December 22, 2024

Calder cards Summit of Speed Preview

Last updated: 5/27/14 3:17 PM


Four races comprise the 2014 Summit Preview, to be held on Saturday at
Calder, which serves as the local prep for July’s Summit of Speed sprint card.
All four races carry a purse of $65,000 each and are run at six furlongs.

The U Can
Do It Handicap
kicks off the stakes action and is for fillies and mares. The
Ponche
Handicap
follows and is for older horses. The three-year-olds take the stage
thereafter, with the
Leave Me
Alone
for fillies and the
Unbridled
to close out the stakes action of the day.

R Free Roll took on the boys in last year’s Summit Preview, dominating the
Unbridled by 6 3/4 lengths, and now she takes on the girls in the U Can Do It
Handicap. Since her Unbridled score, she’s won two additional stakes — the
six-furlong Bold World Handicap at Calder last November and the six-furlong
Hollywood Beach at Gulfstream Park in April.

Centrique took a even-furlong starter stakes at Gulfstream last year and was
third behind R Free Roll in the Bold World. Saint Aggie is the only horse
returning from last year’s U Can Do It. She came third in her stakes debut
before a seventh-place finish in the 7 1/2-furlong Hollywood Wildcat on the turf
at Calder.

The Ponche Handicap drew seven horses, four of which came out of the same
stakes race in their last start.

Dad’z Laugh scored in the 6 1/2-furlong Big Drama at Gulfstream on May 10 by
2 3/4 lengths. Risk Factor came second to Dad’z Laugh in the Big Drama, with
City of Weston fourth. The latter is a three-time stakes winner, including a
Grade 3 score in the Gallant Bob at Parx. Also exiting the Big Drama is Trinni
Heart, who ran sixth.

An improving contender is Mr. Baker, a swift winner against allowance and
starter allowance company in his last two.

A field of 11 will line up for the Leave Me Alone. Scandalous Act, the 2013
Florida Stallion Stakes series winner in the filly division, returns to for the
first time since her sixth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at
Santa Anita last November.

Scandalous Act easily took all three of the filly division races in the
Florida Stallion Stakes series, first scoring in the six-furlong Desert Vixen by
7 1/2 lengths, then taking the seven-furlong Susan’s Girl by 8 3/4 lengths, and
completing the sweep with a 5 3/4-length score in the 1 1/16-mile My Dear Girl.

Flutterby looks to return to the Calder winner’s circle after not having won
since her first career stakes victory, which came in the 5 1/2-furlong Cut the
Charm Stakes last November. She has hit the board in two of three stakes starts
since then — a second-place finish in the one-mile Chispiski in January and a
third in the 1 1/16-mile Calder Oaks in April in her most recent start.

Florida Sun came second in the Calder Oaks by 1 3/4 lengths and was most
recently ran third in the 1 1/16-mile Honey Ryder on the turf at Gulfstream on
May 10. Another on the improve is Gumara, winner in both career outings over the
Calder surface.

Nine horses are entered in the Unbridled. C. Zee comes in off of a win in the
one-mile Sir Bear at Gulfstream on May 3, which gave him his first stakes
victory. His best two stakes finishes previously this year came with
back-to-back second-place finishes in the six-furlong Spectacular Bid and the
seven-furlong Hutcheson, both at Gulfstream.

Elusive Blueboy won his stakes debut last year in the 5 1/2-furlong Excellent
Luck, and has since finished fifth in back-to-back stakes, including the Big
Drama in his last start. Bolita Boyz scored his first stakes victory in his
first try last year in the 6 1/2-furlong Juvenile Sprint at Gulfstream.

The stakes-placed allowance scorer Giancarlo, and the undefeated Gukumatz,
who has won two races by a combined margin of 11 1/2 lengths, are other leading
contenders.



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