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City Fair Earns First Stakes Win in Correction Handicap Look of the Lynx was second in the field of seven in a race for fillies and mares 3 years old and up. Another half-length behind in third was Outstanding Info. Wired to Fly finished fourth, followed by Bedside Manner and Cantkeepfromsingin. Dat You Miz Blue, the 4-5 favorite, raced wide and finished seventh, finishing ahead of only A. P. Andie. City Fair, ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan and carrying 114 pounds, was timed for the six furlongs in 1:11.59 on a fast track. The winner earned $49,665 for William Young's Overbrook Farm. City Fair returned $13, $7, and $5.90. Look of the Lynx paid $16.20 and $8.30 and Outstanding Info showed at $6.40. The winning exacta combination paid $123.The win marks the first in a stakes race for City Fair (Carson City--Encorevous, by Storm Bird), who previously finished second to Xtra Heat in the Interborough Handicap on Jan. 1 and second in the Holiday Inaugural Stakes on Dec. 1 at Turfway Park.James Jerkens-trained Dat You Miz Blue was making her 5-year-old debut in the Correction. The five-time stakes winner's most recent previous race was a runner-up finish to Raging Fever in the Garland of Roses Handicap on Dec. 8."I thought I would make the lead with her," said jockey Richard Migliore. "She didn't give me the kind of turn of foot I counted on. I knew I was in deep water before the three-eighths pole. She just wasn't taking me. If she showed the speed I thought she was going to, we wouldn't have ended up four wide." (Chart, Equibase) |
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