By Mark Ratzky, publicity – Cal Expo Harness
Give Me This Dance, an
impressive winner of both starts at this meet since arriving from Minnesota,
heads the cast for Friday night’s featured $15,000 California Sire Stakes
for 3-year-old pacing fillies.
Watch and Wager LLC will
present 10 races and first post is set for 6:45 p.m. The co-features are on
Open Pace featuring Dancin Lance and a Distaff Open Pace headed by Rockin With
Lou.
Give Me This Dance is a
homebred daughter of Wind Me Up who carries the banner of Alan and Cheryl
Sandbulte and is reined and trained by Nick Roland. Sent off the solid favorite
in both her appearances this season, she has not disappointed her many backers
with solid victories, lowering her lifetime mark to 1:56 2/5 with last week’s
score.
Wind Meup To Life was an
impressive victress in the most stakes clash of the season for the division,
while Cenatla Flash captured the initial big-money gathering for the
division.
Wind Meup To Life is a
daughter of Wind Me Up who goes about her business for Edwartd Gutin, is
conditioned by Richard Bertrand and will once again have Cordarius Stewart at
the controls.
She made her debut two weeks
ago in Sire Stakes competition and raced to 3-5 favoritism that night as
she tracked, attacked turning for home and went on to a five and a
quarter-length romp with Stewart. She was a strong runner-up to Give Me This
Dance in a conditioned event last week.
Cenalta Flash races for
Gordon, Helen and Myrna Empey with Gordon the conditioner and Mooney Svendsen
at the controls. She was a facile winner of the initial stakes dance of the
season on February 20. Completing the field are Toot and Anotherblazinwoman.
Chase The Gold
continues to sizzle
As if rattling off nine
straight victories isn’t good enough, Chase The Gold went out and paced the
fastest mile of the meeting last Sunday night while earning his third Sire
Stakes trophy in a sparkling 1:51 performance.
The Qks Racing-owned, Quentin
Schneider-trained 4-year-old took complete control of things at the half for
James Kennedy and then smoked home for the four and three-quarter length
victory.
On the same program, Kennedy
was also at the controls behind River Lassena for her impressive victory in the
Alan Kirschenbaum Pace. The daughter of Riverboat King goes about his business
for owner Mark Anderson and trainer Gordie Graham.
Meanwhile, Tink And Tiger
continues to make the most of his final year of racing, as the 14-year-old
pacer has posed for pictures after six of his 10 appearances this year and
three of his last four.
A son of Art Major out of the
Western Hanover mare For My Mom, Tink And Tiger is owned and trained by Rick
Bertrand and has found an excellent partner in Nick Roland.
While he may be racing at the
lower level these nights, he’s been getting the job done like an Invite pacer,
including last week’s mile when he was parked the journey and still waltzed
home with three and a quarter-lengths to spare in a 1:55 2/5 mile.
For the record, it was win
No. 45 from 344 lifetime outings for Tink And Tiger, who turned in a 1:49 4/5
lifetime-best tour nine years ago at Balmoral Park, and last week’s tally
pushed his bank account to just shy of $340,000.
