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SLm Big Daddy Stakes
yOu can caLL mR eaRL
by John Moorehouse
you can now call You Can Call Mr Earl a multiple stakes winner. The four-year-old gelding logged his first victory in stakes com- pany since his rookie season, scoring a surprise win in the $37,500 SLM Big Daddy Stakes held March 16 at Remington Park.
Home-bred by Earl Leon Richardson, You Can Call Mr Earl collected his sixth win in 11 outs, and made his third
straight trip to the winner’s
circle. The $23,230 payday
improved his lifetime bank-
roll to $95,808. You Can
Call Mr Earl earned his first
stakes win in 2011 in the
Fort Erie Futurity.
Jockey Tony Bennett was in the irons and the rider helped You Can Call Mr Earl recover after a rough start. The gelding drew the No. 6 hole and was part of some contact in the middle
of the track as the field got away from the gates. Bennett kept You Can Call Mr Earl on course, however, and got the gelding to the front of the field by the time he reached the stretch. You Can Call Mr Earl led by 1/2 length going into the stretch and crossed the finish line still sporting that same margin.
Clinton Crawford trains You Can Call Mr Earl, who covered the 550
yards in :26.662 for a career- high 106 speed index. This race marked his first in triple digits. It is the second SLM Big Daddy Stakes winner out of Crawford’s barn, with Skyline Lover placing first in the 2011 version.
Richardson also home- bred Stawfly N Princess, a lightly-raced 2001 mare who has produced four starters among five offspring. Two of the four starters are winners.
Mr Truly Uno (Feature Mr Jess-Truley Yours), the heavy pre-race favorite at 1-2 odds and defending winner of the SLM Big Daddy, got caught up in the early contact and finished second. Sally Box is the owner and C. Dwayne “Sleepy” Gilbreath is the trainer and jockey Roy Baldillez did the riding. Big Chop (Jess Louisiana Blue-Annie Eye Over) placed third for Wootan Racing. The Toby Keeton trainee had G.R. Carter Jr. aboard.
A Splash Of Hell (Splash Bac-Come Hell Or Hiwater), Jesse In Town (Feature Mr Jess- Whatsthatfillysname), Hes A Real Stone (SC Chiseled In Stone-Show Candash), Dean Price (Dean Miracle-Designer Dash), Free Stater (Separatist-Free Bird Fly TB), Oh Cooper
Go (Apollo TB-Oh Strawfly Go) and Abreez (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Jos Wild Rose) com- pleted the field.
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First Down Dash
Sweet First Down
Sweet Bye And Bye
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Strawfly Special
Stawfly N Princess
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BLack ROSaLita
by Tracy Gantz
Jockey Ivan Carnero will always remem- ber Black Rosalita’s victory in the Grade 2 Decketta Handicap at Remington Park because it was the rider’s very first stakes win and only his fourth overall.
He began piloting the 4-year-old filly this year, finishing second in a Remington allow- ance race after they were squeezed at the start. In the March 30 Decketta at 350 yards, they drew outside and avoided the
tight quarters that occurred
closer to the rail. Black
Rosalita broke second with
a clear path to the wire. She
and Carnero surged forward
to collar leader Cruzin The
Wagon in the last couple of
strides and win by a half-
length in :17.431.
“She broke off a little slow, but she always breaks slow,” Carnero said of his ride. “After about 200 or 250
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yards, she started rolling out there. She’s a pretty good mare.”
The Dr. Francis L. Glowacki 97 Trust
of Queenstown, Maryland, bred and owns Black Rosalita. Luz Chavira trains the filly, who in 2012 won the Black Gold Derby and Charlie Claborn Memorial Stakes at Will Rogers Downs. Her Decketta Handicap vic- tory raised her earnings to $127,929.
Foaled in Maryland, Black Rosalita is out of the winning Tolltac mare Poneta, also bred and raced by Glowacki, Poneta has produced five winners in eight starters and is out of stakes-placed April Nine, an earner of $69,367.
Cruzin The Wagon (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Penelope Cruzin), the slight favorite over Black Rosalita, finished second with Stormy Smith in the irons. Brent Clay trains
the 4-year-old filly for Terry C. and Mary Louise Pursel. Cruzin The Wagon has won five earlier stakes in her career.
Miguel Banuelos’ Kuhl Wave (Wave Carver-Shazooms Doll) was a head back in third. Raul Gutierrez rode the 3-year-old filly for trainer Jose Aguilera. Winner of an allow- ance race in her previous start, Kuhl Wave was a $7,500 claim last year at Prairie Meadows.
Rounding out the field were Corona Mit Go (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Missy Mit Go), Eyema Special Candy (Oak Tree Special-Eye On This Candy), Eyesa Romantic (Eyesa Special-How Romantical), Send Candy Power (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Eye On The Candy), Candy Cartel (Corona Cartel-This Candys Special), and Card Party (PYC Paint Your Wagon-Annual Edition). Arbeka Raincloud was scratched.
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Tolltac
Poneta
April Nine
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