Where's Chris ($41.60) edges Book’em Danno in Nashua Stakes

Where’s Chris won a stretch battle over Book’em Danno on Sunday at Aqueduct when he captured the $150,000 Nashua by three-quarters of a length.

It was another 5 1/2 lengths back in third to Billal.

The Nashua was a one-turn-mile stakes for 2-year-olds. It shared a card with the Pumpkin Pie, won by Green Up, and the Tempted for 2-year-old fillies.

Where’s Chris ($41.60) pressed leader Book’em Danno through fractions of 23.50 seconds for the opening quarter, 47.47 for the half-mile and 1:12.02 for six furlongs. Where’s Chris engaged the leader in the stretch and the previously undefeated Book’em Danno put up a fight to the later stages, when Where’s Chris edged past and won in 1:36.75.

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Isaac Castillo was aboard Where’s Chris for trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.

“He’s a nice horse and the trainer and horse's team did a very good job with him,” Castillo told the New York Racing Association. “I knew I had a lot of horse and the horse looked like he was a good horse. I just tried to do the best for him.”

Where’s Chris came into the Nashua off a third-place finish to Book’em Danno in the $145,000 Futurity on Oct. 8 at Aqueduct. Where’s Chris is now 2 for 3 for earnings of $139,000.

Nice Guys Stables owns Where’s Chris. He is a son of Twirling Candy and the stakes-winning mare Sea Queen, who earned $474,495.

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