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Fastest Qualifier Delivers in Hoosier Park Classic Final
Story by Emily Gaskin, Hoosier Park
Fillemup Phil turned in another dominating performance and remained
unbeaten in three starts to win the $100,000 Hoosier Park Class Final on
Oct. 13 at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino. The brown gelding by Brookstone
Bay set the fastest qualifying time of :20.122 for 400 yards in the
trials on Sep. 28 and posted a clocking of :20.292 to win by a length in the
final and notch his fifth win over Hoosier Park’s surface.
Ridden by Oscar Delgado for trainer Danny Lang, Fillemup Phil broke
a step behind Lovemelikethat and Shanley Jackson, but the five-year-old
gelding quickly found another gear en route to the wire. Fillemup Phil
sustained a late closing charge from the heavy betting favorite, Lovemelikethat
and Shanley Jackson who finished a game second. Air Born
Leader and Garardo Garrido, also a trial winner, overcame being bumped
at the start to finish third. Fillemup Phil didn’t disappoint as the bettors’
choice as he returned $6.40 for the win.
“He broke hard,” Delgado noted of his mount. “Everyone got a clean
break but he is a big horse so he may have been a step behind some of
them. The last 100 yards he was just running away from them, he just kept
getting stronger and stronger as we went on. He was on his game today.”
Bred in Indiana by Guy Trolinger, Fillemup Phil notched his fifth victory
in eight starts this season while bankrolling over $100,000. In his last
Hoosier Park outing, Fillemup Phil won an allowance event on Sept. 8
with Delgado in the irons, once again. Out of the Premiership mare, Miss
Reminice, the brown gelding is owned by Brian Gunder.
“This is just a nice horse,”winning trainer Danny Lang noted. “He likes a
lot of attention and a lot of care. Brian (Gunder) gave me a great opportunity
to train this horse and he’s been racing really great for us.”
The Hoosier Park Classic Final was just one of the ten Quarter Horse races offered
on the afternoon card. Tagged as Wild West Days, the all Quarter Horse
card featured Wild West themed activities, giveaways, and fun for racing fans.
Heza Door Prize Drives To Sterlie Bertram Memorial Win
Photos by Shelley ©
Story by stallionesearch.com
The lightly raced Heza Door Prize scored his second win in three
career starts Saturday afternoon as he caught Successful Dash and
Dezenzo to win by a neck in the $111,100 Sterlie Bertram Memorial
Stakes at Hoosier Park.
Under jockey Cesar Carrilo the 3-year-old son of First Prize Perry completed
the 350 yard course into a 10 mph headwind in :18.190 seconds.
The $61,105 winner’s purse swelled his career bank account to nearly
$65,000.
After finishing fourth in his only start at 2, the Jorge Gonzalez trainee
set the fastest qualifying time in his first start this season on September
29. Alberto Valdez owns the sorrel gelding out of the Heza Fast Man
mare Rectitude. Heath Taylor is the breeder.
Randy Thompson’s Successful Dash
was a game second, earning $22,220.
Thomas Mosley, Jr. trains the Cartel Success
gelding out of the Dash For Cash mare Rita Anns Dash. The
$22,220 place check boosted his career total to $92,473. Gerardo Garrido
rode the Bill Price bred 3-year-old who came into the race off three
straight wins.
Randy Smith’s owned-and-trained Dezenzo led earlier but had to settle
for the show check of $11,110. Diana Moster bred the Ivory James
gelding out of Hooked On Laveaux, by First Down Laveaux. Olivo
Victor was aboard the earner of $47,248.
Completing the field were Will You Perry Me, Dancing With Ducks,
Princess Royal Blew, Its Chilly, Shak Em Down Stoney and Chilled
Patrona.