The third of three extra added money events at Minnesota Downs will be held as the 16th race this weekend. A disappointing small field of 4 has entered the race with none of the local horseman taking advantage of the field but with most of the local trainers eyeing the big Minnesota Festival Day of Racing card in three weeks time it is understandable. The Minnesota Turf Dash Stakes for 2 year olds going 6 1\/2 furlongs on The Supertoy7 Marshall Turf course will offer a purse of $75,000.<\/P>
Let’s take a look at today’s field:<\/P>
1)MOON OF QUEENSLAND(JPN)—8\/5—<\/STRONG>graywolf5 sends this colt out of MOON BALLAD(IRE) with a record of 9-1-4-0 and lifetime earnings of $55,905. He is out of the mare WOLF OF QUEENSLAND who was 5\/41 at the track and who has 4 foals on record, all winners. This 138th divisional ranked colt races for the unafilliated division of the Wolf’s Den stables. This colt’s sire has a 69.3% winners rate with a 4.6% stakes winners rate and a 0.5% Graded stakes winners rate. This year 23.1% of his 2 year old starters have found the winners circle. This colt broke his maiden in his second lifetime start but has not found the winners circle in 8 races since. He has picked up 3 second place finishes in stakes events to his credit and returns to the turf today after a pair of lacklustre starts on the dirt. His top posted speed rating is an 80 which he received while finishing 8th in The Grade III Up North Juvenile in Maine over 7 furlongs on the turf. This colt runs best on the front end and his connections hope he never gets headed all the way around the track today. The rider for today’s race will be Merwtiz (6%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—78.<\/STRONG><\/P> 2)BOBCAT VALLEY(KY)—3\/1—<\/STRONG>focusforce sends this colt out of FOREST WILDCAT with a record of 4-3-0-1 and lifetime earnings of $88,672. This 63rd divisional ranked colt races for the Queensland division of the Nextbonus stables. This colt’s sire has a 74.3% winners rate with a 12% stakes winners rate and a 2% Grades stakes winners rate. This year 52.4% of his 2 year old starters have found the winners circle.\u00a0 After a disappointing debut on the dirt this colt has won 3 in a row on the turf including back to back stakes wins in North Carolina and Jamaica. He posted his lifebest 82 speed rating last time out while wiring a short 4 horse field over 6.5 furlongs on the turf. He has yet to be headed at any time in a turf race so far in his career. The rider for today’s race will be Bowen (19.5%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—80.<\/STRONG><\/P> 3)TEX DS(ENG)—2\/1—<\/STRONG>texasace02 sends this colt out of DANSILI(GB) with a record of 5-2-1-2 and lifetime earnings of $57,284. He is out of the mare VAL DS who was 5\/16 at the track and this is the only foal on record to date. This 343rd divisional ranked colt races for Lone Star Racing Stables based over at Del\/Penn National. This colt’s sire has a 46% winners rate with a 4.8% stakes winners rate and a 1.6% Graded stakes winners rate. This year 37.7% of his 2 year old starters have found the winners circle. This colt broke his maiden in his second lifetime start and came right back to win an allowance race after that. He was stretched out to 8 furlongs for his last 2 starts both 3rd place finishes including 1 stakes race and will be dropping back to a sprint here today. He posted his lifetime best 83 speed rating last time out and is a closer who will have some speed to chase but with only a short 4 horse field would probably prefer to have a larger group entered today. The rider for today’s race will be Friar (18%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—79.<\/STRONG><\/P> 4)EVERYDAY DREAM(ENG)—2\/1—<\/STRONG>hldurhrss2 sends this colt out of OASIS DREAM(GB) in his debut start today. This colt is out of the mare DANZIG IN VERMONT(GB) who was 10\/37 at the track and who has 4 foals on record of which 3 are winners including 1 stakes winner. This colt races for the Ldyssecret stables based in Vermont at The Patures of Green. This colt’s sire has a 36.4% winners rate with a 1.9% stakes winners rate. This year 31.8% of his 2 year old starters have found the winners circle. As per usual first time starter will be a dark horse entry here today. The rider for today’s race will be Ritorto (12.1%). PROJECTED SPEED RATING—NA.<\/STRONG><\/P> Well this short field will not offer much in the way of exotic prices but I may be willing to accept the 3\/1 odds on #2 BOBCAT VALLEY(KY) to make it 4 for 4 on the turf in his career.<\/P> SHORT 4 HORSE FIELD IN MINNY’S LAST RACE FEATURE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"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-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
GOOD LUCK AND GOOD RACING<\/P>
THEO <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"