6/26-27 (PrM): IA Festival (Oaks; Derby; Cornhusker, et al)

[Kasept]

7th (9:13) Saylorville S.

6 Furlongs | Fillies and Mares | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 1 P. S. U. Grad Bridgmohan S X Asmussen Steven M 120 BL 9-2
2 2 Lady Chace Thompson T J Margolis Steve 120 BL 4-1
3 3 Nadeshiko Mena M Foley Gregory D 120 BL 10-1
4 4 Miranda Diane Matz N Seaton Shane 120 BL 8-1
5 5 Adhsilver Coa E M Scherer Merrill R 120 BL 8-1
6 6 Nursery Rhyme Leparoux J R Wilkes Ian R 120 BL 5-1
7 7 Hadavision Ocampo I Smithwick, Jr. D. M 123 BL 6-1
8 8 Sly Storm Albarado R J Proctor Thomas F 114 BL 6-1
9 9 Theycallmeladyluck Doocy T T Von Hemel Kelly 116 BL 15-1
10 10 Lindsey's Wish Kaenel K Von Hemel Kelly 114 BL 12-1

Exacta / Quinella / Trifecta / Superfecta (.10 Minimum) / Pick 3 (Races 7-8-9) Pick 4 (Races 7-8-9-10) (.50 Minimum)



8th (9:45) Iowa Oaks (G3)

1 1/16 Miles | Fillies | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $200,000

1 1 Don'ttalktome Thompson T J Hicklin Judith A 115 BL 9-2
2 2 Sweet Relish Berry M C Von Hemel Donnie K 118 BL 7-2
3 3 Mein Fraulein Mena M Compton Greg 115 BL 15-1
4 4 Hooh Why Albarado R J Dupuy Donna L 121 BL 3-1
5 5 Peach Brew Hamilton Q Von Hemel Donnie K 112 BL 5-1
6 6 Sweet and Flawless Corbett G W Reed Eric R 112 BL 10-1
7 7 Hightap Bridgmohan S X Asmussen Steven M 121 BL 4-1
8 8 Monterey Street Ocampo I Magana Hector 115 BL 8-1

Exacta / Quinella / Trifecta / Superfecta (.10 Minimum) / Pick 3 (Races 8-9-10)



9th (10:17) Iowa Derby

1 1/16 Miles | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $250,000

1 1 Uno Mas Ocampo I Asmussen Steven M 113 BL 4-1
2 2 Proceed Bee Thompson T J Becker Scott 122 BL 9-2
3 3 Soul Warrior Bridgmohan S X Asmussen Steven M 116 BL 15-1
4 4 Terrain Albarado R J Stall Albert M Jr 113 BL 7-2
5 5 Conchacer Corbett G W Bennett Dale 113 BL 8-1
6 6 Moonport Leparoux J R Wilkes Ian R 116 BL 6-1
7 7 Duke of Mischief Coa E M Fawkes David 113 BL 10-1
8 8 Red Lead Berry M C Bridges Brandon M 113 BL 8-1
9 9 His Greatness Mena M Salazar Marco P 116 BL 5-1

Exacta / Quinella / Trifecta / Superfecta (.10 Minimum) Daily Double (Races 9 & 10)

[Kasept]

7th (9:13) Iowa Sprint H.

6 Furlongs | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $125,000

1 1 Native Ruler Ocampo I Richard Chris 121 BL 3-1
2 2 Bold Start Albarado R J McPeek Kenneth G 120 BL 4-1
3 3 Silver Edition Thompson T J Lukas D Wayne 117 BL 7-2
4 4 Eaton's Gift Desormeaux K J Romans Dale 116 BL 8-1
5 5 Sok Sok Leparoux J R Asmussen Steven M 117 BL 5-1
6 6 Semaphore Man Berry M C Von Hemel Kelly 120 BL 9-2
7 7 Ez Dreamer Corbett G W Owens R Kory 113 BL 10-1

Exacta / Quinella / Trifecta / Superfecta (.10 Minimum) / Pick 3 (Races 7-8-9) Pick 4 (Races 7-8-9-10) (.50 Minimum)



8th (9:45) Iowa Distaff S.

1 1/16 Miles | Fillies and Mares | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $125,000

1 1 Bear Now Albarado R J Stall Albert M Jr 114 BL 9-5
2 2 Day of Victory Thompson T J Holthus Robert E 118 BL 5-1
3 3 Euphony Berry M C Von Hemel Donnie K 123 BL 6-5
4 4 Celeritas Corbett G W Mamakos Jason 120 BL 8-1
5 5 Copper State Leparoux J R Asmussen Steven M 114 BL 9-2

Exacta / Quinella / Pick 3 (Races 8-9-10)



9th (10:17) Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H. (G2)

1 1/8 Miles | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $300,000

1 1 Stonehouse Compton P Broussard Joseph E 117 L 8-1
2 2 My Pal Charlie Albarado R J Stall Albert M Jr 120 BL 4-1
3 3 Red Hot N Gold Thompson T J Von Hemel Kelly 113 BL 12-1
4 4 Victory Pete Valdivia J Jr Barba Alexis 112 BL 6-1
5 5 Shadowbdancing Meier R Gore Terrel 115 BL 5-1
6 6 Wayzata Bay Ocampo I Hicklin Judith A 115 BL 10-1
7 7 Secret Getaway Desormeaux K J Stidham Michael 118 L 9-2
8 8 Jonesboro Berry M C Morse Randy L 119 BL 7-2

Exacta / Quinella / Trifecta / Superfecta (.10 Minimum) Daily Double (Races 9 & 10)

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Kasept

9th (10:17) Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H. (G2)

8 8 Jonesboro Berry M C Morse Randy L 119 BL 7-2

God I love this horse...

Can't wait.

[chucklestheclown]

Where is the last leg of the 50 cent pick four?

[robfla]

Originally Posted by chucklestheclown

Where is the last leg of the 50 cent pick four?

10th (10:42)

5 1/2 Furlongs | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Claiming ($12,500 - $10,000) | Purse: $16,774

Prg. # PP Horse Jockey Trainer Wt. Claim $ Equip. Med. ML
1 11 Nun Quicker Guillory H Groen John 120 $10,000 BL 20-1
1A 12 Major Stevens Pinon D Groen John 120 $10,000 BL 20-1
2 1 Frances Wild Gold Corbett G W Rarick Todd A 123 $12,500 BL 5-1
3 2 Friendly Glide Thompson T J Landers Bill 123 $12,500 BL 9-2
4 3 Six Gun Smokin Ocampo I Richard Chris 123 $12,500 BL 8-1
5 4 The Cliff's End Doocy T T Biehler Michael 117 $12,500 BL 4-1
6 5 Broken Connection Berry M C Donlin Larry D Jr 117 $12,500 BL 12-1
7 6 Main Asset Compton P Isom Nicole 120 $10,000 BL 10-1
8 7 Par's Last Spirit Campbell Joel Lamont Warren E 120 $10,000 BL 6-1
9 8 C. M.'s Song Lantz J A Hemba Brad 120 $10,000 BL 10-1
10 9 More Tri Laviolette B S Natale Michael 117 $12,500 BL 15-1
11 10 Fez Up Quinonez B Jacquot Gene 117 $12,500 BL 20-1

A-Coupled: Nun Quicker and Major Stevens

Exacta / Quinella / Trifecta / Superfecta (.10 Minimum)

[DaTruth]

$29 was pretty generous for Duke of Mischief.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

$29 was pretty generous for Duke of Mischief.

The pick 4 willpays were bullsh1t though. $579 for the entry? Parlay was over $1k.

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by philcski

The pick 4 willpays were bullsh1t though. $579 for the entry? Parlay was over $1k.

Like most tracks with small betting pools, Prairie Meadows has some quirky payouts for exotics. The quinella for the Iowa Derby paid $231; the exacta only paid $14 more. The exacta pool was $37k; the quinella pool was $2k.

[SkinnyKid]

I caught the tri in the race ,thought it was short(but was happy to cash after dry spell).I saw super payoff first, thought I really had something.I did not see pool.Does anyone know how terrian came out of it, did not look good.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

Like most tracks with small betting pools, Prairie Meadows has some quirky payouts for exotics. The quinella for the Iowa Derby paid $231; the exacta only paid $14 more. The exacta pool was $37k; the quinella pool was $2k.

Agree on a general basis- however in this instance there was $21k in the pick 4 pool which is more than enough to diversify the payoffs properly. Perhaps I was overestimating the qualitative value of beating Hooh Why plus getting the 15-1 shot in the Iowa Derby, but quantitatively it was quite short.

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by philcski

Agree on a general basis- however in this instance there was $21k in the pick 4 pool which is more than enough to diversify the payoffs properly. Perhaps I was overestimating the qualitative value of beating Hooh Why plus getting the 15-1 shot in the Iowa Derby, but quantitatively it was quite short.

I agree with you. You should have felt robbed if the entry would have won the last race and the parlay pays 2x the Pick 4.

[DaTruth]

I'm picking Secret Getaway in the Cornhusker. If Kent rides a smart race he will take back and let Stonehouse and Jonesboro take care of Shadowbdancing on the front end.

[my miss storm cat]

So happy to see Jonesboro win.

I don't have a link and couldn't find one but ummm... I had saved this so figured it was okay to post it.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Jonesboro trainer optimistic for Foster
Morse hoping for 'shocker'

By Jennie Rees
jrees@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

In deciding whether to run Jonesboro in Saturday's $750,000-added Stephen Foster Handicap, trainer Randy Morse could have gotten some encouragement from a couple of his fellow Churchill Downs horsemen.

Last year Ron Moquett won his first Grade I race when Seek Gold took the Stephen Foster at 91-1 odds. Three years ago Walter Bindner did the same when Colonial Colony, a last-minute entrant, won in the slop at 62-1.

"There have been some shockers the last few years," said Morse, who likewise would earn his first Grade I victory with a win in the Stephen Foster. "You never know, maybe it will happen again. Being realistic, he'll be a fairly long shot. There are some pretty nice horses in there. But it's horse racing. You never know what will happen."

Jonesboro, 15-1 in the field of eight older horses, has better credentials going in than either Seek Gold or Colonial Colony, neither of whom had won a stakes. The 5-year-old Jonesboro has won six races, including Oaklawn's Grade III Essex.

Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Calvin Borel, who won last year on Seek Gold, will ride Jonesboro.

The 1 1/8-mile Foster is the signature event of Churchill's Stephen Foster Super Saturday program, which features six graded stakes. Master Command is the 2-1 favorite; the Todd Pletcher trainee won Hawthorne's Grade III National Jockey Club and the Fair Grounds' Grade II New Orleans Handicap in his last two starts.

There is a lot of speed in the Foster, but Morse believes that will help Jonesboro, who has been in front for at least a half-mile in his past six races.

"He's been on the lead when they went soft fractions, and he really hasn't finished like I think he's capable," he said. "He won a stakes as a 3-year-old when they took him off the pace. We're going to definitely take him back."

Jonesboro is a son of champion Mom's Command, who in 1985 swept New York's filly triple crown and the Alabama while ridden by owner Peter Fuller's daughter Abby. The 25-year-old mare was euthanized a week before Jonesboro became her first graded-stakes winner in the Essex. Two weeks ago Mom's Command was announced as being a 2007 inductee to the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame after being on the ballot eight times without selection.

Morse bought Jonesboro as a yearling for $27,000 for owner Michael Langford, who is from Jonesboro, Ark. He also purchased Mom's Command's last foal for $30,000, the 3-year-old Tri Delt Girl, who will run in an allowance race Saturday.

In her early years Mom's Command was bred to blue-blood stallions (Danzig, Mr. Prospector, Alydar, Easy Goer) with limited success. Jonesboro is by Sefapiano, a son of the deceased Fappiano who stands for $2,500. But Sefapiano is out of Sefa's Beauty, who was a top mare around the Midwest around the time Mom's Command dominated the New York 3-year-old fillies.

"I was just looking at the (physical) individual," Morse said of buying Jonesboro. "But I've seen that happen in the past. They'll breed those mares to top studs and come up with nothing. Then they breed them to some kind of off-the-wall horse and -- boom -- they get a runner. It's all a crapshoot anyway. But you have Sefa's Beauty on one side, Mom's Command on the other."

The 5-year-old Jonesboro is lucky to even be alive. He won Oaklawn's Northern Spur two years ago to become Mom's Command's first stakes-winner of any fashion. Jonesboro came out of the race with a fractured cannon bone. He was off a year, came back briefly and was off for five months.

"With the injury he had as a 3-year-old, it's pretty amazing he's even running, especially at this level," Morse said.

He'll never win HOY but i think he's pretty amazing.

Cheers to him and to his connections.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by SkinnyKid

I caught the tri in the race ,thought it was short(but was happy to cash after dry spell).I saw super payoff first, thought I really had something.I did not see pool.Does anyone know how terrian came out of it, did not look good.

It was light as well.

Terrain has been euthanized, unfortunately.

[DaTruth]

Jonesboro was lucky to (barely) miss all that trouble caused by Stonehouse going into the first turn. A nice win by a well-managed horse.

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by philcski

It was light as well.

Terrain has been euthanized, unfortunately.

That is a shame.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

Jonesboro was lucky to (barely) miss all that trouble caused by Stonehouse going into the first turn. A nice win by a well-managed horse.

Um, I don't think Stonehouse caused all that trouble, it looked more like Victory Pete

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by Scav

Um, I don't think Stonehouse caused all that trouble, it looked more like Victory Pete

You are correct that Stonehouse wasn't the major guilty party. Looking at the replay and reading the chart, it looks like three horses caused trouble at that point. Stonehouse tried to bear out at the 15/16th pole. Victory Pete didn't want to turn left shortly after. The chart says that Red Hot N Gold checked hard at the 7/8th pole, but from the replay it looked like he was going to float Secret Getaway and Wyzata Bay wide before Victory Pete sent all three out to the middle of the track. I suppose the stewards didn't see much of a foul by Pete as they didn't kick him out of the 4th spot in the super.

[NTamm1215]

Nice win by Jonesboro, who is indeed a well-managed horse. This should have been the race where everyone became enlightened that My Pal Charlie is not a very good horse. At all.

NT