Stone Cold Leader Headlines Grade 2 Miss Polly Classic
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VINTON, LA—UNE 11, 2021—Patrick Richardson’s Stone Cold Leader, a 6-year-old son of the First Down Dash stallion Brookstone Bay, is one of 10 sprinters entered in Monday’s 400-yard, 50,000 Miss Polly Classic Stakes (G2) at Delta Downs.
Stone Cold Leader will be shortening in distance off of his second-place finish, a neck behind winner Black Cazador, in the 440-yard, $112,000 Sam Houston Classic Stakes (G2) at Sam Houston Race Park on May 28. The brown gelding has won 14 of 29 starts, including eight of nine at the 400-yard distance, and he has earned $557,793.
Stone Cold Leader drew post 2 and will be ridden by Rolando Pina for trainer Eric Long, who will also send out Wagons Dash. A 4-year-old Pyc Paint Your Wagon gelding owned by Edward H. Scott, Wagons Dash is coming off of of a second-place finish, a nose behind winner Black Cazador, in the 350-yard, $50,000 Sam Houston Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park on May 14.
Wagons Dash drew post 5 and will be ridden by Leonardo Rodriguez.
The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments:
- My Fast Prize (Nestor Duran)
- Stone Cold Leader (Rolando Pina)
- Apollitical B Snow (Everardo Rodriguez)
- Katchi Dat (Bryan Candanosa)
- Wagons Dash (Leonardo Rodriguez)
- Jess To Shine (Noe Villatoro)
- Fantasticazoom Jr (Arturo Alvarez)
- Jess B One (Juan F. Garcia Jr.)
- Mpshinning (Ali Rivera)
- Hot Dam Bam A Lam (Luciano Duenez)
All Delta Downs races can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.