Printer-Friendly
Email this Story
Post a Comment (0)
Voss adds three victories, ties for national trainer title
The race is on for champion trainer, and Maryland master Tom Voss is sprinting for the finish line. Champion in 2000, '01 and '02, Voss added three to the win column at Morven to tie after the weekend with defending titlist Jack Fisher.
"It'll be a foot race," the busy trainer cracked wise, sitting on Morven Park's sunny hillside at last taking a break after Saturday's meet, ever-present cigarette dangling from the left side of his mouth. "We'll see how she goes."
Voss opened the day with a promising maiden score by, homebred Waracha (Padge Whelan up.) The son of Not for Love sold for $60,000 as a yearling at Timonium, then $75,000 as a 2-year-old in training in Florida.
Voss said wife Mimi had always liked the chestnut, and followed his lackluster career on the flat before claiming him back for $7,500 at Calder.
Voss next saddled Ken Ramsey's Slip Away to win the claimer for Xavier Aizpuru. The gray son of triple champion Skip Away "looked like a timber horse" in his front-running victory, a taciturn Voss said derisively. "A bit one-paced. Big." Voss must not have checked the clock — Slip Away's 4:11 4/5 was the fastest for the day at 2 1/4 miles.
A graded stakes winner of nearly $700,000, Trillium Stables' Dreadnaught (Whelan) won the training flat, a prep, Voss said, for the two-mile stakes at Far Hills Oct. 18.
The Voss stable produced Sunday as well: at Philadelphia Park, Blackwood Stables' Langburg (Whelan) won an $30,000 allowance hurdle.
In the featured timber race at Morven, Augustin Stables' homebred Move West assumed command at the first fence and romped to victory in the three-mile 'chase.
The 7-year-old son of Gone West won the grade I Foxbrook Supreme Novice at Far Hills in 2005 over hurdles and then missed over a year and half due to injury.
He returned in May 2007 at Winterthur, where he won his timber debut by 5 1/2 lengths. He headed straight to stakes company in his next start and finished a solid third in the Radnor Hunt Cup before going to the sidelines for the remainder of the season.
Move West was fifth in the $100,000 Virginia Gold Cup in May behind past timber champions Bubble Economy and Miles Ahead.
Xavier Aizpuru subbed for injured Jody Petty; Petty was taken away by ambulance for a check-up after parting company with Bow Strada in the second.
Results
Maiden claiming hurdle. Purse: $10,000. 2 1/4 miles. Time: 4:16. 1. Waracha, o/Mimi Voss, r/Padge Whelan; 2. New Point, o/Peggy Steinman, r/Paddy Young; 3. Sir Chip, o/Randy Rouse, r/Rod MacKenzie. 12 started.
Open claiming hurdle. Purse: $10,000. 2 1/4 miles. Time: 4:11 4/5. 1. Slip Away, o/Ken Ramsey, r/Xavier Aizpuru; 2. Humdinger, o/Kinross Farm, r/Matt McCarron; 3. Deb's Delight, o/Jonathan Sheppard, r/Danielle Hodsdon. 10 started.
Maiden hurdle. Purse: $15,000. 2 1/4 miles. Time: 4:22 3/5. 1. Class Bopper, o/Mede Cahaba, r/Richard Boucher; 2. Perfectionately, o/Cathy Malone, r/Jake Chalfin; 3. Right Hand, o/Ivy Hill Farm, r/Danielle Hodsdon. 14 started.
Training flat. 1 1/4 miles. Time: 2:14 3/5. 1. Dreadnaught, o/Trillium Stable, r/Padge Whelan; 2. Derby For Darby, o/Greg Hawkins, r/Robbie Walsh; 3. Triple Dip, o/Joseph Henderson, r/Liam McVicar.14 started.
Samuel Rogers memorial timber. Purse: $15,000. 3 1/4 miles. Time: 6:32. 1. Move West, o/Augustin Stables, r/Xavier Aizpuru; 2. Ravens Rock, o/Holbrook Hollow, r/Paddy Young; 3. Shiny Emblem, o/Arcadia, r/Willi Dowling. 7 started.
Amateur timber. Purse: $5,000. 3 miles. Time: 6:45 3/5. 1. Music To My Ears, o/r George Hundt Jr.; 2. Profowens, o/Emma Wettern, r/Lucy Horner; 3. Antonio Star, o/John Pettibone, r/Diana Gillam. 6 started.
Virginia-bred turf. Purse: $5,000. 6 1/2 furlongs. Time:1:19 4/5. 1. Highcrest, o/Wolver Hill Farm, r/Xavier Aizpuru; 2. Class Disco, o/Mede Cahaba, r/Richard Boucher; 3. General Skye, o/Kinross Farm, r/Matt McCarron. 10 started.
You must be logged in to post a comment.