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joan scott ships in for battle of new orleans
· Mike Stidham Set to Saddle Two or Three Fillies to Face Cor Cor
By Graham Ross, Staff Writer
Two summers ago, she shipped a horse named Sheriff Bullock, owned at the time by Dan Considine and Pine Lake Bloodstock, up to
“One for one,” Scott said as she hosed Sheriff Bullock off in the tunnel prior to thei
Now, for the first time since 2003, Scott will be returning to Fair Grounds to invade Saturday’s $75,000
“We’re excited about her,” said Scott, speaking from the
Cor Cor made her career debut running over the Polytrack at Keeneland last fall, and easily broke her maiden with a front-running 2 3/4-length tally. Then, she made her next start in
But it should be noted that Kauai Katie had won Saratoga’s Grade II Adirondack and Belmont’s Grade II Matron before the Old Hat, and has since easily captured the Grade II Forward Gal at Gulfstream last Saturday.
As a trainer, Scott has an interesting background. She trained for nine winters at Fair Grounds but has not been to the
TRAINER MIKE STIDHAM SET TO SADDLE TWO OR THREEE FILLIES TO FACE COR COR – Trainer Mike Stidham, who has based his operation at Fair Grounds during the winter months for many years, is likely to saddle at least two fillies – and possibly three – to face Steve Ballou and Harriet Waldron’s Cor Cor in Saturday’s inaugural running of the $75,000 Battle of New Orleans.
Feel the Thunder Stable and Scott Unter’s My Princess Dawn and Ike and Dawn Thrash’s Truly Marie are the more likely participants, but David Soblick’s Livin Peace is still a possibility.
“My Princess Dawn has run and won on both surfaces (dirt and turf) so she’ll go even if they take the race off the grass,” Stidham said Friday. “Truly Marie has also run well over both surfaces. We tried her long but now we think she
“I’m not so sure about Livin Peace,” said Stidham. “She seems to like the dirt a little more than the turf. We ran her once on the grass up at Arlington, but that was the race that was declared no contest after a horse hit the rail and the rail came off and interfered with the whole field. That definitely affected her performance that day. I’m not ruling her out yet for Saturday. I’ll have to talk it over with the owner.
“That race (Saturday) is a good spot to get some black type,” Stidham concluded, “and that’s what we’ll be trying to do.”
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