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<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A>Grade III
A mile and three quarters
Sloppy Dirt
$125,000
All horses, 4 years old and up
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PP\u00a0 Horse ID\u00a0 Horse\u00a0 Owner\u00a0 Jockey\u00a0 Odds\u00a0
1 RECKLESS\u00a0 topicount3\u00a0 S Camp\u00a0 11\/1\u00a0
2 SLITHER\u00a0 peeps6\u00a0 N Bedford\u00a0 2\/1\u00a0
3 LEMIEUX AGAIN\u00a0 mrfu\u00a0 Y Feese\u00a0 9\/2\u00a0
4 SOME CAT\u00a0 acarigua5\u00a0 W Williams\u00a0 12\/1\u00a0
5 FAN RUSTY\u00a0 alamshar85\u00a0 N Davis\u00a0 26\/1\u00a0
6 QUEST FOR RAIN\u00a0 deathstar\u00a0 B Morris\u00a0 25\/1\u00a0
7 KIELBASA KING\u00a0 horsechic7\u00a0 R Johnston\u00a0 10\/1\u00a0
8 MEGGIDO(GB)\u00a0 rvd\u00a0 K Salisbury\u00a0 11\/1\u00a0
9 XTREMELY GOLD\u00a0 grracers\u00a0 J Piotrowski\u00a0 7\/2\u00a0
10 GALAPAGOS\u00a0 industrial\u00a0 Q Miller\u00a0 7\/1 <\/P>
A field of ten will contest the Grade III IMedic.com<\/STRONG>, the first of four graded stakes on the rich\u00a0Pennsylvania card.\u00a0 The track has come up sloppy for the mile and three quarter event.\u00a0 It’s hard to evaluate the potential effect of the track condition since only two contestants have won over the off going and a few have never tried it.\u00a0 Here’s the field from the rail outward.<\/DIV>
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Topicount3 sends out her homebred Reckless<\/STRONG> in search of graded glory.\u00a0 The handsome, late running\u00a0gray was second last time out in a Tennessee stake at two miles on the dirt.\u00a0 In that event, jockey Isdell surprised everyone by sending the son of Wild Again immediately to the front.\u00a0 Reckless and Isdell opened up a huge lead and the pair were eight lengths in front turning for home.\u00a0 But the speed\u00a0tactics had taken their toll.\u00a0 The five year old shortened stride noticeably and was unable to switch leads.\u00a0 Graded winner Kris Noia took advantage of Reckless’ fate and rushed past him\u00a0at the eighth pole\u00a0en route to a four and three quarter lengths victory.\u00a0 A return to his usual late running strategy, or better rating on the front end, could\u00a0result in\u00a0a sharply improved effort.<\/DIV>
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Favored (2-1) Slither<\/STRONG> is a graded stakes winning millionaire.\u00a0 Peeps6 owns, trains and bred the flashy Deputy Minister chestnut.\u00a0 Although Slither seems most comfortable in the nine to ten furlong range, he did race very well in his last two starts at twelve panels.\u00a0 Two back Slither chased upset minded King’s Robbery(ire) home in Equinics’ Grade I Garrison.\u00a0 And last time out, in\u00a0an Illinois\u00a0Grade III, he closed strongly from far back to garner the show.\u00a0 Fast, fit, talented.\u00a0 Major player.\u00a0<\/DIV>
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Lemieux Again<\/STRONG> is an interesting horse.\u00a0 The\u00a0son of Storm Cat missed two years of racing while\u00a0his connections\u00a0were on a religious\u00a0retreat and mission\u00a0in equatorial\u00a0Africa.\u00a0 Mrfu turned his stock out for the duration of his mission.\u00a0 The time off didn’t hurt Lemieux Again.\u00a0 Quite the contrary.\u00a0 After a pair of nothing efforts as a juvy, he came back as a\u00a0real racehorse\u00a0at age five.\u00a0 Following a rust removing fifth, the now six year old reeled off three straight victories.\u00a0 As for the race at hand, L A could not be sharper.\u00a0 Two back he ran a bang up second behind the white hot Barb’s Adventure in an Irish\u00a0Grade II stake.\u00a0 And last time out, also in Ireland,\u00a0he crushed a good field in the fourteen furlong The Secret North Stake.\u00a0 Best effort puts him in picture.<\/DIV>
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Talented Queensland based\u00a0conditioner Acarigua5 sends out\u00a0his graded placed mare Some Cat<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 The\u00a0obscurely bred (Awesome Cat x Storm A Head x Antheus) five year old has raced almost exclusively on the grass.\u00a0 Two starts back she finished second in the Grade III Shawnee River Handicap and posted a solid 100 speed figure over the yielding turf.\u00a0 Last time out her event was rained off the grass and she sloshed home a soggy sixth of fourteen.\u00a0 If she can transfer her grass talent to the main course, she has an outside chance.<\/DIV>
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Fan Rusty<\/STRONG> is an appropriately\u00a0named colt since he hasn’t raced for several months.\u00a0 Unless he’s grown wings during the layoff, things look bleak for the son of Eastover Court.\u00a0 The steel gray seven year old with the distinctive Birdcatcher ticking has had no success beyond the 1X level and looks like he prefers much shorter distances.\u00a0 Trainer Alamshar85 is getting a little too ambitious here, methinks.<\/DIV>
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Next comes another longshot.\u00a0 Quest For Rain<\/STRONG> is a graded placed son of Rainbow Quest and the well bred but poorly performed Ninth Project (Explodent x Mr. Prospector).\u00a0 Deathstar’s four year old homebred needed twelve starts to break his maiden and has been in for a tag.\u00a0 His best races have come at the conditioned allowance level and he’ll need\u00a0a big\u00a0step forward in order to threaten this group.<\/DIV>
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Kielbasa King<\/STRONG> is an intriguing possibility.\u00a0 The four year old son of Polish Precedent is already in his fourth barn after having been sold twice and claimed once.\u00a0 Trainer Horsechic7 seems to have found the key to this one.\u00a0 Since claiming him for $20,000, she has coaxed a 3-3-3 record from him in only eleven starts.\u00a0 In fact, Kielbasa King is in career best form having just won a pair of allowances easily.\u00a0 This will be a huge test of class.\u00a0 But\u00a0I cannot\u00a0count him out entirely because, based on those last two glittery wins,\u00a0his upper limit has not yet been reached.<\/DIV>
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Meggido<\/STRONG>(gb) was a\u00a0very fine\u00a0runner in his prime.\u00a0 The six year old\u00a0stakes winner by Kayf Tara(gb) has racked up eight career wins and earned in excess of $600,000.\u00a0 He has hit the board in three of his last four\u00a0including a solid second at fourteen furlongs in a Rhode Island stake two back.\u00a0 But Rvd’s old warrior hasn’t won for a long time and his recent speed figures\u00a0place him a notch below the better ones in here.\u00a0 Has won twice and hit the board in five of seven attempts on off tracks.\u00a0 Your call.\u00a0<\/DIV>
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Gate nine will welcome the ultra classy Xtremely Gold<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 This five year old\u00a0mare by Touch Gold\u00a0is rapidly approaching two million dollars in career earnings.\u00a0 Since joining the GRracers barn three starts back, Xtremely Gold has been\u00a0very\u00a0carefully\u00a0managed.\u00a0 Following a solid second in an experimental turf marathon, she was victorious in Equinics’ Grade I Angel Cordero Jr.\u00a0 Then came another Grade I victory in California.\u00a0 Both Grade I scores were at fourteen furlongs on the dirt and both were accomplished in her usual deep closing style.\u00a0 Handles the slop just fine and her best effort puts her in the winners circle.<\/DIV>
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Trainer Industrial waited until Wednesday afternoon to drop Galapagos<\/STRONG>‘ name\u00a0into the entry box.\u00a0 The veteran marathoner will be making his twenty-fourth consecutive stakes appearance on Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0He has won seven of those stakes including the Bright Brush in Athens two starts back.\u00a0\u00a0A nose loss to multimillionaire Galloping Ghost in the Nashua Cup last year\u00a0is all that separates the big Lear Fan stallion from a Grade I win.\u00a0 Mid pack stalking Galapagos\u00a0still puts up some big numbers at times and looms a very serious threat in here.<\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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