Winless Brother Francis expected to run in the CashCall Futurity and open his winning account in the richest race for 2-year-olds
The 2-year-old Norman Cheng owned and James M. Cassidy trained colt, Brother Francis might be supplemented to take another shot at the Bob Baffert trained 2-year-old, So Brilliant, in the Grade 1, $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park on 17 December,
2011, at about 1 1/16 miles on poly track.
The Kentucky bred son of Lion Heart, out of mare Viapervita by Spectrum, Brother Francis hasn’t had the cutting edge ability to go all the way and win his first race in his 2 race old career.
The colt tried his luck in his debut race at Santa Anita Park’s dirt course on 5 November, 2011, at about five and a half furlongs, but couldn’t salvage much out of it as he finished second to Hodge in the maiden special weight race.
Hodge topped the five and a half furlong distance in 1 minute and 3.36 seconds, while Bling Cha Bling finished third behind Brother Francis.
Though it was a maiden race, Brother Francis was tested in the Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue over the Hollywood Park’s synthetic surface at about seven furlongs on 24 November, 2011.
In the field of seven, Brother Francis under jockey V Espinoza left behind the likes of Empire Way and his maiden special weight tormentor, Hodge, to draw even with So Brilliant, but at the crucial point Brother Francis ran out of ground to finish second
behind him.
So Brilliant covered the seven furlong distance in 1 minute and 22.96 second on the poly track while Hodge finished third.
Winless in his two starts, Brother Francis’s connections, Cassidy and Norman Cheng are still undecided whether they will supplement Brother Francis at a cost of $30,000 or not for the CashCall Futurity.
J. Paul Reddam owned Handsome Mike is expected to run in the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity on the back of a second place finish in the Grade 3 Generous Stakes to winner Stoney Fleece, who covered the 1 mile distance on turf in 1 minute and 34.77 seconds.
The 1 mile event was held at Hollywood Park on 27 November, 2011, as Handsome Mike currently stand with the stats of a single win out of 2 starts thus far.
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