Blushing Meadows Goes KABOOM! in OP Hcp (GII)

RACE 1 OP

4/16/2016   Post Time 6:25PM
The OP Handicap (GII)
$750.000  4yo&Up         1  1/8m    Dirt

We may have a new star in front of us, and he pays well!!  Sent off at 35/1 odds, Deputy Dynamite stamped himself as a top handicap horse in the ’16 season, taking The OP Hcp (GII) by a length over the main strip here, stopping the timer in 1:472 for the classic mile and an eighth distance.  The lightly raced Cju also mad a name for himself with a game runner up effort.  Port On The Horizon did some of the heavy lifting and rounded out the top three.


$2 Mutuel Prices:

1 – Deputy Dynamite 75.70 28.10 28.80
3 – Cju   5.90 4.20
6 – Port On The Horizon     5.30

Track: Fast      Time: :473  1:111  1:352  1:472
$1 Exacta: 1 – 3 Paid 168.00      $1 Trifecta: 1 – 3 – 6 Paid 1,356.60
Scratched: None


Deputy Dynamite is a 4yo gelded son of Kopitar – Across The Country, by Hollywood Moon, and he was bred in California by Saratoga Stud.  Purchased prior to his racing career at the Sep 2014 Auction for $35.010, he now shows five wins from fifteen starts and earnings of $833.820, with $660.000 of that coming this season.


 

 

 

 

 



Categories: Grade II