Super Charlie puts unbeaten record on line in Skunktail Stakes

OMAHA, Neb. – Super Charlie tries to remain unbeaten as 3-year-old Nebraska-breds take center stage with a pair of stakes races on Saturday’s five-race card at Horsemen’s Park.

Super Charlie headlines the $30,000-added Skunktail Stakes at six furlongs for statebred colts and geldings, while the fillies get their stakes chance in the $30,000 Fantango Lady at the same distance.

Super Charlie has done just enough to win in his first two career starts for trainer Jim Cranwell. He made his career debut March 22 at Fonner Park, where he ran greenly but still rallied for a 2 1/2-length win. He followed up April 12 in the Fonner Park Special, where he contested the lead throughout and earned a half-length win over So Contagious, whom he will meet again Saturday. Ken Shino will be in from Prairie Meadows to ride.

So Contagious is part of a coupled entry for trainer David Anderson, who also sends out Dee’s Luck under his ownership. Anderson will send out a third starter in Diamonds Finest, a half-brother to 14-time stakes winner Diamond Joe, for the partnership of Joseph Koziol and Lawrence Feldhacker.

The Fantango Lady offers a puzzler, with just five fillies entered from what was a very small foal crop in 2011. Red Hot N Wild pulled a mild upset when winning the fillies’ division of the Fonner Special in April, when she re-rallied past 1-2 favorite Princept to win by 2 1/2 lengths.

The pair went the final quarter-mile of that race in very slow time, which might open the door for first-time starter Ubetcha Ima Bumper to prove herself for trainer Brian Roberts. Ubetcha Ima Bumper posted a trio of workouts spaced a week apart in April, recording bullet moves twice. Although unproven, she might be the one to beat with Mike Ziegler aboard.