ELLIS HAS MILADY OPTIONS.Byline: Brad Nelson Brad Nelson (born December 23, 1982 in Algona, Iowa), is a minor league baseball player in the Milwaukee Brewers organization. He has played first base and outfield. He was acquired by the Brewers in the fourth round of the 2001 amateur draft. Daily News Staff Writer If he wishes to use it, trainer Ron Ellis Ronald John Edward Ellis (born January 8, 1945 in Lindsay, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs. has a powerful one-two punch one-two punch n. 1. A combination of two blows delivered in rapid succession in boxing, especially a left lead followed by a right cross. 2. Informal An especially forceful or effective combination or sequence of two things. in today's $200,000 Milady Breeders' Cup Handicap The Milady Breeders' Cup Handicap is a race for thoroughbred race horses run at Hollywood Park Racetrack each year. The Grade II race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt and offers a purse of $175,000. at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
Ellis has entered both Twice the Vice and Exotic Wood in the Milady but is considering scratching Twice the Vice and letting Exotic Wood go it alone in the 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares 3 years old and up. That would leave Twice the Vice free to face Jewel Princess in the $250,000 Hempstead Handicap on June 28 at Belmont Park. Exotic Wood has won eight of her 10 career starts and has looked good in recent workouts. In her last race, however, she returned from a 10-month layoff to finish last in the May 26 Soviet Problem Handicap at Golden Gate. Twice the Vice, the defending Milady champion who has won 11 of 20 starts with earnings of more than $1.1 million, came off a similar layoff to win the Hawthorne Handicap at Hollywood Park on May 25. Both Exotic Wood and Twice the Vice are owned by Pam and Martin Wygod. ``Twice the Vice is a proven commodity,'' Ellis said. ``Exotic Wood hasn't proven she can compete time in and time out with the big competition yet.'' A Lukas split: D. Wayne Lukas-trained K.O. Punch ran off to a 12-length victory Saturday in the $65,000-added Haggin Stakes for 2-year-olds at Hollywood Park. In giving jockey Chris McCarron his second win of the day, K.O. Punch ran the 5-1/2 furlongs in 1:03 4/5 as the 1-2 favorite. Aly Cat, a 40-1 shot, was second and Jonathan's Oak third. K.O. Punch has won his only two career starts by a total of 21 lengths. At Belmont Park, Ajina, ridden by Mike Smith, swept past Lukas' odds-on favorite Sharp Cat in the stretch for a 1-1/4-length win in the $200,000 Mother Goose Stakes The Mother Goose Stakes is an American thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies held at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Raced on dirt, the Grade I race is the first leg of the Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing and currently offers a purse of $250,000. for 3-year-old fillies. Sharp Cat, ridden by Gary Stevens, built an early 2-1/2-length lead in the 1-1/8-mile race but was stalked all the way by Ajina, an 18-1 shot owned by Allen Paulson. Tomisue's Delight, ridden by Pat Day, finished third. Notes: Belmont Stakes winner Touch Gold received a new patch on his injured left forefront Saturday morning before jogging at Hollywood Park. ``Everything looks real good,'' said trainer David Hofmans, who hasn't made a decision on the horse's next start. It could be in the Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park on July 13, or possibly against Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Silver Charm in the Aug. 3 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park (N.J.) . . . Bayakoa, two-time Breeders' Cup Distaff The Breeders' Cup Distaff is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, 3 years old and up. It is held annually at a different racetrack in the United States or Canada as part of the Breeders' Cup. It is sponsored by the airline Emirates. champion, died last week of foaling foaling parturition in the mare. foaling induction bringing on the birth of the foal, usually via the injection of oxytocin. complications at age 13 in Lexington, Ky. She won the Milady in 1989 and 1990. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion