Comma to the Top fights to the finish in Tom Fool

Comma to the Top stopped the clock in 1:10 1/5 for the six-furlong dash over

the fast track with Joel Rosario in the irons. The 2-1 favorite returned $6.30,

$4.30 and $3.40 to his backers.

"He tries hard, this horse," Rosario said. "To come in here and show up like

that, he's something special. He hung on there and kept going. I didn't know

whether I had won, it was tough. I'm glad for the horse he won."

With this seventh career stakes score to his credit, Comma to the Top now

boasts $1,180,696 in earnings from his 28-12-2-2 line. The bay earned three

stakes victories as a juvenile in 2010 -- the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity, Grade 3

Generous and Real Quiet.

A gallant runner-up in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby in 2011, Comma to the

Top took a swing at the Kentucky Derby, but trailed home last and exited the

race with an ankle injury that required surgery. He returned to action in the

fall of 2011, but won only one of three starts.

Sidelined until last summer, Comma to the Top made a winning four-year-old

debut in a turf sprint allowance at Golden Gate Fields, and followed up with a

third in the Robert K. Kerlan Memorial at Hollywood Park. He has since added

stakes wins in the Pirate's Bounty over Del Mar's Polytrack, the Big Bear

Handicap and the Grade 3 Daytona at Santa Anita, along with fourths in the Grade

1 Bing Crosby, Grade 3 Eddie D., Grade 3 Vernon O. Underwood and Grade 2 Palos

Verdes.

Comma to the Top was bred by Richard and Linda Thompson in Florida, and first

sold for just $5,000 as an OBS October weanling. At the same venue as a

two-year-old in training in April 2010, the bay was purchased by Miller for

$22,000.

The son of Bwana Charlie was produced by the Stormy Atlantic mare Maggies

Storm, who is herself a half-sister to stakes winner Yes He's a Pistol. Comma to

the Top's second dam is Grade 3 victress Maggies Pistol.

Bet Horseracing Free Online at TwinSpires.com