11/15/2020

  2  WO      Frost King Stakes

$100.000      2yo ON-bred         6 1/2f  Dirt         120lbs +penalties

Kaboom! goes the tote board.  Caleb Toothpaste, the rank outsider at 77/1, broke alertly and ran like he stole it, taking the Frost King by three-quarters of a length, getting the six and a half furlongs in 1:15.79.  Post time favorite Hint Of Sugar made a late run but he remains a maiden.  Bloodbank was another length back in third.

The small field of five loaded and and was away with Caleb Toothpaste away fast, Whatd You Say giving chase, Seattle Anakena was next, Bloodbank towards the outside and Hint Of Sugar was the early trailer.

They made the run down the backside and went past the five sixteenths pole with Caleb Toothpaste showing the way by a length and a half.  Whatd You Say on the outside of Seattle Anakena, a gap of three back to Hint Of Sugar and Bloodbank next to that one.

They made their way around the far turn and into the stretch with a bit more than a furlong to run and Caleb Toothpaste was in front by three lengths.  We had a pair of tiring horses and a pair beginning to get wound up, but this was starting to look like upset city.

Inside the final 150-yards and to the finish, Caleb Toothpaste with the lead, Hint Of Sugar trying to close a late gap but his race was over as nobody was catching the long shot and Caleb Toothpaste took the win.  Hint Of Sugar was second, a length better than Bloodbank in third.  We had a dead-heat for fourth between Seattle Anakena and Whatd You Say.

Caleb Toothpaste is a 2yo bay gelding by Winter Warrior – Hehehe Haggis, by Ginger Haggis and he was bred by his owner, Night Rider Stables, in ON.  This was his first win from two starts and he now has earnings of $60.000.

$2 Mutuel Prices:

Track: Fast            Time: :23¹  :46   1:09²  1:15³
$1 Exacta: 1 – 2 Paid 101.10       $1 Trifecta: 1 – 2 – 4 Paid 837.20
Scratched: None

Categories: STAKES ARTICLES, Ungraded