Monday, January 16, 2012
Contact: Jenny Kellner
I WANT REVENGE AMONG FAMILIAR FACES FOR EVENING ATTIRE
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Named for the venerable gelding whose career spanned eight years, Saturday's $75,000 Evening Attire at Aqueduct Racetrack has drawn a field of six veterans headed by 2009's Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner, I Want Revenge.
Now 6, the son of Stephen Got Even is 2-for-2 at Aqueduct, having taken the Grade 3 Gotham and the Wood Memorial before being scratched with an ankle injury from the 2009 Kentucky Derby as the morning-line favorite. He returned to run twice in 2010, finishing third to Haynesfield in the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap at
Owned by IEAH Stables, Resolute Group Stables, Puglisi Racing LLC, Dubb and Frimmel, I Want Revenge returned to the worktab in late November and has since been breezing steadily for trainer Rick Dutrow, Jr., most recently going six furlongs in 1:16.42 at the Big A on Saturday.
Ramon Dominguez rides I Want Revenge, the 7-5 morning-line favorite, from post position 2.
Jimanator will make his Big A debut in the 1 1/16-mile Evening Attire. He was claimed for $20,000 by trainer Michael Trombetta out of a winning effort in a seven-furlong off-the-turf race at Saratoga Race Course in August and finished second in his first start for his new connections, The 6-year-old Broken Vow gelding next took an allowance race at Parx Racing in October by 6 ¼ lengths and topped that with a three-quarter length win over odds-on Mambo Meister in the Grade 3 Fred W. Hooper at Calder Race Course on November 26, his first stakes appearance.
"I wish I could I say there was some special secret, but he's just gotten really good the past couple of months," said Trombetta of the Three Diamonds Farm color-bearer, who closed out 2011 with a third-place finish behind Heart Butte in the Auld Lang Syne at Parx. "We originally claimed him at
With a record of 2-1-1 from four starts for Trombetta, Jimanator has now won 10 of his 35 career starts and earned $249,040. Saturday, he will carry high weight of 123 pounds, including Cornelio Velasquez, as he leaves from post position 3 at 8-1 on the morning line.
Another who has had a light schedule in recent years is multiple graded stakes winner Redding Colliery, who in 2010 won the Grade 3 Lone Star Park Handicap and the Grade 2 Hawthorne Gold Cup. The now 6-year-old son of Mineshaft ended the year with a third in the Grade 1 Clark and was promoted to second through a disqualification, and after having time off to deal with foot issues returned in November to finish sixth as the even-money favorite in the Swatara at Penn National.
"The race at Penn National was a two-turn race, and he got tired," said Art Magnuson, assistant to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. "He's bigger and rounder than he was back when we first got him [in 2009] but he's been training well and he's ready to run."
Alan Garcia is aboard Redding Colliery, the 3-1 third choice on the morning line, from the outside.
Shipping in from the Mid-Atlantic is Eighttofasttocatch, the 2-1 second choice on the morning line who has won three of his last four, including the restricted Jennings Handicap at Laurel Park in December. Trained by Timothy Keefe, the 6-year-old Not For Love gelding will be ridden by Sheldon Russell from the rail.
Rounding out the field is supplemental entry Day of Destiny, claimed for $35,000 by trainer Doodnauth Shivmangal two starts back, and Stronach Stables' Thunder Ball, a winner of three straight who is making his American stakes debut.
The field for the $75,000 Evening Attire:
| PP | Horse | Jockey | Wgt | Trainer | Odds |
| 1 | Eighttofasttocatch (MD) | S Russell | 120 | T L Keefe | 2-1 |
| 2 | I Want Revenge (KY) | R A Dominguez | 118 | R E Dutrow, Jr. | 7-5 |
| 3 | Jimanator (KY) | C H Velasquez | 123 | M J Trombetta | 8-1 |
| 4 | Day of Destiny (KY) | I Ortiz, Jr. | 116 | D Shivmangal | 30-1 |
| 5 | Thunder Ball (FL) | H Vega | 116 | J Corrales | 12-1 |
| 6 | Redding Colliery (KY) | A Garcia | 118 | K P McLaughlin | 3-1 |
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