Tricks to Doo Eventful Maiden Winner Friday at Laurel
Tricks to Doo Eventful Maiden Winner Friday at Laurel
$600,000 Colt Wins Despite Broken Rein, Loses Rider After Race
Tizarunner, Liz’s Cable Girl Capture Co-Featured Allowances
Multiple Carryovers for Saturday’s 11-Race Program
LAUREL, MD – Neither a broken rein nor the finish line could slow down Lael Stables’ Tricks to Doo in his second career start, losing his rider on the gallop out and needing to be caught in the paddock following a 5 ¾-length romp in Friday’s sixth race at Laurel Park.
Both jockey Feargal Lynch and Tricks to Doo ($2.20), a bay son of Into Mischief trained by Arnaud Delacour, emerged unscathed from the $40,000 maiden special weight for 2-year-olds. The winning time for six furlongs was 1:09.98 over a fast main track.
Tricks to Doo, purchased for $600,000 as a 2-year-old in training in March, settled in second outside My Chinumado as the 45-1 long shot went the first quarter-mile in 22.54 seconds. Lynch, holding onto the colt’s mane after his inside rein broke, kept the 1-9 favorite in the clear and took command around the turn after a half-mile in 45.80.
Once straightened for home Tricks to Doo opened up on his rivals after going five furlongs in 57.77. Talon came with a late run for second, 2 ½ lengths ahead of Start With Yes in third. Tricks to Doo began to drift out past the wire and Lynch was forced to dismount as the winner took a right turn on the path that leads to the paddock, where he was quickly caught.
“We jumped out of the gate today and the first jump the rein snapped, so I just had to just try and nurse him around. He was much the best horse,” Lynch said. “Once he got past the wire he knew where to go back to the paddock and I had to just bail out.
“I was lucky I wasn’t hurt and the horse is OK, that’s the main thing,” he added. “I was steering him with just the mane and the bridle and I’m shouting for the outriders past the wire. She came over but by that stage the horse had already gone down to the paddock. That’s a first. That can go in the book.”
Tricks to Too, out of the Polish Numbers mare Doolittle, ran third by 2 ¾ lengths under Lynch in his unveiling Oct. 7 at Keeneland behind Rubus and Conquistador, the latter a $2.45 million 2-year-old in training purchase in April.
“He ran really well at Keeneland. He came up against two very nice horses,” Lynch said. “We always thought he was a really nice colt.”
Three Diamonds Farm’s Tizzarunner ($7), making his third start off a nine-month layoff, swept to the lead in mid-stretch and edged clear to win the seventh race, a $47,000 third-level optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up. The 4-year-old Maryland-bred Tizway gelding ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:40.29 over a firm Fort Marcy Turf Course for his second straight win.
Lisbeth Dodd’s Liz’s Cable Girl ($4.80) dueled with Mo’ne Davis through the stretch before surging late to earn her fourth win from seven starts this year in Race 8, a $45,000 second-level optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares 3 and up. The sophomore filly covered six furlongs in 1:10.62, giving jockey Forest Boyce her 700th career victory.
Multiple Carryovers for Saturday’s 11-Race Program
There will be carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6, 50-cent Late Pick 5 and $1 Super Hi-5 for Saturday’s 11-race program that begins with a 12:30 p.m. first post.
The jackpot carryover in the Rainbow 6 grew to $10,017.97 after going unsolved Friday, when tickets with five of six winners returned $126.76. Saturday’s Rainbow 6 sequence begins in Race 6.
The Late Pick 5, offering an industry-low 12 percent takeout, will have a carryover of $2,421.93 for Saturday starting in Race 7. Tickets with four of five winners Friday were worth $13.05.
A Super Hi-5 carryover of $7,074.48 will be available in Saturday’s opener, a $22,000 maiden claiming event at 5 ½ furlongs on the world-class turf course.
Notes: Trainer Patrick McBurney sent out a pair of winners Friday, Bobby the Boss ($12.60) in the fifth race and Liz’s Cable Girl ($4.80) in the eighth.
