KELVIN ‘N’

Thir­ty-nine hors­es have tak­en en­try for Fri­day’s sev­en-race card of the Ari­ma Race Club (ARC) at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma. On Fri­day which is Eman­ci­pa­tion Day, tur­fites and pun­ters alike will see the sec­ond jew­el of lo­cal rac­ing’s Triple Crown, the Grade One Mid­sum­mer Clas­sic be­ing run off over 1,800 me­tres on the turf course.

This race pits the John O’Brien-trained un­beat­en three-year-old Head­lin­er against six ri­vals in­clu­sive of sta­ble­mate So­ca Ec­sta­cy which won im­pres­sive­ly last time out.

An­oth­er im­por­tant fea­ture is the re­turn of the cham­pi­on horse of T&T, Hel­lo World which will be rac­ing af­ter win­ning the Tan­gle­wood Stakes in Bar­ba­dos. He will re­turn for the Poon Tip Stud Farm in the Mod­i­fied Bench­mark Hand­i­cap over 1,600m on the turf course.

Cham­pi­on train­er O’Brien has his string ready for ac­tion and will be at­tack­ing six of the sev­en events.

In the Mid­sum­mer Clas­sic, O’Brien sad­dles two run­ners, Head­lin­er and So­ca Ec­sta­cy and has two in the co-fea­ture sixth event with Hel­lo World and Crown Prince. The Mid­sum­mer Clas­sic has a purse of $87,416.

Jonathan Ly­der al­so has two run­ners in Show­time and Supreme Pow­er while Glen Em­manuel sad­dles Free Pass and Jose Williams Sama­roo has The Fal­con en­gaged. The fi­nal horse in the event is the Ter­rence Thomas new­com­er Just Is­sa Bel­la.

O’Brien con­tin­ues his great form af­ter win­ning the Grade One - Tan­gle wood Stakes in Bar­ba­dos. He has won every ma­jor event con­test­ed at San­ta Rosa Park this sea­son.

When en­tries were tak­en yes­ter­day a to­tal on 39 hors­es are con­sid­ered for the Ari­ma Race Club’s (ARC) sev­en-race card.

Post time is 12.45 pm.