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OCTOBER 14, 2019
Ajax Downs • $43,399 440 yards • :21.980 • si 96
Chicks Beduino
Country Chicks Man
COUNTRY BOY 123, ‘13-g. Very Dashin 123
Country Zevi Dash Thru Traffic
Very Striking
Alex Picov Memorial Champ.
COUNTRY BOY 123
by John Moorehouse
Country Boy 123 keeps rack- ing up stakes wins. Making his 34th career out, the six-year-old
gelding tallied his 10th victory in stakes company, taking the $43,399 Alex Picov Memorial Championship at Ajax Downs on Oct. 14.
Owned and trained by Ruth Barbour, Country Boy 123 now has 22 career wins, and the $22,256
prize from this event increased his total earnings to $344,930. He’s won the past three runnings of the Picov Memorial Championship, and nine of his 10 triumphs in stakes races have come at Ajax Downs. Country Boy 123 also is a three-time winner of the Ajax Downs Horse of the Year award.
Drawing the 2-gate, Country Boy 123 grabbed the lead by the first call and never relinquished it. He led by 1/2-length entering the stretch and held on to win by that same margin, finishing his 440-yard trip in :21.980 and registering a 96 speed index. Ed Walton drew the riding assignment.
Carolyn Bay bred Country
Boy 123 out of Texas Distaff Challenge-G3 winner Very Dashin 123. The mare has produced 100% winners from four starters. Country Boy 123 is her only stakes winner.
A pending matchup between Country Boy 123 and another multiple stakes winner, Had To Be
Ivory, never materialized. A winner of 11 of 14 prior starts, Had To Be Ivory had beaten Country Boy 123 head-to-head twice earlier this year. Express Your Desire (Desirio- Midnight Express B) finished second for Renee Wilson. The Tom Dunlap trainee had German Rodriguez aboard.
Maryland Magic (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Purley Un Social) hit the board in third for owner Milena Kwiecien and trainer Jason Pascoe. Shanley Jackson did the riding.
Had To Be Ivory (Ivory James- Had To Be Fandango) completed the finishing order. Zoomn
Blue scratched.
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