A field of ten will be going to post on Saturday for the running of The Pasdequoit Special Stakes.\u00a0 The horses (3 years old and up)\u00a0will travel the six and a half furlongs over the fast dirt track for their share of the $105,000 purse.<\/P>
Let’s take a look at some of the contenders<\/EM> and pretenders<\/EM> of the race.<\/P> Drawing closest to the rail will be Mr. Frankie(IRE) (8\/1)<\/STRONG>.\u00a0\u00a0This six year-old out of Swain has won six of twentyseven lifetime starts.\u00a0 Winner of three out of seven races this year, trainer kyladar<\/U> figures this is the best time to step up against stakes class horses.\u00a0 Versatile horse can either run on the lead or just off it to win.\u00a0 Bugboy D L Jones(7%)<\/STRONG> gets the call.<\/P> To his outside and breaking from post two is the five year-old son of Seeking A Home, Art Home (12\/1)<\/STRONG>, trained by justlucky<\/U>.\u00a0 Highest earner in the field with just about three quarters of a million.\u00a0 Common fixture on a racetrack, he’s been to post fourtythree times winning eight of them.\u00a0 He has won an allowance and a stakes race this year sitting off the pace.\u00a0 C Euler(5%)<\/STRONG> rides.<\/P> Post three is filled with the four year-old son of Aldebaran, Special One(9\/1)<\/STRONG>.\u00a0 Special has won six of twentyfive and has finished in the money sixteen times.\u00a0 Comes back after just two weeks of rest stalpipo<\/U> has entered him in here in hopes of getting a quick pace up front to close in to.\u00a0 May get much needed help from jockey M Staples(21%)<\/STRONG>.<\/P> Hydrocarbon(17\/1)<\/STRONG> is the four year-old colt from Lemon Drop Kid.\u00a0 Winner of just one other than, this is a huge step for him.\u00a0 He has not won a race since Nov. ’05, that was also against three year-olds ans over a track rated good.\u00a0 Whoami2<\/U> throws him to the wolves here.\u00a0 Hydro’s only hope may be if\u00a0O Brim(8%)<\/STRONG> could gun for the lead and stay there.<\/P> Running in the color’s of the snowchief<\/U> stable is Civil Defense(6\/1)<\/STRONG>, breaking from post five.\u00a0 Winner of six out of twentyfive\u00a0 lifetime.\u00a0 Stakes winner on both turf and dirt, most recently the Carson Bingo in March of this year.\u00a0 Civil has not hit the board in the past four races. \u00a0N Bonus(14%)<\/STRONG> will try to light the fire under him and get this horses late kick into gear.<\/P> The public’s third choice Or Not Two Punch(5\/1)\u00a0<\/STRONG>saddled here by decker<\/U>, races from the six hole.\u00a0 Six year-old out of Two Punch has been racing with stakes types for a majority of his carrer.\u00a0 Another in here who likes to sit off the pace for one late kick.\u00a0 Goes out for the third time in ’06, won first out and didn’t pick up a hoof last race.\u00a0 Thirteen time winner has no problem finding the winner’s circle.\u00a0 J Bryson(3%)<\/STRONG> gets the mount.<\/P> Dank U Hollandia(6\/1)<\/STRONG> breaks from post seven.\u00a0 oostende<\/U> ships this handsome son of Broad Brush in from overseas where he last raced just two weeks ago.\u00a0 In that race he just narrowly missed winning by a head.\u00a0 Dank’s ’06 campagin has been with all types of graded and stakes class horses.\u00a0 Seems to like this distance, never finishing lower than fourth.\u00a0 R Simcox(15%)<\/STRONG> is confirmed to ride.<\/P> Brabamoon(IRE) (7\/1<\/STRONG>) is next in line for the brabant<\/U> stable.\u00a0 Four year-old son of Moon Ballad is still looking for his first stakes win.\u00a0 He seems to need the lead without any pressure to have any hopes of staying on for the win (or a share of the purse for that matter).\u00a0 Finished well up the track LTO over this course.\u00a0Last race he did finish in front of Sulphur.\u00a0L Jones(13%)<\/STRONG> rides.<\/P> The public’s second choice Sulphur(IRE) (9\/2)<\/STRONG> is trained by mainline<\/U>.\u00a0\u00a0Twelve time winning son of Giant’s Causeway is yet another who likes to race off the lead.\u00a0 Ranked thirtythrird in the dirt sprints he would love some pace to chase.\u00a0 Batting .500 this year in all sorts of company.\u00a0 Top jock, F Gossett(23%)<\/STRONG> rides.\u00a0<\/P> The favorite sits on the outside in post ten. Spank the Monkey(4\/1)<\/STRONG> is entered in here for the vegasjef<\/U> stable.\u00a0 This son of Dynaformer should get the perfect stalking trip on the outside to gun these down.\u00a0 He should enjoy this class as he’s been facing graded stakes competition.\u00a0\u00a0Speedy horse should be fit third\u00a0race off\u00a0the layoff.\u00a0 J Pimental(9%)<\/STRONG> is up.<\/P> The Bet: 9,3\/ 3,9,10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $20.00<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Field of ten get ready to sprint to the wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}