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Mountainside Race Park
Suburban H (I) 3/u 1-1/4m $500,000

Saturday, June 5^th, 2003 – Steward:  Beth Gustas

Track:  Fast  (Weather – warm & sunny)

 

Entrants:  Karen Coursen (kco), Norma DeLany (nde), Staci Harbold (sha), Kristine Jensen (kje), Michael Slezak (msl)

 

All carry 126lbs.

Purse distribution: Winner $300,000 2^nd $115,000 3^rd $50,000 4^th $25,000 5^th $10,000

 

Last Start	Status	(PP)	Finish	A/S	Margin	Jockey
14June03 SD GII1	GISW	5	1. Sin (sha)	4C	by 3/4L	Weaver, D.
10June03 Asp GI3	GCH	3	2. Blue Morpho (msl)	4G	by 1/2L	Bridgmohan, S.
18May03 Rbw GI1	G1SW	4	3. Somebody Else (kje) @	6H	by hd	Mingie, N.
14June03 GO S3	SW	2	4. Smooth Away (nde)	4C	by nk	McKenzie, R.
07June03 Sbd GI3	G1SW	1	5. Tartan Sizzle (kco)	4C	--	Lavatello, M.

@ favorite

 

Winner: SIN, 1999 dark bay/brown colt by Pulpit x Easy Lover, Easy Goer

Owner/Trainer: Staci Harbold  Bred by Country Road Farm (PA)

 

SIN broke well to settle just off the pace, moved up to press BM in backstretch and charged home to surge past him at the wire.  BLUE MORPHO broke quickly to set a fast pace and led the pack nearly wire to wire, surprised by Sin in deep stretch.  Favorite SOMEBODY ELSE stalked the pace and was moving up in stretch but too late to matter.  SMOOTH AWAY went out fast to gamely press BM, tired.  TARTAN SIZZLE had trouble at the break, tried hard to recover but not enough time to make up gap.

 

Steward’s notes:  Today’s Suburban Handicap sported a small but talented field, any of which had a strong chance to win.  Stacy Harbold’s Sin proved himself the best today with a near-perfect performance.  Pace-setting Blue Morpho almost pulled off a wire to wire win and helped to stage an exciting stretch battle.  Somebody Else ran a solid race but lacked his typical strong late driving effort.  Smooth Away gave a game performance against a tough field in his graded stakes debut today.  Bad luck plagued the stunning Tartan Sizzle today – no doubt he’ll come back strong another day!  Thanks to everyone who gave me the opportunity to host their fabulous horses!