Ice Fantasy Wins Selin Memorial
Here's the press release on Sunday's race that I wrote for the Race Track Industry Program...
ICE FANTASY EARNS JUMBO-SIZED PAYDAY IN INAUGURAL PETE SELIN MEMORIAL HAPPY MINUTE
TUCSON, Arizona (Monday, March 5, 2007) - With her first victory in nine months, the 5-year-old mare Ice Fantasy took home the Jumbo as the winner of Sunday’s inaugural Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute at Rillito Park in Tucson, Ariz.
Ice Fantasy dueled on the inside of post-time favorite Soha What through the early stages of the 5 1/2-furlong dash around two turns before kicking clear in the stretch to win by a comfortable margin. Soha What held on for second in the full field of eight older fillies and mares.
Like all races at Rillito, the official chart of the Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute remains unavailable until at least 48 hours after the race.
Rillito’s newest annual stakes event is named for turfwriter and University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program alumnus Pete Selin, who passed away last year at 52 after a prolonged battle with leukemia.
The race’s “Happy Minute” distinction recognizes one of Selin’s favorite traditions, a daily free drink at Tucson’s oldest watering hole, the Buffet Bar and Crock Pot.
Ice Fantasy received a trophy topped by the Buffet’s familiar 16-ounce beer glass known as the “Jumbo.” With the winner’s share of a $3,000-added purse, Ice Fantasy earned enough to purchase 1,714 Jumbos at “the Buff.”
Ice Fantasy was ridden by the meet’s leading rider, Steve Karr, for owner/trainer Harry Nelson of Fresno, Calif.
The Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute was organized by Selin’s former classmates Michael Costanzo of Pompano Park, Richard Scheidt of the Thoroughbred Owners of California, and Dr. Scot Waterman of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Racing Medication Testing Consortium, with additional support from F. Douglas Reed and the Race Track Industry Program.
Friends of Selin’s from around the country jammed the Rillito Park winner’s circle for the trophy presentation.
Plans are already in the works for next year’s Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute, which will complement a RTIP scholarship also to be named in Selin’s honor. For more information, contact the Race Track Industry Program at (520) 621-5660 or e-mail the Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute organizers at selinmemorial@yahoo.com.
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ICE FANTASY EARNS JUMBO-SIZED PAYDAY IN INAUGURAL PETE SELIN MEMORIAL HAPPY MINUTE
TUCSON, Arizona (Monday, March 5, 2007) - With her first victory in nine months, the 5-year-old mare Ice Fantasy took home the Jumbo as the winner of Sunday’s inaugural Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute at Rillito Park in Tucson, Ariz.
Ice Fantasy dueled on the inside of post-time favorite Soha What through the early stages of the 5 1/2-furlong dash around two turns before kicking clear in the stretch to win by a comfortable margin. Soha What held on for second in the full field of eight older fillies and mares.
Like all races at Rillito, the official chart of the Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute remains unavailable until at least 48 hours after the race.
Rillito’s newest annual stakes event is named for turfwriter and University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program alumnus Pete Selin, who passed away last year at 52 after a prolonged battle with leukemia.
The race’s “Happy Minute” distinction recognizes one of Selin’s favorite traditions, a daily free drink at Tucson’s oldest watering hole, the Buffet Bar and Crock Pot.
Ice Fantasy received a trophy topped by the Buffet’s familiar 16-ounce beer glass known as the “Jumbo.” With the winner’s share of a $3,000-added purse, Ice Fantasy earned enough to purchase 1,714 Jumbos at “the Buff.”
Ice Fantasy was ridden by the meet’s leading rider, Steve Karr, for owner/trainer Harry Nelson of Fresno, Calif.
The Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute was organized by Selin’s former classmates Michael Costanzo of Pompano Park, Richard Scheidt of the Thoroughbred Owners of California, and Dr. Scot Waterman of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s Racing Medication Testing Consortium, with additional support from F. Douglas Reed and the Race Track Industry Program.
Friends of Selin’s from around the country jammed the Rillito Park winner’s circle for the trophy presentation.
Plans are already in the works for next year’s Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute, which will complement a RTIP scholarship also to be named in Selin’s honor. For more information, contact the Race Track Industry Program at (520) 621-5660 or e-mail the Pete Selin Memorial Happy Minute organizers at selinmemorial@yahoo.com.
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