For Immediate Release
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
LOCAL STAR TO TAKE ON BREEDERS’ CUP COMPETITOR AND MORE IN SPRINGBOARD THIS SATURDAY
OKLAHOMA CITY – The 2011 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season wraps up Saturday night with a program headlined by the top race of the meeting for 2-year-olds, the $300,000 Springboard Mile. The event will be drawn in the Remington Park racing office Wednesday morning and is expected to pit a local Oklahoma-bred force against strong competition from outside the state.
Ted’s Folly has put together a stellar 2-year-old campaign at Remington Park, winning five consecutive races including a pair of Oklahoma-bred events in last two outings. The Wild Tale gelding won the $79,000 Oklahoma Classics Juvenile in October followed by a score in the $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Stakes in November. Both events were at six furlongs, the longest distance attempted to date by Ted’s Folly.
Owned by Steve Martin of Morrison, Okla. and trained by Wilson Brown, Ted’s Folly has won five times from seven attempts and is undefeated at Remington Park. Overall he has earned $141,979. He put in a five-furlong workout on Dec. 2 here, going 1:01-1/5 handily.
Seeker, the fourth-place finisher in the Grade 2, $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint on Nov. 4 at Churchill Downs, is poised to end the streak of Ted’s Folly. Owned by Winchell Thoroughbreds of Las Vegas, Nev. and trained by Steve Asmussen, Seeker has been training well at Remington Park since Nov. 28 in preparation for the Springboard.
A Kentucky-bred colt by Hard Spun, Seeker handled five furlongs in 1:01 handily on Nov. 28 and then followed that with a sharp half-mile drill in :49-2/5 breezing on Dec. 5.
Seeker broke his maiden status in his second start at Saratoga in upstate New York this summer. He then finished third in the Grade 3, $150,000 Nashua at Belmont Park in New York City in October before his fourth-place run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint. Through four career starts, Seeker has one victory and overall earnings of $80,000.
Like Ted’s Folly, Seeker has never attempted a distance beyond six furlongs.
Belmont Stakes winning trainer Tim Ice has sent No Spin to Oklahoma City for the Springboard. No Spin ran fourth in the Grade 3, $100,000 Arlington-Washington Futurity at Arlington Park in September and then was sixth in the Grade 1, $300,000 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park in October.
No Spin comes into the Springboard off a victory in the $60,000 Royal Glint Stakes at Hawthorne in Chicago on Oct. 29. He has been training at Remington Park and posted a solid four-furlong breeze in :49 seconds on Dec. 4. Owned by Leonard Blach and Ray Willis, No Spin has won two of five career starts while earning $62,430.
Blach was part owner of Kentucky Derby winning longshot Mine That Bird in 2009. Ice trained Summer Bird to victory in the 2009 Belmont Stakes, a race in which Mine That Bird ran third.
Others expected to enter the Springboard on Wednesday, Dec. 7 include: Flashy Kid, third in the $200,000 Jean Lafitte Stakes at Delta Downs in Vinton, La. in October; Isn’t He Clever, second in the $100,000 Clever Trevor Stakes here in November; King Coral, winner of an allowance race here on Nov. 17; Reckless Jerry, a winner of two straight races this season including an allowance at one mile on Oct. 29; Mr Bluegrass Music, third in the Clever Trevor Stakes; and Fire Alarm, fourth in an allowance event at Churchill Downs in October.
The 2011 Remington Park Thoroughbred Season moves into its final week of action with racing Wednesday thru Saturday, Dec. 7-10, beginning at 6:30pm nightly.
Open daily at 10am for casino gaming and simulcast racing, Remington Park also features Henry Hudson’s and the Bricktown Brewery, both opening daily at 11am. Admission, general parking and valet parking are always free at Remington Park.
Remington Park is Oklahoma City’s only Racetrack & Casino, located at the junction of Interstates 35 & 44, in the heart of the Oklahoma City Adventure District. For more information, reservations and group bookings please call 405-424-1000, 866-456-9880 or visit remingtonpark.com.
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