THIS WEEK IN MINNESOTA—WEEK 3322
This weeks 10th race feature at Minnesota is The Independent Star Special Stakes for 2 year old fillies who will be sprinting 7.5 furlongs on The Supertoy7 Marshall Turf course. A compact field of 5 have passed the entry box and will be vying for the top share of the $60,000 purse.
Let’s take a look at today’s field:
1)SCOREBOARD GO(KY)—5/1—fab19 sends this filly out of BORREGO with a record of 4-2-0-1 and lifetime earnings of $38,376. She is out of the mare SCORECARD who was 3/23 at the track and this is the first foal on record. She races for the Great Plain Residency 2007 divisiona of the Fabman Farms stables. This fillies sire has a 34.5% rate of winners with a 5.5% stakes winners rate and a 1.8% Graded stakes winners rate. This year 33.3% of his 2 year old runners have found the winners circle. This filly has won 2 of 3 starts since switching to the turf in her second start. She posted her lifetime best 68 speed rating while winning a NW2L 8 furlong allowance race last time out in Connecticut. She drops back down to a long sprint here today and this will be her stakes race debut. She has displayed herself to be a closer in both of her wins to date. The rider for today’s race will be Ritterspauch (6.6%).
2)FIGHT IT(KY)—2/1—houseriot sends this filly out of WAR CHANT with a record of 1-1-0-0 and lifetime earnings of $16,500. She races for the houseriot group of stables based at the EAAA racing association. Her sire has an 81.5% winners rate with a 13.8% stakes winners rate and a 2.6% Graded stakes winner rate. This year 37.9% of his 2 year old starters have found the winners circle. After posting a win in her MSW debut last time out at Longchamp where she posted a 69 speed rating she has crossed the pond over to America to make her stakes debut here today at Minnesota Downs. She displayed poise in sitting back early in her only start and then started her move in the far turn and passed them all in the stretch drive. The rider for today’s race will be the apprentice O Man (13.3%) who has been having a very good 1st season in the saddle here at the Minny meet.
3)VACANT GLANCE(KY)—5/2—foxon3 sends this filly out of SONGANDAPRAYER with a record of 5-1-0-3 and lifetime earnings of $30,458. She is out of the mare INIGO MONTOYA who was 3/20 at the track and who has 2 foals on record of which both are winners. She races for the Patures of Green division of The Foxon Stables located in Vermont. Her sire has a 63.6% winner rate with a 3.6% stakes winners rate. This year 28.1% of his 2 year old starters have found the winners circle. This filly switched to the turf after 2 starts on the dirt to begin her career and she has shown a speed rating improvement with each start. She posted her lifetime best 71 speed rating last time out in the 6 furlong The Sir Achievment Memorial Stakes in Upper New York where she cut most of the fractions before finsishing 3rd beaten a head. She should be the filly who will be cutting the early fractions today and hopefully she will be able to display some stamina to handle the extra distance in today’s race. The rider for today’s race will be Bowen (20%) who holds a 1 race edge in the tight Minnesota Downs rider standings this year.
4)MILLVIEW WINDERS(NZ)—24/1—millview10 sends this filly out of PINS(AUS) who will be making her debut start in this stakes race today. She races for the Deep Rock Stables based in Ohio. This fillies sire has a 32.4% winners rate with a 2.9% stakes winners rate. This year 50% of his 2 year old starters have found the winners circle. The rider for today’s race will be Zandofsky (2.9%).
5)BODOG BANDIT(KY)—6/5—turfking32 sends this filly out of UNBRIDLED’S SONG with a record of 5-2-3-0 and lifetime earnings of $82,485. She is out of the mare DANDY WELLS who was 2/30 at the track and who has 3 foals on record, all winners including 1 stakes winner. This 27th divisional ranked filly runs for the independent turfking32 stable. While she broke her maiden in her 2nd start on the dirt she has come back to race in 3 turf overnite stakes races and has posted 3 straight 70+ speed ratings with the highest being a 77 posted 2 starts back in Rhode Island over 6 furlongs on the turf. She is the only stakes winner in the field after winning her last start, The Nana’s Girl Memorial Stakes in Utah over 6.5 furlongs on the turf. Her closing style suggests she will welcome the extra yardage in today’s race. The rider for today’s race will be Friar (18.6%) who is currently in a dogfight for the riding title here at Minnesota Downs.
THERE ARE NO HORSES ELIGIBLE FOR THE MINNESOTA DOWNS RESIDENCY 200 CREDIT PURSE SUPPLEMENT THIS WEEK.
WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE MINNESOTA DOWNS RESIDENCE THIS WEEK
Doza captured the high speed rating contest last week when his horse SUNDAY’S RULE posted a 104 speed rating.
Nameless had the winning ticket in the Pick4 last week and took home the jackpot of 800 credits. The pool starts at 500 credits this week and goes up 50 credits each week it is not won.
With 3 weeks to go Tseals holds a big $87 lead in the Mountains of Money contest that tallies up the win/place/show prices of your selected horses each week.
Wenlock made sure he learned from his mistakes second time around and made it up to the Mt Everest Summit and took home the 1000 credit prize. Last time he was one step away from the summit when he slipped and fell all the way down to the bottom.
This week’s Chuckrock Minnesota Downs Horse of the Week is “This week I’m giving the award to a horse that almost won it a couple of races ago, but didn’t in a narrow decision by the voting committee (me).
NOTIN TO CRY ABOUT(AUS) is a 2 year old filly in the wins stable for Migs. In case you haven’t heard just yet, she is the number one ranked filly on turf in her age group for all three distances. This week she won against a short field in France over 6 furlongs on the grass, a race called The JOANIE’S RED PONY Memorial.
NTCA has won 4 out of 5 races including a grade 1. The filly is anything but regally bred with a lineage of NOTHING TO LOSE X SHAADI X COMPLIANCE.
NTCA has already won over 300k for migs and she looks to have a bright future ahead of her. Congrats to Notin to cry about and migs!” Congrats to Mig on his horse winning this week.
GOOD LUCK AND GOOD RACING
THEO