Lightfly\u2019s Desert<\/B> ran a solid effort, holding off a late threat by the favorite, and outlasting the rest to capture this week\u2019s North The Baby Bonanza here in Virginia. For those intrepid bettors who took the chance, he paid a nice $8.40 $4.60 $3.00 on a $2 bet across the board, generating a nice profit. This makes him undefeated in his first two career starts, with earnings of $42660, and he will be a horse to watch. Speeds were on the slow side in this one, but it was an exciting race, and nicely run by the top three.<\/P>
The majority of this one was a speed duel between Lightfly\u2019s Desert and Voss Hollandia<\/B>. The broke together from the gate, and quickly put over a length between themselves and the rest of the field. Into the stretch, there wasn\u2019t a quarter length between them, as they fought for any advantage they could find. Voss Hollandia claimed the early advantage, and he gamely held on to it right up to about a third of the way down the stretch. You could see him begin to tire though, and Lightfly\u2019s Desert swept past, not looking back and driving for the wire. Wigdan<\/B> was closing hard, coming from three and a quarter down at the half, but he couldn\u2019t catch the leader before the wire, settling for second place, a hard closing three quarters of a length back. Voss Hollandia hung on for third, one and three quarters out at the wire, but still well ahead of the rest of this short field.<\/P><\/BODY><\/HTML><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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