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Adios Field now Set

August 8, 2007

The 41st edition of the Delvin Miller Adios for three-year-old pacing colts will be held this Saturday afternoon, August 11 at The Meadows, in Washington, Pennsylvania. The race will be the last conducted in front of the track’s original grandstand, which has been in place almost 50 years, since the track’s construction in the early 1960s.

The race will be conducted on a day time card, starting at noon. A total of 16 horses, see entries below, drew in to the race. Post positions will be drawn at 5 pm at the track. Horses will be divided in to two elimination races, numbers 10 and 11, for a purse of $50,000 each. The top four finishers will advance to a final race, with the winners selecting their posts. The final for the purse of $320,125 will go as race 15 on the afternoon card.

The top money earner in the field is Southwind Lynx, winner of two million dollar races this year, the Rooney Race and The Meadowlands Pace. Just this weekend, Southwind Lynx won a division of the Oliver Wendell Holmes at The Meadowlands in a career best time of 1:48.3.

Trainer and co-owner George Teague says Southwind Lynx seems to be coming to the race in good form.

“He jogged this morning and he looked good when he came out of it,” says Teague. The sole millionaire in the Adios field is also holding his weight well, “He’s a good doer [eater], but hasn’t been over raced either, so that helps. He’s going to have get geared up shortly to race more consistently, but he’s a pretty good horse on himself, he’s never stayed out of the feed tub, so he’s good that way.”

Southwind Lynx got sick on a long ship to Canada for the North America Cup in June, but Teague doesn’t think the 336 mile trip to The Meadows will bother the colt, “I don’t think it’s going to be a problem, I don’t know if it was the trip or the stress on the trip to Canada, a bunch of them got sick.”

He’s concerned about the colt racing twice in one day for the first time, but thinks his fitness will carry him through.

“It’s always a concern. I don’t think any of us particularly like racing double heats,” says Teague. “I don’t do anything special [to prepare], I kind of stick to the same routine. If they’re fit, they’re fit. I‘ve been lucky with the heat races; they never seemed to make a difference to mine. I’m kind of relying on the same routine that kept me through the last year when I had a couple heat races and it didn’t hurt me at all. I’m hoping it will come along, like everything else.”

Teague also expects to start a trio of fillies in the Adios companion event for three-year-old pacing fillies, The Adioo Volo, also on August 11, for a purse of $150,000.

“I’ve got Isabella Blue Chip [winner of $658,583 in her career], Artcotic [$210,186] and another filly named Betting Machine [$122,602]. She’s no Artcotic or Isabella, but…,” he laughed.