Mines Made Up set up for repeat win

Yes, Mines Made Up did get a perfect outside pressing trip in an eye-catching maiden win May 19 at Canterbury Park, and he can get another one Tuesday in the $50,000 Victor S. Myers Stakes.

Mines Made Up has the outside post in a field of seven Minnesota-breds entered to race six furlongs on dirt in the Myers. Hot Shot Kid, a winner of his last three races, is the likely favorite for trainer Mac Robertson.

Joel Berndt trains Mines Made Up but only got the gelding this spring. A Bob Lothenbach homebred by Mineshaft, Mines Made Up made his first two starts for trainer Neil Pessin facing open maidens at Fair Grounds in January and at Keeneland in April. Those races set him up nicely for his first Minnesota-bred race, the May 19 start in which he pressed the pace and won by 6 1/2 lengths while never asked.

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The horse who finished second in that race, Johnny the Jet, has come back to win a Minnesota-bred maiden race by one length and a statebred-restricted first-level allowance by more than six lengths.

Hot Shot Kid, meanwhile, has raced five times already this year, and while he was dominant June 15 in beating older rivals in a Minnesota-bred second-level allowance over 5 1/2 furlongs, he surely has little room to improve less than three weeks later.

Fridaynitestar, another Berndt trainee, and Fireman Oscar, who races in blinkers for the first time, should show speed, and while Hot Shot Kid can rate just off that pair, Mines Made Up can shadow the likely favorite and just might be better than him.

The Myers is carded as race 4 with a scheduled post time of 2:30 p.m. Central.

Pinup Girl the play in Genter

Shipmate beat Pinup Girl in the Northern Lights Debutante last summer at Canterbury, and with luck, the betting public will play her as the superior filly again Tuesday in the $50,000 Frances Genter Stakes and allow Pinup Girl to go off at a very fair price.

Shipmate, trained by Karl Broberg, hasn’t raced since September and has the look of a filly who blossomed early and might struggle to duplicate her 2-year-old form at age 3. She has plenty of speed and should be prominent early, but there are other pace players signed on, and Pinup Girl could land a favorable stalking trip from her rail draw.

Trained by Sandra Sweere, Pinup Girl came from the back of the field to miss catching Shipmate by less than a length in the Northern Lights Debutante, and after a May 6 comeback race she needed to shake off rust, Pinup Girl has won a sprint allowance race and a route allowance race at this meet. She holds a fitness edge on Shipmate and came back from that June 9 two-turn victory to post two fast works. All signs point to success in the Genter, which goes as race 7 at 4:06.