Illinois’ top two-year-old trotters will be in search of their biggest payday of the 2010 Illinois-Conceived and Foaled Stakes season on Wednesday night at Balmoral Park, as the $110,000 Lady Lincoln Land and the $107,000 Lincoln Land Stakes will share top billing
on the 11-race program.
The 'girls' will get things started, as a full field of 10 diagonally-gaited fillies will head to the post for in the Lady Lincoln Land Stakes. This test has been carded as Race 5.
Despite having drawn the dreaded 10-hole, La Bella Vita Stables, Robert Taylor and Kevin Dixon’s My Miss Caroline will look to continue her dominance in this division. She has been assessed as the 9-5 morning line favourite.
The long-striding daughter of Psychic Spirit cruised to an easy four and a half-length victory in her elimination last week, as she rolled under the finish wire in an effortless 2:00.1 with a sharp :28.1 final quarter for Hall of Famer Dave Magee. That victory was the eighth in nine career starts for the Robert Taylor trainee, whose only loss came in a third-place finish while facing Open company in the American National Stakes at Balmoral two weeks ago.
Rounding out the field for the Lady Lincoln Land from the inside out will be The Speed Of White, My Funky Farkle, Make It Rain, Search For Reality, Maple Grove Emily, Fox Valley Helena, Fox Valley Ruffian, My Game and Ts Rank N File.
Trainer Pam Coleman’s Powerful Charger has won six of nine career starts and has been on the board in all nine starts. He has been deemed the 3-1 morning line favourite from his inside starting spot. The Lincoln Land Stakes which will go as race eight.
The brown gelding received a bye into the final of The Lincoln Land on a money-earned basis, but his connections chose to keep him sharp with a nice come-from-behind win in 1:59.2 in a qualifying effort last Wednesday morning.
The winner of this year’s $48,000 Plesac Stakes, $35,000 State Fair Stakes and $17,500 Darn Safe Stakes is owned by Jerry Graham, Pam Coleman and the Mystical Marker Farms. He has taken a mark of 1:55.4 over Springfield.
Anthony Skywalker, Powerful JD, GJ Photo Victory, Fox Valley Arrow, Powerful Position, Detailer, Itz Alive, Matter Of Guilt and Hammer Head will complete the field.
(Balmoral)