2011 Washington Park Hcp (G3)

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Date/Track:
9/3/2011, Arlington Park
Post Time:
4:37 PM CT
Distance:
1 3/16 m (Synthetic)
Age/Sex:
3+ M
Time:
1:51.60

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Making one full trip around the Arlington Park oval this Saturday are the entrants of the 79th Washington Park Handicap. Workin for Hops and General Quarters are two of the bigger names entering the event which has been dominated by Mike Stidham’s Gran Estreno each of the last two years. Hopefully o...Read More
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  • tonykelso · I would consider General Quarters bouncing back his allowance dirt race at CD was very good. The Firecracker is a tough race, I don't think the distance of one mile against top horses really fit him.. Demand value. · 270 days ago ·
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  • RobertPotter · If Working For Hops reproduces his Hanshin performance,he most likely wins. If not, the steadily improving Illinois bred-Color Me Blue- can win this running of the Washington Park Hcp. · 270 days ago ·
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Two years ago, trainer Ron Herrell brought his horse Hoosier Kingdom – who he co-owns along with partners Dr. Keith Wexler and Brian Reed – to Arlington for the Grade I Secretariat Stakes.  The Indiana-bred made the pace, still had the lead at the quarter pole but then quickly dropped out of co...Read More
A troika of accomplished stakes winners – Thomas McCarthy’s General Quarters, Estrorace LLC’s Workin for Hops and Lothenbach Stables’ Mister Marti Gras – share top starting impost of 119 pounds for Saturday’s Washington Park Handicap.  The Grade III race carries a $100,000 purse and will be run...Read More
Joseph Engelhart and Magdalena Racing’s Dark Cove is a bay, but because he has never run at Arlington Park, the 4-year-old son of Medaglia d’Oro might be overlooked in Saturday’s Grade III Washington Park Handicap at Chicago’s northwest suburban oval.  Nevertheless, such a handicapping stance c...Read More
Tom McCarthy’s General Quarters, who won Keeneland’s Grade I Blue Grass Stakes over the Lexington Polytrack in 2009 and Churchill’s Grade I Woodford Reserve Turf over the Louisville lawn last year, will return to Polytrack for the first time since his Blue Grass victory for Arlington’s Grade III Was...Read More
Estrorace’s Workin for Hops, hero of the Grade III Hanshin Cup over Arlington’s Polytrack three months ago, is scheduled for a return outing over that local surface Sept. 3 for the Grade III Washington Park Handicap and will get a five-eighths tune-up Saturday morning in advance of that engagement. ...Read More
Lothenbach Stables’ Mister Marti Gras, who finished third in Keeneland’s Grade III Ben Ali Handicap in his lone career start on Polytrack, is slated to try that surface a second time in Arlington’s upcoming Grade III Washington Park Handicap on Sept. 3 of Labor Day weekend.   With that goal in ...Read More

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