Reprized Halo, Delightful Mary top OBS Day of Champions

REPRIZED HALO (Halo's Image) and DELIGHTFUL MARY (Limehouse) head their

respective divisions of the $100,000 OBS Championship S. as OBS holds its 22nd

annual Day of Champions race card on Monday.

The races, which will be run over OBS' all-weather Safetrack surface, offer

purses totaling $300,000 and will be streamed live via the

OBS website. Post time for

the first race is 1 p.m. (EDT).

It's the third start of the year for Reprized Halo, whose juvenile campaign

was highlighted by his front-running victory over fellow OBS graduate and

next-out Delta Downs Jackpot S. (G3) winner Gourmet Dinner (Trippi) in the In

Reality division of the Florida Stallion S. He'll be ridden by Jose Alvarez for

trainer Manuel Azpurua.

STRIKE OIL (Forest Wildcat) makes his second start of the year for trainer

Mark Casse. The bay colt broke his maiden last season when taking Woodbine's

Coronation Futurity in November, but was outrun against allowance rivals when

trying a conventional dirt track for the first time in his seasonal bow. Shaun

Bridgmohan has the call on Strike Oil in his return to a synthetic surface

against seven rivals.

Delightful Mary heads a field of seven in the filly division of the OBS

Championship S. Third in last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at

Churchill Downs and pointed for the Kentucky Oaks (G1) at the same track, she

makes her first start of the year for Casse in Monday's contest. Bridgmohan,

aboard the Mazarine S. (Can-G3) third-placer in her Breeders' Cup run, retains

the mount.

The chestnut filly's main competition could come from stablemate SILENT MOON

(Malibu Moon), who is also making her first start as a three-year-old. That

chestnut lass ended her juvenile campaign with two straight wins at Woodbine and

will get a ride switch to Rajiv Maragh.

CRISTAL JAK (Drewman), second to undefeated champion Awesome Feather (Awesome

of Course) in last summer's Susan's Girl division of the Florida Stallion S,,

heads a field of 10 in the afternoon's 1ST race, the $50,000 OBS Sprint for

three-year-old fillies. The Antonio Sano-trained dark bay, who will be ridden by

Luis Saez, is still seeking her second career win after breaking her maiden by

seven lengths in August.

She'll face stiff competition from her rivals, including last-out Gulfstream

Park maiden victress HOLIDAY FLARE (Harlan's Holiday) and GROUNDSWELL (Forest

Wildcat), triumphant by 2 3/4 lengths in a Woodbine maiden when last seen in

July.

RIBO BOBO (Louis Quatorze) heads a field of eight in the $50,000 OBS Sprint

for three-year-old colts and geldings after taking last summer's Foolish

Pleasure S. at Calder. The Azpurua charge has since placed in two stakes,

including Churchill's Iroquois S. (G3), and will have Ariel Smith aboard.

Multiple stakes-placed MOTIN (Congrats) and Spectacular Bid S. fourth

GANGSTERONTHERUN (City Zip) are also in with a chance.

For more information regarding the OBS Championship Stakes, please call

352-237-2154 or visit the OBS

website.