Familiar Triple Crown faces try turf at Colonial Downs
June 20, 2008 by Jarrod Horak
Filed under Handicapping, Horses, Jockeys, Miscellaneous, Racetracks, Stakes Races, Trainers
A trio of Derby-Preakness also rans will try to reverse fortunes in the Grade 3 Colonial Turf Cup at Colonial Downs on Saturday. The $600k turf event has attracted ten three-year-olds and will be contested at nine and one-half furlongs.
Court Vision won a pair of graded races as a juvenile, and began his 2008 campaign with a pair of respectable rallying show finishes in the Fountain of Youth and Wood Memorial. He donned the hood and finished a troubled 13th of 20 when last seen in the Kentucky Derby, and today’s surface switch may be just what the doctor ordered. …read more
