Catlaunch Horse Racing 2010‘s Big Winner

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Does anyone know the top quarter horses in quarter horse racing the 2010-2011 my mother to be wants to know?

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Horse Racing Executive:

The amazing 10-year-old thoroughbred stakes star Catlaunch could become a millionaire on Saturday at Thistledown.

A homebred owned by Ron Fields’s Scioto Farm stable of Chillicothe, Catlaunch returns to his favorite race track for the $50,000 George Lewis Memorial, a one and one-eighth mile test for Ohio-breds. The son of Noble Cat has earnings of $981,844, capturing 37 of 86 career starts. With a win this weekend, the gelding will gallop past the $1 million mark, and notch his 22d stakes victory.

“Catlaunch never seems to grow old,” said trainer Ivan Vazquez, who has been carefully picking starts for him in 2011. Vasquez has saddled Catlaunch for only three races, scoring wins in a trio of stakes for Ohio breds. Jockey Luis Gonzalez rode Catlaunch to victory in the $50,000 Babst/Palacios Memorial at Beulah Park on May 7; $50,000 Michael F. Rowland Memorial on May 28 at Thistledown; and $50,000 Sydney Gendelman Memorial at River Downs on June 11.

Catlaunch has a special liking for Thistledown and its dirt track, winning $531,000 here over the years.

“I would hate for Catlaunch to break the $1 million mark at any place other than Thistledown,” said Fields. “Thistledown has been a big part his career. I have always had confidence in Catlaunch, though I didn’t know he’d still be racing like this at the age of 10. But Catlaunch likes his job, and we like the job he’s doing.

“Catlaunch still has a lot of spunk. He’ll tell us when he’s ready to retire.”

In Warmup Catlaunch

Thistledown seems to be his favorite racing surface, said Vasquez, who has trained him for eight years.

“Catlaunch didn’t win a stake race until he was five, but he’s been pretty consistent ever since,” said Vazquez.

Catlaunch has had a problem drifting away from the rail in the stretch. It almost cost him in last month’s Gendelman Memorial, and figured in an upset in last year’s Lewis Memorial, when Bold Captain roared past him along the rail for a major upset at 31-1. But then, said Fields, Bold Captain beat a lot of good horses that day.

“I don’t know what’s going on with that,” said Vasquez. “Catlaunch usually stays on the rail and never goes to the outside. He might have gone too quick in the second half (at River Downs last month), and just got a little tired.”

The early favorite, Catlaunch has the rail in Saturday’s eighth race field of nine geldings, and top weight of 120 pounds. On his outside are Hephaestus, Busha’, Chapin Ridge, Heisman Star, Raise The Reward, Beau Mec, Powerball Too and Ramblin Mike.

Quick on their hooves: Canadian-owned Hare Craft ($3) sparkled in Ohio Sires Stakes action at Northfield Park last Saturday, pacing a 1:52 mile, the fastest of the season here in the $34,700 stake for three-year-old colts and geldings. With Aaron Byron in the sulky, the favored Yankee Cruiser colt was a wire-to-wire winner for owner Steve Heimbecker of Waterloo, Ontario and trainer Dan Ater.

The field of three-year-old trotting colts and geldings was split into a pair of $21,100 divisions. Shining Ember ($8.20) took the first division after posting a track record 1:55.2 with Dan Noble in the sulky. The Master Levec gelding nailed an 11-length victory for Ohio owners Jack Dailey of Jamestown, and Laverne Gales II of Spencerville. Dailey also trains Shining Ember.

Lima Legend ($103.20) needed the disqualification of Rose Run Mac for a major upset in the second trotting division, a 1:59 effort. Rose Run Mac was bumped from first to fourth for interfering with Count the Cost. Chip Noble drove Lima Legend for trainer Dee Hotton and owner Timura Trotters in Wooster.

Catlaunch winning another one

This information taken from http://www.cleveland.com