Chamberlain Bridge all set to go with 8 other sprinters in the Bonapaw Stakes
Carl R. Moore owned 7-year-old gelding, Chamberlain Bridge, will make his first start since finishing 8th in the Grade 2 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, a race which he won in 2010. W. Bret Calhoun trained gelding is pointed toward the $75,000 Bonapaw
Stakes.
The Bonapaw Stakes in one of three stakes race heading up this weekend at Fair Grounds race course on the Santa Super Sunday. It will be run over a distance of five and a half furlongs on 17 December, 2011, over at Fair Grounds race track’s turf surface.
The race has reeled in 9, three-year-olds and above and it has certainly attracted Chamberlain Bridge, it and it is just not the pure, with $75,000 worth of purse money the race has turned out to be very good.
There are a lot of good horses, but Chamberlain Bridge according to his trainer is coming out good as well and he certainly has the ability to give 8 other sprinters a hard time on the grass surface.
“He just hasn’t had much luck in his last couple of races,” Calhoun said. “In that last start (Nov. 24 at Churchill Downs where he finished fourth in $100,000 optional claiming company) he lost all chance at the start. The ground was so soft he almost went
down coming out of the gate. And in his start before that (eighth in the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint Nov. 5), he had to come out of the #14 hole, and I don’t think that helped him at all.
“On Saturday (breaking from the outside in the #9 post), I think he’ll be exactly where he wants to be,” Calhoun concluded, “and I expect him to give a real good effort once again.”
The Kentucky bred son of War Chant, out of mare She’s Got Class by Trempolino, Chamberlain Bridge out of five starts this season, managed to kick start his 2011 campaign with a win in the Rail Splitter Stakes run on turf at Sam Houston race course.
He downed Goldzar in second and Future Covenant in third as the winner covered the 5 furlong distance in 56.63 seconds.
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