Ozone Park, N.Y. - Trainer Timothy Kreiser has started nearly 10,000 horses and registered 2,356 career victories, but he had never won a graded stakes until sending out Point Dume to upset reigning Sprint champion Book‘em Danno by a hard-fought neck in Saturday’s $300,000 Carter at Aqueduct.   Point Dume, whom Kreiser claimed for Bush Racing Stable for $40,000 last summer at Penn National, came into the Grade 2 Carter sporting a modest two-race win streak that included a 3 3/4-length victory at Laurel Park on February 14 in the seven-furlong General George.  That performance earned the 5-year-old son of Into Mischief a career-best 104 Beyer Speed Figure. Point Dume had also been entered Saturday in the $100,000 Frank Whiteley Stakes at Laurel.   With the Gulfstream Park-based Edwin Gonzalez aboard for the first time, Point Dume was allowed to set a rather leisurely 23.01-seconds opening quarter-mile split while prompted on the pace from the outset by Acoustic Ave.  Point Dume shook off his early pursuer when roused entering the stretch, edged clear through midstretch, then dug in gamely once engaged by Book’em Dano to narrowly prevail. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Book’em Danno, sent postward the 3-5 favorite making his first start since winning the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga on August 23, saved ground while kept within easy striking distance during the opening half-mile.  He was put under a hard drive by regular rider Paco Lopez midway on the turn, angled out to continue his bid into the stretch, loomed boldly after six furlongs, but was not good enough. Be You fanned widest leaving the turn and rallied from last down the center of the track to finish third, another 1 1/2 lengths behind Book ‘em Danno.  The previously undefeated Rated by Merit suffered his first loss in six starts, finishing fourth with Acoustic Ave. bringing up the rear of the five-horse field. The win was the 11th in 31 starts for Point Dume, who completed seven furlongs over a fast track in 1:22.53 and paid $16.86. “He (Point Dume) likes to fight and this might be the only time we get him(Book’em Danno), off the layoff,” Kreiser said. “But he was doing so good, we couldn’t just go for a hundred at Laurel. We felt it was time to go for a little money and see what happens.” Kreiser said he reached out to Gonzalez for the riding assignment because of their previous association many years ago at Penn National. “Me and Eddie won a lot of races at Penn National, he won hundreds of races for me,” Kreiser explained. “And he’s my kind of rider.  He likes speed, to go to the front and if they catch us, they catch us. If you got the best horse, they can’t catch you.”    Kreiser said he won’t be going back to Laurel for a hundred grander next time either, although he has nothing picked out for Point Dume’s next start. “We take it one step at a time. We hadn’t thought that far ahead. We’re not used to this type of thing,” Kreiser said. “I was so excited, I think my heart stopped for a couple of seconds coming to the wire.” Trainer Derrick Ryan took Book’em Danno’s second-place finish in stride. “The winner got a little loose on the lead. Paco said he probably should have been with him,” Ryan said. “But seven off the layoff, I was a little afraid of the distance. I would rather have six, but it will set him up for the rest of the year. We didn’t want him to run his best race the first time back. In April. We need him in November.” Ryan said he will wait for Saratoga for Book’em Danno’s next start, which would likely come on Belmont Stakes weekend in the Grade 3 True North, the first of three races he won at Saratoga during his championship campaign along with the Grade 2 Vanderbilt and Forego. “We won’t run him in all three races at Saratoga this year, probably the first and the last,” Ryan said. “That’s a tough schedule and he’s a year older now.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.