$109,000 Courageous Lady Saturday at Northfield Park
May 19, 2010
A well-matched field of ten three-year-old pacing fillies will contest Saturday’s Miller Lite Courageous Lady at Northfield Park, led by $10,000 supplemental entry Cowboys Dreamer.
Not originally eligible to the race, her connections, Lou Carlo and Joe Berry, paid the extra fee and their filly was made a 5-2 favorite by Director of Racing Secretary Dave Bianconi.
Racing in Canada, Cowboys Dreamer has win eight of ten races this year, taking a lifetime mark of 1:52.3 and earning just under $100,000. Kevin Wallis, who won the 2005 Courageous Lady with Beloved Angel, ships in from Michigan to drive the daughter of Hawaiian Cowboy- Mother’s Day Dream.
Second choice at 3-1 is 2009 Ohio Sires Stakes champ Hawk’s Cry Electra, who won six of seven races at two, banking $97,800. She won her 2010 debut last Friday at Lebanon Raceway in Southwest Ohio.
Owned by Joe Muscara and trained by Virgil Morgan, Jr., her regular pilot Dan Noble will make the trip to Northfield to drive. Third choice, at 7-2 is Sand Windsor, who drew post ten, making her one of two horses to start from the second tier. Sand Windsor was impressive winning an overnight race at Northfield Friday in 1:55.
The race, which honors long-time Ohio horse owner Jack Tramonte who passed away earlier this month, also marks the return to Northfield of driver Greg Grismore.
Grismore won driving championships at Northfield in 2003, 2004 and 2005, before departing for the East Coast. He has been listed to drive two horses, Allswelthatendswel and Retrieve A Rose. Driver choices will be updated by e-mail Thursday at about 10 AM.
First race post time on the 14-race card at Northfield Saturday is 7 PM Eastern, with the Miller Lite Courageous Lady scheduled as race 12, with an 11:05 PM Post Time. |
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