Mr. Jagermeister cruises to victory in Victor S. Myers

Mr. Jagermeister could’ve stopped for a shot and a beer at the three-sixteenths pole and still won the $50,000 Victor S. Myers Stakes on Wednesday at Canterbury Park.

As dominant as Mr. Jagermeister looked on paper – and he was a 1-9 morning-line favorite – it looked just the same out on the racetrack.

As jockey Leandro Goncalvez kept his mount well out into a good, sealed racing surface, Mr. Jagermeister clipped along on a narrow lead moving like a pony strolling through a field of clover. Goncalvez surely didn’t do more than chirp to his mount and Mr. Jagermeister buried four foes at the top of the stretch, opening an insurmountable lead still under a hold and galloping past the wire 6 1/4 lengths better than runner-up Speeding Kid. Without seeming ever to really run, Mr. Jagermeister was timed in 1:09.23 for six furlongs. He sent a good portion of the Independence Day crowd scuttling to the windows to cash their $2.20 win tickets.

Mr. Jagermeister has faltered against real, open competition, but he is well on his way to being one of the best Minnesota-breds ever, and his statebred restricted foes Wednesday never had a chance. Mr. Jagermeister now has won his four Minnesota-bred starts by more than 40 combined lengths.

Mr. Jagermeister was back on fairly short rest after failing to show his best trying two turns and turf June 23 in the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby but if trainer and part-owner Valorie Lund figured this would be a walk in the park, she was right. Mr. Jagermeister, a son of Atta Boy Roy and Frangelica, by Corinthian, ran his record to 5-3-0 from 10 starts. Lund said she’d set no immediate plans for Mr. Jagermeister. If he comes back in another Minnesota-bred race, the competition should plan to run to the other side of the backstretch.

Simran mildly upsets Genter

The heavy favorite in the $50,000 Frances Genter Stakes earlier on the Wednesday card, Firstmate, didn’t fare as well as Mr. Jagermeister. Firstmate never looked a winner at even-money as outside-stalking Simran was home by 1 1/2 lengths over Vidira, Firstmate third by a similar margin.

Simran ran six furlongs over a good, sealed track in 1:11.30, more than two seconds slower than Mr. Jagermeister’s winning time the next race. She got paid the same, though, collecting $30,00 of the $50,000 Genter purse in a race restricted to Minnesota-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Roopishwar Rampadarat bred and trains Simran, and Gaitri Rampadarat owns the filly, a daughter of Joey Franco and the Our Emblem mare Miss Cecilia. Leslie Mawing rode the winner.