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$1.2 Million OBS Calder Sale-Topper Debuts Thursday
Date Posted: 5/15/2003 9:16:12 AM
Last Updated: 5/15/2003 2:12:00 PM
Chapel Royal, a son of Montbrook who topped the OBSC Calder select sale of 2-year-olds in February with a final bid of $1.2 million, will make his career debut in the second race at Belmont Park Thursday.Chapel Royal will face eight rivals in the five-furlong contest, which is scheduled to go off at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. He is trained by Todd Pletcher and will be racing for owners Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith. Chapel Royal's $1.2 million pricetag set a new record for the OBS Calder sale.Bred in Florida by Michael O'Farrell's Ocala Stud, the nearly jet-black colt is the second foal of racing age out of the Cutlass mare Cut Class Leanne.
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