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Finger Lakes standout ready for stakes try at Saratoga
Posted: Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:18 PM
After rolling to three victories by a combined 36¾ lengths at Finger Lakes, Lisa’s Booby Trap is being pointed to a stakes debut at the more well-known upstate New York track on August 6.
A three-year-old Florida-bred filly by Drewman, Lisa’s Booby Trap was entered in the Betfair/TVG Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) but was scratched from that July 24 race at Saratoga Race Course. Owner-trainer Tim Snyder will point Lisa’s Booby Trap, who is named after his wife who died of cancer on Christmas Eve 2003, in the $70,000 Loudonville Stakes for three-year-old fillies at the Spa..
Snyder believes his wife’s spirit is connected with his star Thoroughbred.
“She was on some heavy medication at the end, and she kept telling her mother ‘Don’t worry, I’m coming back as a horse,’ “ Snyder said. “She was a wonderful woman.”
Snyder privately purchased the filly in January for $4,500. She is blind in her left eye and arrived with some ankle problems, but she has overcome those challenges to earn $33,660 in her first three starts. Snyder said starting at Finger Lakes helped the filly build her confidence.
“I wanted to start from the beginning and take it step, by step, by step – like a boxer,” Snyder said. “At Finger Lakes, we built her confidence, and her heart.”
Friday morning, Lisa’s Booby Trap worked five furlongs in a bullet :59.34 on Saratoga’s main track immediately after the renovation break. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux, who Snyder said would ride the filly in the Loudonville, was aboard for the work.
A breakthrough stakes win for Lisa’s Booby Trap also would provide former Florida-based sire Drewman, a stakes-placed winner of $188,852, with his first career stakes winner. The 12-year-old by Unbridled out of the Notebook mare Ennuhway, he stood his first six seasons at Ocala Stud Farm before he was relocated to stand in 2010 for a $1,500 fee at New England Stallion Station in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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Posted by: Lynn, Ocala, FL on August 12, 2010 at 11:12 AM
I am so thrilled for this guy and his horse, I hope she keeps winning. I have a 2 yr. old filly that has been called a train wreck by 3 horse pro's. I love her to death so this story gives me hope that she will be a an OK show horse someday.
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Posted by: kevin, ocala, FL on August 06, 2010 at 02:34 PM
She won easily. She is the real deal.
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Posted by: Joan, Norwalk, CT on August 06, 2010 at 02:26 PM
Why didn't someone make video of race available online? The Lisa's Booby Trap story is worth it!
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Posted by: anita, marion, NY on July 31, 2010 at 07:50 PM
I hope that she runs better than ever. That she is the quality filly her owner/trainer believe she is.
And that she will remain sound during her racing career. Best of luck.
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