeo Spree won her
previous start in 1:59.1 at Saratoga Raceway for driver Jimmy Devaux.
Devaux will again be in the sulky for trainer Paul Zabielski
leaves from the five-hole in the fifth race. The filly is owned by Kimberly
Zabielski of Greenfield Center, NY.
