Heiligbrodt Racing Stable’s Hisse proved
prophetically best by 4 3/4-lengths when winning Sunday’ $60,000 Red Camelia
Stakes on closing day of Fair Grounds 2009-2010 Thoroughbred racing season
presented by Miller Lite.
Conditioned by Eclipse Award-winning trainer Steve
Asmussen, who won his ninth local training title at Fair Grounds, Hisse was
ridden by jockey Shaun Bridgmohan, who won his first Fair Grounds riding
championship after previously winning leading jockey titles at Arlington,
Aqueduct and Churchill Downs in previous seasons.
Owners Bill and Corrine Heiligbrodt captured their
second straight leading owner title at Fair Grounds on Sunday’s last day of the
meeting.
“Hisse ran a great race on the grass today,” said
Bridgmohan. “Everything came together for me at the end of the
season. I was able to expand my business near the end of the season, but
Steve (Asmussen) has backed me all along and I really appreciate the way he has
stuck with me all along.”
Bridgemohan kept Hisse far back in the early going of
Sunday’s Red Camelia, restricted to accredited Louisiana-bred fillies and run
at about 1 1/16-miles over the Stall-Wilson turf course. The daughter of Buddha
circled foes around the second turn while moving up, surged clear a furlong out
and proved much the best.
Hisse returned mutuels of $4.20, $2.60 and $2.10,
accomplished the distance in 1:43.72 and increased her earnings to $332,071
with her fifth victory in 21 lifetime starts.
Daniel Family Farms’ Skipping
Town
rallied to be clearly second best, finishing two lengths in front of Dogwood
Knoll Farm’s Token Diva. Skipping Town paid $5.80 and $3.20, while
Token Diva returned $7.60 in the show position.
Michael Almerico II’s Royal Madame made the pace
with splits of 23.27 and 48.53 before tiring to ninth.
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