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CALDER NOTEBOOK MAY 14, 2010 Wolfson & Wolfson Win Weekend Overnight Stakes Trainer Marty Wolfson has been on the national racing radar screen for the last two decades shipping stakes runners to tracks throughout the Midwest and Northeast from his year-round headquarters at Calder Race Course with considerable success, including Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) winner and champion turf star Miesque's Approval. Veteran horseman Milt Wolfson, no relation, has done quite well himself with a more modest family operation here during the same period developing stakes starsm including Lindsay Frolic, Super Frolic and more recently Annabill (Outflanker), a mare he claimed early in her career for $25,000 and ran her bankroll up to more than $600,000 before selling her privately. Marty sent out the favorites in both $55,000 overnight stakes run Saturday (May 8) at Calder, but had to settle for one win and one second after Milt saddled Stride Rite Racing's three-year-old BERNIE THE MAESTRO (Bernstein) to capture the Ride the Rails S. by two lengths going one mile and 70 yards over a sloppy track following a mid-afternoon thunderstorm. Bernie the Maestro was second choice and took command early, but had come again in the stretch after being headed by Gary Barber's favorite Coffee Boy (Yonaguska), who was making his first start for Marty. Coffee Boy had broken his maiden at Gulfstream Park by 8 1/2 lengths for trainer Todd Pletcher in his previous start. Earlier on the card, Marty won the Hollywood Wildcat S. going 7 1/2 furlongs on turf with Farnsworth Farms' CHEROKEE QUEEN (Cherokee Run), also making her first start for the stable after a private purchase from breeder J. Mack Robinson. The four-year-old filly of had finished a good second behind stakes winner Scolara (Quiet American) in a tough Gulfstream allowance in her previous start for trainer Graham Motion. Moreno a Jock to Watch Apprentice jockey Luis Saez, a finalist in the category for an Eclipse Award in 2009, has opened up an early lead in the Calder standings as many could have predicted, but another native of Panama, 21-year-old Angel Moreno, arrived in the United States over the winter and is doing well in the opening weeks of the session. Moreno began at Tampa Bay Downs early this year with a 10-pound allowance and is now allowed seven pounds. He has ridden five winners with three seconds from 27 mounts during the first two weeks, the fifth victory aboard RUSTY CHARLIE (Pure Precision) in the 10TH race Saturday. The four-year-old Rusty Charlie was posting his third straight victory for trainer Francisco Machado Jr. with Moreno aboard for all three, the first at Gulfstream Park on April 8 when Moreno still carried the 10-pound allowance. HORSES TO WATCH Thursday (5/6) 3RD -- LIME TIME (Lost Soldier) rallied five-wide into the far turn from eighth behind a moderate pace of :48 and 1:12 in a starter/allowance to be beaten only a head and a length for second as much-the-best winner Margaret Smile (Concerto) out-classed this field. Lime Time should find right spot and right pace scenario. Saturday (5/8) 3RD -- Juvenile WICKLOW ROYALE (Chapel Royal) finished third as the favorite in two-furlong career debut over a trip too short for his best. The colt can take the move up to maiden special from Saturday's $40,000 claiming tag when he gets to run around a turn next time for a trainer who is off to good start at the meet. Sunday (5/9) 2ND -- LADY CHARLIE (Indian Charlie) missed the break altogether as the favorite in maiden special turf test while making her first start for trainer Marty Wolfson after a private purchase for Farnsworth Stables. The daughter of Indian Charlie had finished a close-up second and third in two previous starts on grass at Gulfstream for $50,000 claiming tag, but may have a stakes race try in her future.
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