Penn pair named a gameofskill.com Claimer of the Week
We celebrate the beginning of the second year of the agameofskill.com Claimer of the Week by honoring a pair of claimers that battled to a dead heat. In the opening race at Penn National Saturday night heavy favorite Fiscal Stimulus and longshot Muscadine hit the wire together in a thriller. Off at 3-10, Fiscal Stimulus performed as expected by fighting for the early lead and held a slight advantage for nearly the entire race. It looked like the favorite could hold off all challengers but Muscadine, who was the longest shot on the board at 21-1, began a rally from the very back of the pack and refused to let up. Muscadine’s cyclonic finish along the rail assured a second photograph would be taken after the two winners covered the 6 panels in 1:11.45 over a surface labeled “good.” Fiscal Stimulus was ridden by Andrew Wolfsont and Muscadine’s pilot was Trevor McCarthy.
Fiscal Stimulus is owned by the Mulberry Stable and trained by Richard Beattie. The 5 year old gelding now has 7 career wins with 16 in the money finishes from 25 starts. The son of Roman Ruler has bankrolled $210,000 in lifetime earnings. Muscadine is trained by James Nicholson, Jr. and owned by Candy’s Racing Stable. The 5 year old horse has 50 lifetime starts and has finished in the money 25 times. Saturday’s effort was career win number 8 for the son of Include, who now has $125,000 of lifetime earnings.
-Art Parker
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Rich:
I’ve seen a million photo finishes in my days at the races (former Race Book Manager) and I still can’t believe they didn’t put up the 2 horse, Muscadine….who was clearly up at the wire……. What gives with these stewards ?