Greeley and Ben remains perfect on the year
Greeley and Ben, who was one of the winningest horses of 2021, is now 2 for 2 in 2022 after running arguably the best race of his career in the $75,000 Stonerside Sprint on Sunday at Sam Houston.
“He was literally challenged the entire way, got headed, and just kept finding more,” said owner and trainer Karl Broberg.
Broberg said plans are to be determined for the horse, a $10,000 claim whose win in the Stonerside was his second stakes victory on the year following the Sam’s Town at Delta Downs. Last year, Greeley and Ben won 11 races, including the $150,000 David M. Vance at Remington Park.
“He’s none the worse for the wear,” Broberg said Tuesday. “He’s carried his weight well throughout a very ambitious campaign. He’s an amazing horse.
“I’m going to keep him at Houston. I don’t see anything on the immediate horizon for him. We’ll give him some time.”
The Stonerside was one of two sprint stakes on the Sunday card. Broberg also won the $100,000 Turf Sprint with Seven Scents.
“Two years in a row we claimed that horse on the exact same date, Jan. 6, and both times when we claimed him we had this same spot in mind at Sam Houston,” said Broberg.
Seven Scents, who races for Claiming Game Racing, was seventh in last year’s Turf Sprint and won by a length and a half Sunday.
“Last year we had a foot issue that troubled us throughout the year, and this year was golden,” said Broberg.
Broberg said that among the races being considered for Seven Scents’s next start is the $100,000 Colonel Power at about 5 1/2 furlongs on turf Feb. 19 at Fair Grounds.