Clicquot slurps on Cotillion Win * The Racing Biz

The Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes on Parx Racing on Saturday produced a breakthrough at a top level victory for Clicquot, which reduced leader dry powder to secure her second graded stakes Win of the year.

The victory improved the record of the daughter of Quality Road to four victories of five starts and pushed her career -bankroll to $ 840.153. The victory over three degrees 1 winners stamps her as a player in the Merrievefeulen.

The Cotillion was one of the two degrees 1 races on the Parx card and joined the Pennsylvania Derby when the track in Philadelphia organized its largest day of the year.

Trusted by Irad Ortiz Jr., Clicquot was not rushed early and established Midpack behind a pace of La Cara, which was pressed hard by dry powder through fractures of 23.73 and 47.38. While the leaders had to be around the far turn, Clicquot moved between rivals, shifted to a clear running and addicted in a long -term stretch duel with dry powder, which had taken the order at the top of the lane. The pair fought against the head, but Clicquot turned out to be the best in the final yards and aimed to score with a neck in 1: 42.85 for 1 1/16 miles on a fast job.

Dry powder kept second, while local hopeful Ourdaydreaming girl, trained in Parx by Lou Linder, leaves at the far be accused of securing the third, only one cup further back, at odds of 42-1.

Clicquot paid $ 12.60 to win. The exact returned $ 86.20 for a bet of two dollars, while the Trifecta paid $ 168.55 for 50 cents.

The outcome can mark a change in the guard in the 3-year-old Merrieveeulen Division. The three degree 1 winners in the field, Scottish Lassie, La Cara and Good Cheer, could not do better than fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.

Clicquot races in the colors of X-Men Racing IV, Madaket Stables and SF Racing, is trained by Brendan Walsh and was bred in Kentucky by Don Alberto Corporation. She has now added the Cotillion to her earlier triumph in class 3 Indiana Oaks, and with her record of 4-out-5 she appears as an important player in the division when the autumn championships are approaching races.