Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt’s Cinco Charlie dug in late to fight off
“I found a good horse.
“It was pretty much unbelievable to go all the way today coming off of one race
“This was very fun and exciting. There’s a lot of nostalgia here,” Corinne Heiligbrodt
The Steve Asmussen pupil took charge of the six-horse field from the break
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Those two slowly pulled away from the rest of the field turning for home and
were in a battle down the stretch. Cinco Charlie shook off that rival late to
edge away for a 1 3/4-length victory and remain undefeated from two starts.
Cinco Charlie took the field gate-to-wire in 1:10 1/5 for the six-furlong
test over the fast main track with Shaun Bridgmohan up. Sent off as the 6-5
favorite, the bay colt returned $4.60 for the win.
“He’s pretty precocious, a nice two-year-old and he makes my job easy,”
Bridgmohan said. “It was pretty straightforward. He broke smartly and was
comfortable the whole way. When I asked him to pick it up he accelerated and did
everything profession.”
Silverhill took second and was four-lengths clear of third-place finisher
Skyway. Lucky Player was another 8 1/4 lengths back in fourth, while
Governmentshutdown was last. Draw Nigh had to be pulled up and walked off.
“My horse ran great. He came out of the gate nice and was in a perfect
position. I might have rode with too much confidence — I thought I had him any
time I wanted him. But hat’s off to Asmussen’s team. They had the horse read to
run,” remarked Corey Lanerie, Silverhill’s jockey.
“He ran great. I was very happy with him. I’m disappointed to lose, but I was
very happy with his performance,” said Bret Calhoun, trainer of runner-up
Silverhill. “The colt that beat him is a very nice colt, I think, and I thought
we ran our race. When he loomed up to him on the turn I thought we had him, but
the winner just had plenty left for us.
“I really haven’t thought past today,” he added about what’s next for his
runner. “We’ve got the colt races up at Saratoga and we could go in that
direction, or take the lower road. I don’t know what we’re going to do yet. This
was kind of a last-second decision to come up here. We were pointing toward a
futurity down there (in Texas) and we decided to send him here — he didn’t get
here until Wednesday morning. It was just kind of a spur-of-the-moment deal. We
thought he was a nice horse and he belonged up here, but it wasn’t the original
plan. So I don’t know where he’ll go from here, but obviously there’s a lot of
two-year-old racing coming up in the next few months.”
Cinco Charlie wired his racing bow here last month by 2 3/4 lengths and now
has $93,422 in his bank account.
Bred in Kentucky by Candyland Farm, the son of Indian Charlie is out of the
multiple stakes-placed Marquetry mare Ten Halos, who is a half-sister to Grade 2
scorers My Pal Charlie and Bwana Charlie as well as Grade 3 victor Bwana Bull.
His third dam is Grade 3 winner White Mischief.
Cinco Charlie RNA’d for $95,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected
Yearlings Sale before being sold for $75,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall
Yearlings Sale. He brought $190,000 as a two-year-old in training at the 2014
OBS March sale.
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