Yaupon Gets First Win of 2021 in Lite The Fuse Stakes Sponsored by:
Yaupon with jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr. wins the Lite the Fuse Stakes at Pimlico.
Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt s multiple graded-stakes winner Yaupon made a triumphant return to historic Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md. Sunday, putting away pacesetting Chateau and turning back Laki – both Grade 3 winners – to snap a two-race losing streak in the $100,000 Lite the Fuse Stakes.
The six-furlong Lite the Fuse for 3-year-olds and up, named for the two-time Grade 1Carter Handicap and Grade 2 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash winner, returned to the Maryland stakes calendar for the first time since being run in 2002 at Laurel Park.
Yaupon Returns to Winning Ways in Lite the Fuse Stakes
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Yaupon Hopes to Recapture Form in Lite the Fuse
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Special Reserve Gives Red-Hot Maker Another Graded Stakes Win In Maryland Sprintspecial Sponsored by:
Special Reserve puts away Strike Power en route to his victory in the Maryland Sprint Stakes
Trainer Michael Maker has a knack for turning claiming horses into graded stakes winners. He did it on Friday when Last Judgment, a $62,500 claim, won the Grade 3 Pimlico Special on the opening day of Preakness weekend at Old Hilltop in Baltimore, Md. He accomplished the feat again on Preakness day Saturday when Special Reserve captured the Grade 3, $150,000 Maryland Sprint Stakes, three races after Maker claimed the 5-year-old Midshipman gelding for $40,000 at Oaklawn Park.