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Broadway Producer
Photo Credit: Jim McCue/MJC
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LAUREL, MD. 10-04-08---Last year they finished 1-1/2 lengths apart in the Maryland Million Turf. A year later the margin was even closer as Broadway Producer beat Dr. Rico by a neck in the $200,000 event.
Last year Broadway Producer finished third, Dr Rico finished second and Forty Crowns won the race in track record time. With Forty Crowns absent, these two separated themselves from the others and raced to the wire in tandem to the delight of the Maryland Million crowd.
Broadway Producer won the race in 1:49.99, far off the record 1:46.03 but to the delight of his backers, who were rewarded with a $4.20 win mutuel. Knight In Armour finished third.
John Terranova trains the winner at Belmont Park. He had crossed-entered the son of Not for Love in the Maryland Million Sprint, but opted for this race when the turf came up firm, his horse’s preferred surface.
Terranova said, “Last year he was a little tired, a little flat. The turf was hard last year and it was not an easy race. Today he was fresh. He’s doing fantastic. The weather cooperated and he has proven he could go a mile and an eighth. I was expecting a good race and got it.”
Horacio Karamanos rode the winner. He said, “This horse ran nice and easy the whole way. When I asked him to go forward, he responded. That other horse was challenging him so I hit him a couple more times but he was such a big horse I just hand rode him the last part.”
Karamanos will be leaving the colony for the winter to ride at San Isidro Race Course in his native Argentina. The 35-year-old will return to Maryland next spring prior to the Pimlico meeting.
Sovereign Stable and Gatsas Stables owns Broadway Producer. The 5-year-old was bred in Maryland by Fast Kitty Farms.
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