My Boanerges revels in sloppy track to win Chamberlain Bridge Stakes
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - A rainstorm that hit in the middle of the Monday card at Lone Star Park forced the $100,000 Chamberlain Bridge Stakes to be moved from the turf to a wet main track, and My Boanerges relished the going with a three-quarter-length win over pacesetter Share the Upside. It was another half-length back in third to Texas Wedge.
The race was one of five stakes worth a cumulative $1.1 million on Lone Star Million Day. The program was the richest of the meet. Lone Star reintroduced the Million Day card for the first time since 2011.
The program started out with a fast track and firm turf, but the rains started to hit before the running of the first stakes, the $100,000 Valid Expectations, which went as the seventh race. The rain intensified, and when the horses were in the paddock for the Chamberlain Bridge, the track announced a weather delay. The turf races, which included the Ouija Board later on the card, were moved to the main track.
In the Chamberlain Bridge, My Boanerges ($11.20) tracked Share the Upside through an opening quarter in 22.25 seconds and a half-mile in 44.80, then pushed past the leader and went on to cover five furlongs on a sloppy, sealed track in 57.34 seconds.
Rodolfo Guerra was aboard My Boanerges, who was making his first wet-track start Monday. He was previously based in New Mexico for his breeder and owner, Nancy Lock.
“He didn’t even know what mud was,” winning trainer Dallas Keen said in a post-race interview broadcast at Lone Star. “He’s from south New Mexico. He’s class. He’s a neat old horse.”
My Boanerges is a son of Diabolical who is now 6 for 10.
Our Iris Rose upsets Memorial Day Sprint
Our Iris Rose became a stakes winner in the Memorial Day Sprint for fillies and mares, the first of the five stakes. She won by three-quarters of a length over 2-5 favorite Mundaye Call, who broke last of all. It was another length and a quarter back in third to Ain’t No Elmers.
Our Iris Rose ($48.40) became the latest stakes winner for her multiple stakes-winning dam, Rose’s Desert, whose top foal is Grade 3 winner Runaway Ghost.
“Everything she’s had can run,” Joe Peacock, Jr., who bred and owns Our Iris Rose, said in a winner’s circle interview at Lone Star.
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Our Iris Rose was always prominent in the six-furlong race, tracking Ain’t No Elmers through an opening quarter in 22.70 seconds. Our Iris Rose took the lead after a half-mile in 45.34 and went on to cover the distance in 1:10.27. The race was run on a sealed track rated good.
Richard Eramia was aboard for trainer Todd Fincher. Our Iris Rose is by Ghostzapper.