Great Lakes Stakes ($100.000 Purse)
WO- For Four Year Olds and Upward
One Mile and One Sixteenth on the Dirt
June 12, 2021
The Great Lakes Stakes made its first appearance on our schedule on Saturday, and its first winner will be a gelding that just a year ago was racing in both the KYD and BEL. Remson was a longshot in those races, and it was over a year since the last time he made a trip to the winner’s circle. That’s a losing streak that will now come to and end, as he earns the win for trainer John Henry. Riding this horse was S R Bahen, and congratulations to them on the win. The inaugural winning time of the race is 1:41.19. Let’s take a look!
(¼ Mile- :23.76)- Four horses break quickly out of the starting gate, but by the time we reach the first turn, that’s down to three. Never Met Me, running for Mb Stables, is a head in front of YME Stable’s Room Temperature I Q, and running in between them, it’s Take Control, from Jokerjoes. Our eventual winner, John Henry’s Remson was initially with this group from the gate, but would elect to retreat into a stalking position. After a quarter mile, he is fourth, and running between Tiz Trippi (Gdp Inc) and longshot Financial Peace (First Class Stable). It’s two more lengths to Raleigh In Doubt (Ekli Stable), and at the back, it’s all three of Nakamura Stables’ runners: Vacuum, Hollywood Eclipse, and Tango Mango.
(½ Mile- :47.26)- Now, we have just two horses at the front of the field as Room Temperature I Q and Never Met Me go back and forth for the lead while Take Control drops behind them by about a length. The gap is two and a half lengths now to those initial three stalkers, and we will still find Remson here, running between Tiz Trippi and Financial Peace. Not much is happening further back as Raleigh In Doubt is a length in front of the Nakamura trio.
(Top of Stretch, 1.8F To Go)- Completing the backstretch trip and moving around the turn, the two frontrunners are still going at it with one another. Room Temperature I Q is a half length ahead of Never Met Me. As for Remson, it was actually looking like he was in trouble as Take Control backed into him, and then when Remson wanted to move a lane over to the outside, Take Control blocked him again. Tiz Trippi and Financial Peace advanced to now be running on each of side of that one, so Remson didn’t have a clear path by any means. The others still were waiting to make a move.
Finish (1:41.19)- Remson had about three lengths to make up early in the stretch, but eventually a lane began to set up for him. He’d be able to go to the inside of Take Control now, and hold that lane all the way to the wire. Now, the question would be whether or not there was enough time. Even with a furlong to go, if you told me Remson was going to be the winner, I wouldn’t have believed you. But he would come flying through, and everyone but Room Temperature I Q was put away very easily. That pacesetter held his own much better in the stretch, but even he could not deny Remson in the end as that one finally gets another win, which is his first with John Henry. Room Temperature I Q is second in a photo. They’re a length ahead of Financial Peace and the late running Vacuum. Rounding it out, its Tiz Trippi, Raleigh In Doubt, Never Met Me, Tango Mango, Take Control, and Hollywood Eclipse.
About The Winner- Remson, trained by John Henry and ridden to victory by S R Bahen, is a four year old gelding by Zero Return, and is out of K T D. He was bred in New York as a third quarter two year old by Aer Stables, and acquired by John Henry, via Two Hearts One Love, for $100.000 in a October 2020 private sale. Congratulations to the connections! The win is his third in 15 starts, and second stake win. His career earnings are now $581.700.
Track: Fast
Time: :233 :471 1:103 1:41
$2 Mutuel Prices:
$1 Exacta: 8 – 4 Paid 70.30
$1 Trifecta: 8 – 4 – 10 Paid 1,128.80
Scratched: None
— NS
Categories: STAKES ARTICLES, Ungraded
