The money's already spent, committed mostly to stakes payments, but Quebec horseman Robert Charron is still reveling in Saturday's victory by three-year-old Mcaracas in the $80,000 final of the Diplomat Pacing Series at Woodbine Racetrack
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It's been a while since any horse he owned captured a purse that size. Nine years, in fact. The last one was Life Sizzles, who made $42,250 finishing fourth to Ring Of Life in the final of the Confederation Cup in 2001 after winning a $40,000 elimination over the same horse earlier that afternoon.
Charron, who co-owns Mcaracas with Gilles Parent, picked up the son of McArdle for $19,000 at the Harrisburg yearling sale. With the horse now entrusted to trainer Benoit Baillargeon, they've collected $109,000 to date.
"Price doesn't make the horse," said Charron, "McArdle is not a bad sire, and the dam (Smooth Latin N) had produced before. I think the fact he went very late in the sale probably made him cheaper."
He's had calls about Mcaracas but "I'm not in a hurry (to sell)."
The horse's next scheduled start is in the $38,345 second division of the Bud Light Stakes Friday at Flamboro Downs, where he's the 5-2 morning-line favourite from Post 2 in Race 4.
"Then he'll get three weeks off" before gearing up again for the Burlington Stakes in June, Charron said.
To view Friday's entries at Flamboro Downs, which includes the three divisions of the Bud Light Stakes, click here.
(A Trot Insider exclusive by Paul Delean)