Charged Legacy, Molly's Town score front-running stakes wins
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Charged Legacy and Molly’s Town scored front-running victories in Indiana-bred 2-year-old dirt sprint stakes late Wednesday afternoon. It just took Charged Legacy considerably longer to do so.
Charged Legacy ($8.20) shrugged off pace pressure and held clear a stretch bid from Nonofyourbusiness to win the $102,650 Back Home Again Stakes by 1 1/4 lengths. The winner clocked 1:12.81 for six furlongs on a fast track beating nine Indiana-bred juvenile fillies.
Molly’s Town, the odds-on favorite in the $102,750 Circle City, also took pace pressure all the way down the backstretch and around the turn, but no one got close to him and jockey Fernando de la Cruz in the final furlong, and Molly’s Town was timed in 1:11.87 one race after the Back Home Again.
The colts and geldings on paper were faster than the fillies, and that is how things played out Wednesday.
Molly’s Town ($2.60) is very fast by Indiana-bred standards: He got a 74 Beyer Speed Figure for a first-level allowance win and racing over a track that seemed a touch slow Wednesday, Molly’s Town might well have run back to that number. Trained by Genaro Garcia for Southwest Racing Stable, Molly’s Town has three wins to start his career. The gelding is by Mo Town out of Molly Slew, by Curlin, and was bred by Swifty Farms.
Goodlookinjustice, second to Molly’s Town in the allowance race, was second again, beaten three lengths, with Gracie’s Boy Roy a distant third.
Charged Legacy had beaten Gospel Music by 1 1/2 lengths in their common career debut Aug. 19, but the betting public made the Brad Cox-trained Gospel Music the 2-1 favorite. Wrong choice. Gospel Music ran early with Charged Legacy and paid the price for it, fading to seventh. Charged Legacy, under Joe Ramos, slowed considerably through the final three-sixteenths and Noneofyourbusiness had a chance at her, but the runner-up couldn’t sufficiently sustain her run and settled for second, almost seven lengths in front of third-place Primrose Girl.
Anthony Cunningham trains Charged Legacy, a homebred, for Swifty Farms, the venerable Indiana operation that bred both of Wednesday stakes winners. Charged Legacy is by Take Charge Indy out of French Legacy, by Midnight Lute.
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