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Barn Notes: Saturday, June 12, 2010
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PRAIRIE STATE FESTIVAL TO FEATURE PRINCEVILLE CONDO
Trainer Michele Boyce has been a strong supporter of
Surely the strongest of her possible
Boyce held Princeville Condo’s grass-racing talent in such high regard last winter that she sent the 5-year-old gelding to
The first test came in Fair Grounds’ $60,000 Buddy Diliberto Memorial Handicap on Dec. 26 over the
With that question of open company ability answered affirmatively, Boyce left the horse down in
The reason for that defeat was discovered the morning after the race when Princeville Condo was diagnosed with an entrapped epiglottis. The horse was sent to
Princeville Condo finally returned to the races May 15 here in the $100,000 Illinois Owners Stakes over Polytrack and finished second by a half-length despite the limited training.
“I was very pleased,” said Boyce after the race. “If he hadn’t been kept wide, he might have won it, and also it was his first time on ‘Poly’.
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“We’re going to give him a short work tomorrow morning,” said Boyce Saturday during training hours. “Hopefully, that’s all he’ll need to be at his best. He’s been training quite nicely in the mornings, and he’s always been a horse that stays fit.
“He’s won over every kind of turf,” concluded Boyce, “so I don’t really have a preference as to how it comes up, but safety-wise, I wouldn’t want it to come up too soggy.”
Including Princeville Condo, Boyce has nominated four horses in four of the six Prairie State Festival races. The others are Terry Biondo, Sally Lehnhardt and Cherrywood Racing Stables II’s Saygoodnightgracie in the $100,000 Lincoln Heritage Handicap for fillies and mares at 1 1/16-miles over the grass, Barr Three’s Happy Henrietta in the $100,000 Isaac Murphy Handicap for fillies and mares at six furlongs, and Barr Three’s Delightful Daisy the $100,000 Purple Violet Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at three-quarters of a mile.
“Saygoodnightgracie ran a nice race in her last start, but I’m not really sure of her status in this race (the Lincoln Heritage),” said Boyce. “I would say she’s about 50-50 to go in there.
“I think I would give Happy Henrietta a shot in the Isaac Murphy,” said Boyce. “She was coming off a long layoff in her last race but I thought she ran well. Of course, Christine’s (Janks) filly (Nicks) looks really strong in there. I would say she’s definitely the one to beat.
“Also, I was very impressed with (Purple Violet possible) Delightful Daisy’s last race,” concluded Boyce. “We put the blinkers on her for that last start and they seem to really have helped her focus on the task at hand. She seems to be rounding to form now. But I also thought Christine’s filly (Princess Ally Rose) ran a very nice race in her debut last time, so I would say that she would be one to look out for here, too.”
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