Fly to the Bank early favorite
OKLAHOMA CITY – It will be a clash of the Oklahoma Classics stakes winners when the $70,000 Silver Goblin Stakes on Friday night at Remington Park.
REMINGTON PARK HORSE RACING
OKLAHOMA CITY – It will be a clash of the Oklahoma Classics stakes winners when the $70,000 Silver Goblin Stakes on Friday night at Remington Park.
The Silver Goblin Stakes is a 6-1/2 furlongs sprint on the main track for Oklahoma-breds, 3-yearolds and older. Fly to the Bank has been made the lukewarm favorite for the race at 7-2 odds, coming off a victory in the six-furlong $114,800 Oklahoma Classics Sprint on Oct. 21. That 5-year-old gelding by Euroears (Langfuhr), out of the Kingkiowa mare Take It and Fly, will be facing another Classics winner, That’s Something, who won the $153,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup the same night. That 5-year-old gelded son of Read the Footnotes (Smoke Glacken), out of the Concern mare Cherokee Princess, will be shortening up from that win at 1-1/16th miles.
Fly to the Bank was an easy winner in the Classics Sprint at 8-1 odds, scoring by 3-3/4 lengths. Jockey Obed Sanchez had the mount for the Sprint win and was as surprised as anyone that it was so this easy on the James Helzer trainee.
“Me and (owner Juan) Carlos (Gallegos of Edmond, Okla.) have been working with this horse since the beginning of the meet,” said Sanchez. “At the end, my horse was just waiting for horses to fight.”
Sanchez is recuperating from broken ribs he incurred during a racing fall on Wednesday, Nov. 2, so leading rider at Remington, Cristian Torres, has been named to guide the favorite. Fly to the Bank was bred by his trainer, Helzer.
That’s Something’s trainer Lynn Chleborad draped herself in the flowered blanket of the Oklahoma Classics Cup and yelled out her signature happy shout, “YIP! YIP!” as she celebrated her winner. She also triumphed as the owner and breeder as That’s Something took his third race in a row on the dirt to capture the Cup and has been made the 4-1 second favorite for the Silver Goblin Stakes.
That’s Something provided Chleborad with her first win in the main event of the Classics. She set another record that night, getting her second win 23 years after getting her first with Imaginary Friend in 1999.
Jockey Luis Quinonez had the winning Cup mount and got a little surprise from That’s Something on Classics night.
“I didn’t know he was going to go to the lead and I said to him, ‘OK, if that’s where you want to be,’ “ said Quinonez. “When I looked at the others turning for home, I said, ‘You’re in trouble because I have a lot more horse (laughs).’ Lynn told me he was ready and she was right.”
And now the Classics winners clash, but apparently won’t dominate the toteboard in the Silver Goblin. Several others were given a puncher’s chance at knocking them both out.
Here’s the rest of the field of the Silver Goblin with post positions, horse, odds, jockey and trainer: Salt Creek Kid, 10-1, Weston Hamilton, Sue Hunt Dicey, 20-1, Jose Alvarez, Patrick Swan Hunter Quick, 20-1, Inirio Maicol, Steve Williams Rosie’s Outlaw, 8-1, Stewart Elliott, Karl Broberg That’s Something, 4-1, Luis Quinonez, Lynn Chleborad Cowboy Mischief, 151, Richard Eramia, Kenny Nolen Mesa Moon, 10-1, David Cabrera, Scott Young Euromantic, 6-1, Alfredo Triana, Jr., Victor Hanson Tommyhawk, 8-1, Floyd Wethey, Jr., Randy Swango Grand Royale, 20-1, Leandro Goncalves, Steve Williams Fly to the Bank, 7-2, Cristian Torres, James Helzer Rowdy Rascal, 15-1, Freddy Manrrique, Boyd “Jobe” Caster Live racing at Remington Park continues Friday, Nov. 11 with the first race at 7:07 pm-Central.
