Jockey Miguel Mena guided Andrew Farm, Scanlon and O’Connor’s favored
Celadon to a neck victory
in Monday’s $53,000 allowance optional claiming feature for older
fillies and mares at about 5 1 /2-furlongs over Fair Grounds’
Stall-Wilson turf course, giving the Peruvian-born rider his
fifth win of the afternoon and leaving him four wins shy of the
1,000-career win milestone.
Mena finished third aboard
Wild Again Soul in the day’s ninth and final race, his one opportunity to tie the track record of six wins on a day, held by several riders.
Celadon, trained by
Ronny Werner, increased
her career earning to $82,636 with her third win in five lifetime
starts, toured the distance over the “good” grass in 1:05.67 and
returned mutuels of $4.60, $3.40 and $2.20.
Maggi Moss’s
Speedy Spice, unhurried
early, could not catch the winner in the late stages but gained the
place, paying $6.20 and $3.40 while finishing a half-length to the good
of Martin Cherry’s
Hello Monday, who returned $2.60 to show.
Hello Monday accomplished early fractions of 23.61 and 47.86 before weakening against the top two.