With a number of runners not having Stakes experience Holden The Young could take The CC Express as he finished third beaten by three quarters of a length in The MD Sprint Handicap – Grade III over today’s distance in a good time with his main rivals looking to be Northern Dancer and Badgerland.
| CC Express |
| RACE DATE | TIME | DEADLINE | TRACK | RACE ## | DISTANCE | SURFACE | RACE TYPE |
| 12/5/2015 | 15:35 | 12/3/2015 3:00 | GP | Race #8 | 6f | Dirt | Stake |
| Purse $110.000 For Three Year Olds And Upward. Additional Requirements: Have started for a claiming price of $7.500 or less since 1/1/2014. |
Holden The Young
Night Rider Stables
Won four from fifteen one being The WV Dash for Cash Breeders Classic in October 14 and since won two allowances and finished second in this race last year and third in The MD Sprint Handicap – Grade III he last finished third in an allowance at TUP beaten by a nose.
Northern Dancer
Mojica Racing
Won six from twenty six but has been sold five times claimed by his present owner for $5.000 after winning at LRL and since then ran ten times winning twice both allowances one being his last race at FL by a length.
Magnifico
Night Rider Stables
Won four from twenty eight bought by his previous owner for 2.010 from the auction winning two claimers from five races then claimed by his present owner for $6.250 after finishing third in a claimer at GG and since ran four times finishing eight in The Fool Handicap – Grade III, a fifth and two seconds all in allowance beaten by a neck in his last race.
Pure Speed
Hambletonian Stable
Won fourteen from forty four starts and as yet never ran in Stakes Company, he was claimed by his present owner for $10.000 after finishing second in a claimer at ELP and since then won five from nineteen all in claimers or allowances but he is on a roll winning his last three, two cheap claimers and an allowance at RP.
Badgerland
S Dot Farm
Won two from six but has been sold three times in his short career being claimed by his present owner for $12.500 after finishing fourth in a claimer at GG and since then he has been gelded and ran twice finishing fourth in a claimer at SAR and won his last claimer at BEL by a length.
Bronze Emmy
Hambletonian Stable
Won sixteen from forty four starts he was bought by his present owner from the auction for 85.000 after he had won The WV OJ Breeders Classic and The A Huevo Stakes and since then won four from fifteen all allowances his last race he finished fourth of five in an allowance at CT beaten by three lengths.
Union Jake
Cps Stables
Won seven from eighteen starts he was claimed by his present owner for $5.000 after winning a claimer at the free track PEN and since then ran six times winning four, three claimers and an allowance.
Dogs Grey Warrior
Bigking
Won nine from thirty three starts he was claimed by his present owner for $7.500 after finishing second in a claimer at LAD and since ran three times winning his last two both claimers at FE and CRC.
Good luck to all.
The Englishman.
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