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Silver Train chugs out Tom Fool victory Four Roses Thoroughbreds' SILVER TRAIN (Old Trieste) captured his second straight stakes when annexing Sunday's $150,000 Tom Fool H. (G2) at Belmont Park. Anew (Awesome Again) broke to the early lead as jockey Edgar Prado settled Silver Train in third. War Front (Danzig) soon passed Anew to take the advantage and led through splits of :23 and :45 1/5 before Prado took Silver Train off the rail and swung him three wide into the stretch, where the four-year-old colt battled with War Front through six furlongs in 1:08 4/5. Silver Train was able to collar that one, winning by a neck at the wire and completing the seven-furlong affair in 1:21 3/5 over the fast track. "He broke good and he was right there," Prado said. "He wasn't too happy inside, so I took him out and eased him to the outside. He had another gear after that. He's a very game horse. I'm going to give all the credit to him." Sent off as the 4-5 favorite, Silver Train rewarded his backers with payouts of $3.60, $2.60 and $2.10 for his efforts. War Front gave back $3.80 and $3.10 for his game second while Big Apple Daddy (Precise End) hit the wire another six lengths back in third to return $2.90 at 7-1. The exotics paid $11.80 (exacta) and $29.80 (1-2-3 trifecta). Anew was next and followed by Mach Speed (A.P. Indy) and Voodoo (Petionville). Sir Greeley (Mr. Greeley) was scratched. "I'm going to give him the summer off and get him ready for the Vosburgh ([G1] on October 7)," trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. said. "That's the only thing we've got left to do with him. "I'm not going to take him to another track," Dutrow added regarding the colt's 7-5-0-1 record at Belmont Park. "I know it don't work. The Vosburgh is a Grade 1, it's here at this track and we've got to do it. He'll be fresh and ready." Bred in Kentucky by Joe Mulholland Sr., Joe Mulholland Jr. and John Mulholland, Silver Train is out of the multiple stakes-placed mare Ridden in Thestars (Cormorant), whose most recent foals are an unnamed yearling colt by High Yield and a 2006 filly by Johannesburg. Silver Train was purchased for $140,000 at the 2003 Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Sale and has now earned $1,217,345 with a mark of 15-6-3-3 that includes wins in last year's Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) and Jerome H. (G2). Prior to this one, the dark bay captured the Metropolitan H. (G1) by a head.
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