Sire Stakes headlines Cal Expo program
At 0h05, on February 21, 2025 • By Mark Ratzky, Cal Expo Harness
The first California Sire Stakes of the season for the 3-year-old pacing males is the main attraction Friday night (Feb. 21) at Cal Expo with a field of eight vying in the $20,000 contest.
Watch and Wager LLC will present 10 races Friday night with first post set for 9:45 p.m. The co-features are an Open Pace headed by Alilthundadownunda and a Filly and Mare Open Pace featuring Graceful Horizon.
The Minnesota Kid looms a major player in the Sire Stakes as the son of Karpathian Kid will be making his seasonal debut for owner Stephanie Ann Longo, trainer Jose Castillo and pilot Luke Plano. He showed plenty of potential last summer at Running Aces, winning three of his five starts and has a couple of solid qualifiers under his belt to prepare for this assignment.
Blazin For Life is another who displayed promise as a 2-year-old in Minnesota and scored a solid victory over this course two weeks ago for owners Alan and Cheryl Sandbulte and trainer Nick Roland.
That barn will also be represented by Set The Pacing Racing LLC’s JK Cache Meoutside, who just missed in his local debut last week to another major player in Dougs Moonshine, who goes about his business for owner/breeders Rick Bertrand and Doug Flores and their partner Amy Fichtner, with Bertrand training.
Completing the field are Tutto Bene, Night Train Lane, Yerderntootin and Aint No Uppy Man.
