Count Them Again gets Bold Ego triumph after stewards demote Five Pics Please
Count Them Again took the $65,000 Bold Ego Handicap through disqualification on Sunday, when first-place finisher Five Pics Please was demoted to second in the co-feature at Sunland Park.
The horses finished a nose apart. It was another half-length back in third to Flyin Falynn.
The disqualification stemmed from an incident at the start. The stewards ruled after an inquiry that Count Them Again ($36.80) was impeded by Five Pics Please.
Five Pics Please led throughout in the Bold Ego and covered the 5 1/2 furlongs on a fast track in 1:02.79. Count Them Again stalked the pace and rallied under Erick Medellin.
Count Them Again is a daughter of Premeditation who is owned by Lola Cuellar and Alexandria Cuellar and is trained by Raul Vega. She has a career mark of 9 for 16 for earnings for $367,126.
Bye Bye Matty P ($5) edged Massive Roar by a nose in the $100,000 Corralito Steak House for 3-year-olds bred in New Mexico. The one-two finishers dueled through fractions of 22.32 for the opening quarter and 44.68 for the half-mile before Bye Bye Matty P covered six furlongs in 1:09.75.
Bye Bye Matty P was ridden by Alfredo Juarez Jr.
Todd Fincher trains the son of Attila’s Storm for B4 Farms.