Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Plenty of potential in Fred Capossela Stakes

 

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Contact: Najja Thompson
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Plenty of potential in Fred Capossela Stakes
 

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A talented quintuplet of 3-year-old sprinters headed by Majestic Affair will vie to win the $100,000 Fred "Cappy" Capossela Stakes on Friday, January 2 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
 

Majestic Affair, a son of Majesticperfection, by Harlan's Holiday, enters off a second-place finish in the James F. Lewis III Stakes on November 15 at Laurel Park. After an 8 3/4-length debut victory at Canterbury Park the colt made an ambitious start in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special, in which he traveled three-wide most of the way and finished eighth. In his next start, he was roused sharply to a 1 ½-length allowance victory on October 13 at Parx.

"He's doing very well coming up to this race and we're happy with the way he has been training," said Chad Brown, who trains Majestic Affair for James Covello and Thomas and Dorothy Coleman. "We didn't have him in our barn for a long time initially, when we took a shot in the Saratoga Special. It didn't work out, but following that race he came back with a good performance at Parx, and I thought he finished second to a very good [Steve] Asmussen horse in Cinco Charlie in the Lewis."  
 

Majestic Affair is the 7-5 morning-line favorite and will break from post 3 with jockey Kendrick Carmouche aboard.
 

Coming off an impressive 5 ¼-length maiden victory in his first start, on the Cigar Mile undercard on November 29 at Aqueduct, Ship Disturber goes out for trainer Rick Violette and the Elkstone Group.
 

Making his stakes debut, Ship Disturber will break from post 2, and is 5-2 on the morning line with Jose Ortiz in the irons.
 

Joe Franklin, the 2-1 second choice on the morning line, will be making his fourth career start. While each of his starts have come at a different racetrack, a change of scenery has yet to bother the Bernstein colt. He has finished in the money in all three of his starts thus far and enters off back-to-back victories.
 

The Kelly Breen trainee began his career with a second-place finish at Laurel Park in September, which he followed up by breaking his maiden on October 3at Keeneland. In his most recent start, an allowance victory on November 29 at Penn National, he moved swiftly to the lead and was ridden out to prevail by two lengths.


Joe Franklin will leave from post 1 for owners George and Lori Hall with C.C. Lopez aboard.


Rounding out the field are Don Lupe, third-place finisher of an allowance race at Parx last time out, and Made Bail, shipping in from Maryland, who has two wins from four starts in  at Laurel Park.

The field for the $100,000 Fred Capossela Stakes:

PP

Horse

Jockey

WGT

Trainer

M/L

 

Odds

1

Joe Franklin (KY)

L

C C. Lopez

118

K J. Breen

 

2-1

2

Ship Disturber (KY)

L

J L. Ortiz

116

R A. Violette, Jr.

 

5-2

3

Majestic Affair (KY)

L

K Carmouche

118

C C. Brown

 

7-5

4

Don Lupe (FL)

L

A S. Arroyo

116

G Preciado

 

10-1

5

Made Bail (VA)

L

M Franco

118

S S. Cooney

 

20-1

 

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