Saturday's Grand Circuit
card at The Red Mile features the glamor boy
division and "The Captain" is in to go. On a night when two and
three year old pacing colt stakes dominate the ten race card for total purses
in excess of $650,000, the weather man is predicting favorable conditions
for a speed filled program.
Captaintreacherous
will face a solid group of six in the $95,500 Bluegress Stakes
event titled for his sire Somebeachsomewhere. He will begin from post five
in the third race with Tim Tetrick aboard the pride of Captaintreacherous
Racing for trainer Tony Algna .
"The Captain" had
a few weeks away from racing after his Cane Pace win, then had a good
tightener last week at Hoosier Park. The winner of the 2013 Meadowlands Pace,
North America Cup and Max Hempt Memorial, he is harness racing's top seasonal
money earner with just a hair less that $1.5 million and a career total of
$2.374 million in the bank.
A second division of the
Somebeachsomewhere goes for $96,500 in the eighth race with Little Brown
Jug heat winner Resistance Futile facing Battle of the Brandywine champ Sunshine
Beach.
Resistance Futile has
long displayed high speed and seemed to put it all together winning the
fastest "Jug' heat in 1:49.3, only eliminate himself from contention in
the second heat by going off stride while gaining ground on the final bend. Corey
Callahan retains the drive for trainer Blair Burgess, who owns the Real Desire
colt in partnership with JH Walker and Deo Volente Farms.
Sunshine Beach is the
only horse to finish in front of Captaintreacherous this season when he hung a
narrow defeat on that one in their memorable world record
"Battle" of the Brandywine at Pocono Downs. This Somebeachsomewhere
colt has been raced sparingly by trainer Mark Steacy and comes into
this race three weeks stale after skipping the "Jug" due to a
minor health issue. John Campbell gets the drive for owners Hudson Standardbred
Stables, Conrad Leber and Diane Bertrand.
Supporting the sophomore
stars are four divisions of the Bluegrass Stakes for two year old pacing colts
where the likes of recent Delaware star On Golden Ponder, NJSS champ and Metro
runner-up Western Vintage and PASS stars Limelight Beach and Sometimes Said
will try their luck over the red clay carpet.
Three year old filly
pacers will go in a single eleven filly division of the Bluegrass for $122,000
in the ninth race. The good Bettor's Delight filly Shebestingin is the likely
choice in this one off a strong season that has seen her pick up over $300,000
on the strength of seven wins for Val D'Or Farms, Ted Gewertz and L & L
Devisser. Joe Holloway trains and David Miller will drive the speedy lass.
Saturday post time is
7pm, the last of the night cards for 2013. Sunday racing has a 1pm post time
and that will continue through the balance of the meet. Find more at http://www.theredmile.com./
