Super Chow gets back with Olver to take Toboggan

Plan C worked quite well for Super Chow in Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct.

After scratching out of an allowance at Gulfstream for a stakes at Laurel that got canceled, Super Chow wound up in New York where on Saturday he scored a front-running, 4 1/4-length victory in the Toboggan over a sealed, muddy Aqueduct surface.

Super Chow was ridden to victory by Madison Olver, an apprentice jockey who recorded her first career stakes win. It was her 50th career victory.

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“It means the world, it’s a culmination of everything I have wanted since I first started with the racehorses,” Olver told NYRA publicity.

Trainer Jorge Delgado said he put Olver on Super Chow in a stakes, despite not getting the five-pound weight allowance an apprentice gets in overnight races, because of her familiarity with the horse. Olver rode Super Chow to a pair of seconds and a third in stakes at Monmouth and Aqueduct in 2023.

“She knows the horse pretty good, that’s the reason I put her back on,” Delgado said in the Gulfstream Park paddock, from where he watched the race. “She did lose a few times with the horse but she always gave him a good ride.”

Delgado wanted Super Chow on the lead and Olver had him two lengths clear through a quarter in 23.69 seconds and a half-mile in 47.66.

Manny Wah, under Dylan Davis was on the chase, but despite Super Chow drifting out seven paths in the lane, Manny Wah was unable to catch him, settling for second, 2 3/4 lengths clear of 3-5 favorite Kinetic Sky.

Stage Left, Divine Armor, Skylander, and Murray completed the order of finish.

Super Chow, a 4-year-old gelding by Lord Nelson owned by Lea Farms, covered the seven furlongs in 1:25.10 and returned $10.20. He earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 95.

Both Olver and Delgado mentioned that Super Chow gets brave on the lead. Olver said the drifting out that Super Chow did in the stretch of the Toboggan is typical.

“That’s his thing,” she said. “He does it every race and if you let him do it, he’ll keep going fast. It’s just there’s not much you can do change the drifting.”

Delgado said Super Chow will return to Florida. He could make a start at Gulfstream, where last winter he won two sprint stakes, and will definitely return to Monmouth Park for the summer.

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