Steve Margolis wins with Cigar Street and Miz Ida at Fair Grounds
Trainer Steve Margolis has been awfully quiet since the start of the new campaign, with 2 months gone, the trainer refrained from sending his runner’s out in the open for the racing world to see what Margolis has in store for the new campaign.
The trainer finally broke his silence at Fair Grounds where he went on to win three races in four days, where he flashed his sophomore runner’s, who weren’t any counting before their respective 2012 debuts.
Bertram, Elaine and Richard Klein owned and bred 3-year-old filly, Miz Ida missed her maiden special weight race, her debut race back in 2011, when she finished 4th to winner Razzleberry at Ellis Park on 28 August, 2011, going over a distance
of five and a half furlongs on turf.
The Kentucky bred daughter of Proud Citizen, out of mare May Gator by Green Alligator, Miz Ida was then introduced to allowance/claimers company, and massively stretched out in distance to 1 1/16 miles with a switch in surface from turf to dirt.
The changes didn’t go well with the filly, as she finished an unimpressive sixth over the difficult Churchill Downs’ dirt course to winner, Dream Pegasus on 27 November, 2011.
Ever since she got handed over to jockey Shaun Bridgmohan, the filly has shown exceptional talent, and in the process she found her favourite surface over at Fair Grounds Race Course.
Called back on turf and cut back in distance to 1 mile, Miz Ida capped off her juvenile season with a win in an allowance/optional claimer on 21 December, 2011, defeating Cloud Scapes and Firehouse Red, and she started the new season with a bang as well,
going at seven and a half furlongs, the filly won her first race of the new season in the Allen LaCombe Memorial Handicap on 10 March, also at Fair Grounds.
Though despite winning her seasonal debut, Steven Margolis’ new 3-year-old colt, Cigar Street is attracting all attention after his massive 13 ¾ length victory in his maiden race at Fair Grounds, with the Beyer Speed Figure of 99, the Street Sense colt won
his maiden at about 1 1/16 miles in second asking, with the winning time of 1 minute and 43.75 seconds.
Cigar Street has come out of the race fine according to his trainer, and he will be going for bigger races after a convincing win.
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