Kenai Bob pointed for repeat in Assault Stakes
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Kenai Bob will attempt to win the $75,000 Assault Stakes for the second year in a row later this month at Lone Star Park.
Trainer Francisco Bravo said the July 17 race is the target for Kenai Bob, who is coming off a victory in the track’s Texas Hall of Fame Stakes. The Assault is one-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up bred in Texas. It’s the main event on Stars of Texas Day.
“I think one more race at Lone Star, then we might give him a little time off, kind of look for something next year,” said Bravo.
Kenai Bob set the pace and fought for a nose win in the Texas Hall of Fame, which was a 1 1/16-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up bred in Texas. The race was run in a posted time of 1:39.35 and was originally listed as a new course record in the official chart, eclipsing the standard of 1:40. But both the fractional times and final time of the race have since been adjusted, with the winning time now 1:42.25. Kenai Bob earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 80.
Bravo liked how the horse emerged from the Texas Hall of Fame.
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“We walked him after the race two days and he was just bouncing,” he said. “He was pretty full of himself.”
Kenai Bob is a son of Shackleford. The three-time stakes winner races for Michael Grossman.