Headless Horseman Racing’s Karmageddon spurned a challenge
by the favorite entering the stretch and drew off at will to a four and a
half-length victory in the $82,000 allowance feature at Monmouth Park
on Friday.
The winner, trained by Doug Nunn and ridden by Chuck C. Lopez, raced the six
furlongs over a fast main track in 1:10 1/5, paid $7, $3.80 and $3 across the
board, and topped a $24 exacta as the second choice in a field of 10 New
Jersey-bred fillies and mares.
Pascal’s Paradox, the 7-5 choice who challenged Karmageddon on the turn only to
be turned back, held second by three lengths over Lil Kiara, and paid $2.80 and
$2.60. Lil Kiara returned $4.40 to show.
This was the third career victory in five starts for Karmageddon, a 3-year-old
daughter of Wildcat Heir * Kismet, by Kissin Kris, who won the New Jersey
Juvenile Stakes at the Meadowlands last year. Chuck Lopez was aboard for that
score, and has ridden the filly in all her three career wins.