BARB’S DUBIA to go 5 for 5 ???
Ontario
Undefeated Barb’s Dubia highlight the Their Capote Challenge this week at Ontario, the 7f dirt race carry’s a purse of $75,000.
#1 BARB’S DUBIA will break from the rail as the 9/5 favorite. Undefeated in four tries, he’s just shy of $100k in earnings. The two time stakes winner is currently ranked 18th, and loves to please his fans with excitingly close finishes (3 of the 4 by less then a lenght). Last time out was a 3/4 win in the Babes Plates Stakes at 6.5f SP87.
#2 FREEDM SLAVE is 4/1-0-1. He struggled on the turf his first three tries, only winning once with a SP62. Switch to dirt last time improvement his SP to 79, and placing 3rd.
Needs to improve once again.
#3 EAGLE SWORD is 3/1-0-1 by Griffinite. He won 1st time out with a solid SP75 over 5.5f dirt, then placed a decent stakes 6th (against a field of 12), and last last out was allowance 3rd at 7f SP79. Needs to improve, but a top 3 isn’t out of the question.
#4 MAGPIES PARK is looks like he has potential, a son of Ecton Park ran 2nd first time out SP77 at 4.5f, then with added distance he won 7f’s with a SP79. Both msw against full fields, jumps into stakes company and could be ready for the challenge.
#5 STROLLPRINCE is the longshot of the field, Stroll x Pulpit. He won a msw 1st time out SP77 on 2405! But in his next three tries he failed to do better then 11th 🙁 Don’t you hate horses that run great fto then can’t repeat it. Breeder sigone, decide that was enough to slappy became the new owner (via auction?), a deadlast in nw2l resulted in a drop to the claiming rankes 6f $20,000. Mikeb most of saw untapped potential as he put in the claim, the result was a win with a SP71… Now a jump to stakes…
#6 THE USUAL is a solid colt by Hennessy x Roar, with a 3/1-2-0 record. Winner of msw 1st time out, SP77. He’s since placed 2nd in a pair of stakes, SP80 and 85. The last was the 6.5f Babes Plate where he placed behind today’s favorite Barbs Dubia, can he get his revenge today? We will see.