Sire Midway Road Well Represented
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South Africa – The Prospects of Gold Memorial drew only four horses and this might be called – See if the sire Midway Road (a 20% winner from foals raced) is really worth a darn – as half of the horses entered are his get. However, the race was instead named after Prospects of Gold, a 9 YO horse by Scobie Ski. He won 15 of 57 starts including a Grade III stakes. He is the sire of one foal to race. His Memorial race will be run at a distance of seven furlongs over the fast main track. The four three year-olds will be competing for a purse of $65,000. Here is a look at the field by post position.
Trangalanga (5/2) is a 3 YO colt by Mountain Cat and is trained by Saratoga26. One of the more experienced colts in the race, he has won three of his ten starts, all in his last five races. He has a ton of speed from the gate and hasn’t been headed very often but he seems to have a small problem finishing a race. He has won at distances from 6 1/2 furlongs to a mile but he has been beaten in deep stretch at distances of 5, 5 1/2, and also at a mile after leading most of the race. It doesn’t seem to be the distance – but the wire that confuses him. He does have steadily improving speed figures and maybe he will put it all together on Saturday.
Tracktails will saddle Midway Dancer (2/5) in post two. This nice colt has won three of his nine starts and has also finished in the money in seven of those nine. He has won two of his last four including two stakes, The Light Jupiter and The Texas Monster (named after a horse yours truly campaigned many years ago). Midway Dancer finished a respectable 5th in the Grade II Can’t Wait For Nextweek stakes and was second last time out in The Tabasco Wavering. He has a good jockey on board and is another with improving speed figures. Don’t take this one lightly.
Crafty Moon (14/1) is a 3 YO son of Crafty Prospector and is conditioned by Irishman2. This will be his first time in a stakes event but he broke his maiden at seven furlongs and followed that with an allowance win over an off track. He comes into this race off a third place finish last time out going a mile and has a record of two wins from eight starts. Crafty Moon has some gas but I don’t think he has the speed to go with Trangalanga although with these lightly raced horses that are still learning, you never know.
On the outside will be the second of the two Midway Roads, American Midway (4/1) a well built colt trained by Queahora. With 11 starts he is the most experienced colt in the race and is a three-time winner. American Midway has finished on the board in two stakes races (third in The Oblivious Pod) and comes into this race fresh off a victory last time out in a
That’s the field and best of luck to all.