Forty Five Red, the 1:55.4 winner of the $111,250 Sheppard
Final, will be among the 25 sophomore colt and gelding pacers that will be
featured in the $130,000 NY Sires Stakes at Monticello
Raceway on Thursday , August 1.
The four stellar NYSS splits, each going for over $32,000,
will be accompanied by five $12,700 divisions of freshman pacing colts in the
$63,000 Excelsior Series.
Although Forty Five Red, a son of If I Can Dream-Sekura
Hanover owned by Burke Racing and Our Horse Cents Stable, has already
bankrolled over $84,000 in just three starts it’ll be no cake-walk for trainer
Ron Burke when they face the Linda Toscano-conditioned Murder He
Wrote. That roan son of Kenneth J-JK Dancing Queen is undefeated in two
lifetime starts and can brag of a 1:53.1 triumph in the Geers Stakes at Tioga
Downs on July 19. He’s the property of the Camelot Stable.
Forty Five Red will leave from the two-hole with Yannick
Gingras aboard while Murder He Wrote will start from post position five with
Tim Tetrick in the pilot’s seat. The two good looking youngsters will square
off in the eighth race on the Mighty M card.
The racing program will open with arguably the most competitive
of the four NYSS events.
Ideal Trick, a son of American Ideal-Special Magic from the
Tony Alagna –barn already has a 1:53.3 record taken in a qualifier at the Big M
on July 13 and will start from the pole with Tim Tetrick aboard.
But competition will loom from both Western Conquest and All
Bets Off. The former, an Erv Miller-trained son of American Ideal-Aries
Conquest, owned by the Tanah Merah Farms sports two wins in three starts,
the fastest a 1:55.2 effort at Pocono Downs on June 20 while the latter, a son
of Bettors Delight-Armbro Penelope, out of Canada from the Mike Sinclair
stable, won his last start in 1:54 at Tioga Downs on July 21. He’s
owned by Rosemary Sheiswell and 1721009 Ontario, Inc.
Western Conquest will leave from the three hole for driver
Marcus Miller and Fern Paquet, Jr. will be up behind All Bets Off
when they start from post six.
In the fifth race, another NYSS pace, Jimmy Morrill,
Jr.’s New York Bets, a Bettor’s Delight-Absolutely Cam
gelding will tangle with Ray Schnittker’s I’m All Heart, also
an altered son of Bettor’s Delight but from Sealed In My Head.
New York Bets, owned by the Purple Haze Stable, owns a
half-mile track record of 1:56.1taken at Saratoga Raceway on June 28 while I’m
All Heart comes in off a 1:54.3 qualifying race victory at the Meadowlands on
July 20. He’s owned by Schnittker and the Creative racing Stable
However the Bob Rice-trained Keystone Honor deserves a look
in that contest. The Bettor’s Delight-Heavenly Killean ridgling, owned by
Mike Horn and Alexander Rice, will be making his first pari-mutuel start
after three consecutive qualifying victories at Harrah’s Chester the
fastest a 1:56 effort on July 23. Tim Tetrick will handle the driving chores
from post five.
In the fourth and final NYSS event going as race 12 on the
card, the Jimmy Takter-trained Thereisapaceforus is the early favorite from
post five. Yannick Gingras will drive the son of American Ideal-L’chaim
whose owned by Christine Takter and Brixton Medical Ab from post
five.
The five Excelsior Series affairs, all interesting and very
competitive will go as races four, six, nine, 11 and 13.
Post time for the 14 race card will be at 12:50pm.
