Monday, July 28, 2008 10:20 PM CDT
Colt 'with an attitude' recovers for win
BY BRIAN NIELSEN, Sports Editor
bnielsen@jg-tc.com
CHARLESTON -- Leading most of the way, Freddie Patton Jr.’s talented but sometimes irritable colt seemingly had ruined things, breaking stride at the final turn.
“I was mad,” Patton said. “To have that happen that late, especially for no reason.”
The harness horse driver was not the only one who took exception when Ma Piper passed his Quick Thought on the break.
“He actually can’t stand horses around him, especially in front of him,” Patton said. “He has an attitude.”
So once Patton got Quick Thought back on stride, the 2-year-old gelding did the rest with enough track left to win a photo finish in the second division of the $2,359 Illini 2-year-old Colt Pace at the Coles County Fair harness horse racing.
The first of five days of races at the fair also included a track record for 2-year-old pacing colts as Matt Cox drove Shortstacked of the Ervin Miller stables in Springfield to a mile of 1:58 2/5 to break the mark of 1:59 set by Froggy Turner with Tom Simmons driving last year.
Quick Thought had become a season leader for Illinois county fair tracks with a 1:59 1/5 winning time.
The fast finish came after a slow start to the track. The pre-race parade and announcements began with Quick Thought still not present.
“I was talking and Tom Simmons noticed he didn’t have a tongue tie,” Patton said. “I was just running my mouth with the guys. You have to have a little fun doing this.”
Patton’s fun has included six wins in seven starts this year with Quick Thought, owned by Willie Scott of Raymond Miss.
Patton trains the colt who might need some time off.
“He’s a little sore,” Patton said. “I’m going to have to have the vet look at him.”
Patton also won the day’s first race with Pargenta, who has a couple of Illinois owners and took the first division of the Illini 2-year-old filly pace in 2:00.
Both of Patton’s Monday winners are to race again Wednesday in the Illinois Stallion Stakes scheduled for a 5:30 p.m. start.
Post times for the other days are 12:30 p.m., including today’s five-race card that includes the track’s all-age record holder Armbro Barnes.
Monday’s fastest mile came on the last of eight races when Darla Martin drove Hopintosh, owned by Samuel and Shirley Glossup of Ardmore, Tenn., won the second division of the open pace for fillies and mares in 1:58 after a one-minute first half-mile.
Martin made it two straight women drivers after Cassidy Melloy drove Electric Highlight to a 2:05 1/5 win in the first division of the open pace for fillies and mares, making it four wins in the last seven starts for the Albion horse.
That was not the slowest winning time of the day as Michael Whitaker drove Windridge Dancer to a 2:09 3/5 race in which each of the four entries had a break sometime during the race including LW Jaynie Flyer, who had the lead until breaking stride in the back stretch.
Contact Brian Nielsen at bnielsen@jg-tc.com or 238-6856.
MONDAY’S RESULTS
ILLINI 2-YEAR-OLD FILLY PACE
First division
Time – 2:00
1. Pargenta (owner-Ronald Phillips, Petersburg, and John Carver, Rapids City; trainer/driver-Freddie Patton Jr.); 2. Big Dollar (o/t-Johnny Rice, Starkville, Miss.; d-Terry Skinner); 3. Fox Valley Patina (o-Denton Ray Hanna, Altamont; Bryce Gieler, Kinmund; Jim Edgar, Seymour; t-Ray Hanna; d-Michael Cox); 3. Walkinthemoonlite (o-Jessie Turnipseed, Starkville, Miss.; t/d-Chad Bell); 5. Mountain Big Girl (o/t/d-Jerry Mims, Vardaman, Miss.); 6. Mighty Faith (o/t-Albert Clemons, Prenston, Miss.; d-Kakendrick Goss) Second division Time 2:01 4/5 1. Shilo Sundance (o-Wilson Racing Stable Inc., Marshall, and Ann Calvert, Marshall; t-Timothy Wilson Jr.; d-Michael Johnson); 2. Foolish Hope (o-Hugh Lake Lacey, Joplin, Mo.; t-Ray Hanna; d-Michael Cox); 3. Ogs Si Bon (o-Donna Carroll, Benton, Ky; t-Curtis Rice; d-Freddie Patton Jr.; 4. Mighty Babe (o-Meltaurus Williams, Clinton, Miss.; t-Marcus Turner; d-Freddie Patton Jr.); 5. Tessie L (o-Bryan Brown, Bolton, Miss; Paul Cavatt, Clinton, Miss.; t-Freddie Patton Jr.; d-Paul Cavett) ILLINI 2-YEAR-OLD COLT PACE First division Time 2:01 4/5 1. Fox Valley Lee (o-Denton Ray Hanna, Altamont, and Richard Courson, Saint Peter; t-Ray Hanna; d-Mike Cox); 2. Fox Valley Mavro (o-Ronald Lott, Athens; t/d-Graham Ross Jr.); 3. New Golden Voice (o-Tommie Paster, Starkville, Miss.; t/d-Chad Bell); 4. Just Us (Helen McMahon, American Falls, Idaho; t/d-Alan Finn); 5. Tea Cake Plate (o-Glria Gillis, Mansfield, La.; t/d-Michael Whitaker) Second division Time 1:59 1/5 1. Quick Thought (o-Willie Scott, Raymond, Miss.; t/d-Freddie Patton Jr.); 2. Ma Piper (o-C. Mileary, Ypsilanti, Mich., O.J. Miller, Humboldt, and Drew Miller, Sherman; t/d-Erv Miller); 3. Kappy Krunch (o-Michael Tague, Champaign; t/d-Tom Simmons); 4. Apachie Hotstuff (o-Carter Wilson and Michael Johnson, Martinsville; t/d-Michael Johnson); 5. Classy Cam (o-Orville Rursch, Taylor Ridge; t/d-Michael Whitaker) TOPLINE 2-YEAR-OLD TROT Time – 2:09 3/5 1.Wyndridge Dancer (o-Glria Gillis, Mansfield, La.; t/d-Michael Whitaker); 2. LW Jayne Flyer (o-Cassidy Dawn Melloy,Albion; t-Pat Melloy Jr.; d-Cassidy Melloy); 3. Fox Valley Scorch (o/t-David Lowe, Martinsville; d-Curtis Bradford); 4. MJ’s Double Crunch (o-Mark Anderson, Newton; t-Harold Gene Finn; d-Craig Banks) TOPLINE 2-YEAR-OLD PACE Time – 1:58 2/5 1. Shortstacked (o-Ervin Miller Stables, Inc., O.J. Miller, Humboldt, and N.J. Herschberger, Tuscola; t-Ervin Miller; d-Matt Cox); 2. Salvations Dream (o-Larry and Barbara Mulvey, Newton; t/d-Jared Finn); 3. Quaker Ridge (o/t/d-Ervin Miller, Springfield); 4.. Zone Player (o-Benita Simmons and Heidi Miller, Springfield; t/d-Tom Simmons); 5. V-Anna’s Terri (o-Glria Gillis, Mansfield, La.; t/d-Michael Whitaker); scratch-Guan Yin (o-Ervin Miller Stables, Springfield, and Orner Miller, Humboldt) OPEN PACE FILLIES AND MARES First division Time – 2:05 1/5 1. Electric Highlight (o/t-Patrick Melloy jr.; d-Cassidy Melloy); 2. Miss Fortune (o/t-Hugh Kirk, Lovington; d-Mitch Finn); 3. Doubletime Isabel (lessee/t-Michael Gee, Charleston; d-Mitch Finn); 4. Final Wife (o-Darry, Gene and Dakota Birch, Willow Hill; t/d-Darry Birch); scratch-Ms Dock Johnson II (o-Dock Johnson, Clinton, Miss.) Second division
Time: 1:58
1. Misty Rio (o-Shirley and Samuel Glossup, Ardmore, Tenn., t-Samuel glossup; d-Darla Martin); 2. Fox Valley Odessa (o-Brian and Jerry Freese, Sullivan; t/d-Brian Freese); 3. Hopintosh (l/t/d-Samuel Greer, Jackson, Tenn.); 4. Beachy’s Destiny (o-Mitch Finn, Charleston, Marha Miller, Crestood, and Shirley D. Finn, Terre Haute; t/d-Mitch Finn); 5. Cullinseed (o-Donal Bryant, Carmi; t-Toni Bell; d-Larry Binkley)
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