Cilla, Ova Charged Matchup Top Louisiana Champion Day

On Louisiana Championship Day, a card at Fair Grounds & Slots State-specific hybrids, two 3-year-olds who succeeded outside of their state this year are afternoon celebrities.

While the $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Ladies Sprint isn’t the richest of the 13 races, trailing the $150,000 Louisiana Champions Day Classic, the Ladies Sprint delivers a match. The most exciting match. At the top of the race is a light race Ova charges , representing owner/raider Brittlyn Stable and trainer Jose Camejo, and a relatively seasoned graded stake winner, Cilla , owned by P. Dale Ladner, and bred by Ladner and Brett Brinkman, her trainer.

Ova Charged, daughter of Louisiana legend The star’s guitar , who has won 24 of her 30 races, potentially becoming one of her best horses ever produced. That title is now due to Mint to Stardom , who withdrew $536,180 for similar connections, winning the Women’s Sprint in 2019.

‘Last time’ was a allowable option title race on November 28 at the Fair Grounds which she won in 10 and a half seconds, running six races in 1:09.51. That race after finishing runner-up in Victory Ride Stakes (G3) at Belmont Parkand before that, win at Monmouth Park and Delta Downs in open company.

The 3 for 4 result is favorite in 7-5 place on the light line behind Cilla with a score of 6-5.

Via California Chrome off the sprint track Sittin At the Bar , Cilla this year is 4-7, a record that includes winning the Prioress Stakes (G2) at Racecourse Saratoga. Most recently this fall, she ran third in the Lexus Raven Run Stakes (G2) at Keeneland on a seven-way trip that might exceed her best distance. She’s part of a demanding pacing that contributes to the belated fading.

“Having taken nothing off of the two fillings was way ahead of her,” says Brinkman — they are really pretty fillings — but she ran after the wire, it wasn’t like she hung it up.

She finished 3rd out of 6 women’s sprints of 6.

Top tier winners also compete on the Louisiana Champions Day card in No parole . Maggi Moss and Greg Tramontin’s 4-year-old son is owned by Violence , winner of the 2020 Woody Stephens Stake presented by Claiborne Farms (G1) at Belmont Park, seeks to return from a remote-terminated pair.

He was the favorite on the morning of 3-1 on the $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Sprint bet, also at six. Trainee Tom Amoss faces competition led by Ivery Sisters Racing’s Monte Man , last year’s Sprint winner for coach Ron Faucheux.

Classic 1 1/8 mile draws a modest lineup, led by Israel Flores Horses’ Pound for Pound , trained by Andrea Ali, and Grand Luwegee , who runs for owner/trainer Gerard Perron.