VIRGINIA
HORSEMEN NEARLY SWEEP AT COLONIAL
Let's take a closer look
at Thursday evening's race program at Colonial and see where the winner's
come from. Round Hill based trainer
Simon Hobson won his first race of the meet with longshot filly
Chickadededee. Hanover's Karen Godsey
scored in the second with Music of Arabia.
Gloucester based trainer Leanne Hester got her first win of the meet in
the third race with longshot Deep Regret.
In the fourth race, Charlottesville owner Andrea McNeely's won with an
English Channel colt, Southern Bight who won convincingly as the favorite. Midway through the card, Bluemont's Larry
Johnson won with his homebred, What a Wildcat.
In the sixth, Varina's Ferris Allen trained I Am American to a win in
part to a patient effort by Sheldon Russell to find the wire. I couldn't find a Virginia connection in the
7th when Scott Lake's 10-year old True to Tradition won his second
race of the meet. In the featured eighth
McLean's David Ross Racing Stable won his second in a row with Southern Region
trained by Hugh McMahon. In the finale,
Felix Nuesch of Crozet (where the peaches are sweeter) won with his dear homebred
mare Annkathrin. When proponents of
racing in the Old Dominion worked to open a racing venue, these are the
horsemen they envisioned to perform.
QUOTE
OF THE DAY
A jockey was nicknamed sunshine because
he always came after the reins" - anonymous
HORSES AROUND
RAHYSTRADA who won the 2011 Colonial Turf Cup and ran
third in this year's edition is entered in Saturday's Arlington Handicap (5-1
ML). Of the three Romans' entries in the
American Derby, SILVER MAX, QUICK WIT and COZZETTI, don't be surprised if
Romans scratches one of those to run with FINNEGAN'S WAKE in the Virginia
Derby. Don't count on it, but don't be
surprised either.
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