| "BEAR FACTS" Chandler Stakes Turf Paradise Phoenix, Arizona November 8, 2014 Purse $35,000 One Mile-Turf 1:36.56 WindyLea Farm, Owner Valorie Lund, Trainer Juan Gutierrez, Jockey Aware (2nd) Sunpenny (3rd) $18.80 $7.00 $5.20 Order of Finish - 3, 6, 8, 7 Please Give Photo Credit To: / Coady Photography |
The talent will be 3-year-old colts, geldings and fillies, the surface will be grass and the stakes will be high as the $35,000 Jeff and Jack Coady, Sr., and the $35,000 Chandler Stakes are featured this Saturday at Turf Paradise.
The Coady stakes will have six entrants, colts and geldings and the Chandler nine fillies. Both races will be contested at one mile on the turf course. The Coady stakes may be small in number but high in talent, starting with leading trainer Robertino Diodoro’s double starters of Edison and Twelve Tribes.
The 2-year-old picture got scrambled Sunday at Turf Paradise as longshots, including a first-time starter, won split divisions of the ATBA Fall Sales Stakes.
First-timer Flying Fiona at 30-1, with Dennis Collins up, came from off the pace to win the $53,555 fillies’ division. Worthy Grapes held second and another longshot, Libby, finished third in the field of 11 juveniles. Owned and trained by Kim Oliver, Flying Fiona ($65.20), a daughter of Quasimodo, covered the 6-furlongs in 1:12.33. If that wasn’t enough shock, one race later, 45-1 shot Best Asset, who was winning his first race, also rallied from far back, to overtake 1-2 favorite Highway Boss in deep stretch. Naomi’s Gift finished third in the field of 11 to win the $56.543 colts and geldings division. Ridden by Ronald Richard for trainer Dan McFarlane and owner Peggy Hopwood, Best Asset ($101.40), a son of Never Shamed, covered the 6-fulongs in 1:10.92. Both Flying Fiona and Best Asset are California breds. Free Admission Friday. Free Sweatshirts On Saturday. Sunday Dollar Day.
It’s Thanksgiving weekend. The turkey leftovers are in the fridge. You have a house full of relatives. The kids are bored. The malls are jammed. And you ate so much that trekking through shopping centers is as daunting as climbing Kilimanjaro. Turf Paradise is here to help. A trip to the Phoenix racetrack has become a holiday tradition. Turf has three days of exciting and inexpensive fun where you can watch and wager on live horseracing. Nothing like pitching a perfect game. Or, in the case of trainer Robertino Diodoro, a perfect day at the races.
Diodoro, the meets current leading trainer, raced five horses and won all five races on Friday’s eight-race card. The Diodoro win machine started in the second race with Woodlandsway ($5.00). Then Diodoro swept races four thru seven with Relatively Correct ($6.40), Boss Kitten ($9.20), Brenda’s Bar ($4.00) and Marcias ($3.20) respectively. |
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