Cellist Towers Over Colonial Cup Rivals
Purebred Calumet Farm Cellist a game winner of the Louisville Handicap (G3T), considered the rank of an atypical field gathered on July 27 with a $150,000 Colonial Cup bet at Colony Downs.
A late bloomer who didn’t break her maidenhood until last February, George Arnold-trained Cellist won his first stake in Audubon Staking at Churchill Downs and scored the first ranked goal in Louisville on May 21. The 4-year-old son of the Eclipse 2015 Equestrian Champion Big blue kitten has consistently shown a penchant for route races throughout his career, handling the 1 1/2 mile Colonial Cup in Louisville and placing third in the 1 1/4 mile Belmont Derby Invitational (G1T) bets. ) and 1/5/16- miles Big Ass Dueling Derby fans at 3 o’clock.
Julien Leparoux still keeps her mount on Cellist. The pair will break from lesson 8 in field 11.
In addition to Cellist, this field includes Team Block’s Another mystery a recent winner against state breeders in the June 3 Black Handicap in Hawthorne Racecourseand Trinity Farm’s Red Knight . Pure Prize winner 8-year-old son will start for the first time in 11 months with new coach Mike Maker on Wednesday. Jareth Loveberry has a mount in Another Mystery, while Horacio Karamanos will join Red Knight.
Joining the battle are two bell tower teams, Quick decision and Happy giant . Snap Decisive, a former Phipps Stable colorist, was graded as a deposit on the premises before becoming a hurdle-break star for trainers Jack Fisher and Bruton Street-US. The Spin hard gelding hadn’t played fair for three and a half years but won the Colonial Cup with a 7 1/4 win on May 14 in the Calvin Houghland Iroquois Hurdle Stakes (NSA-G1) match at Percy Warner. The Decisive Snap will be piloted by Forest Boyce and broken from lesson 2.
Item: Colonial Cup S.
Colony DownsWednesday, July 27, 2022, Race 8
- STK
- 1 1/2m
- Courtyard
- 150,000 dollars
- 3 years or more
- 5:01 pm (local)