Toews on Ice Trying for Third Straight Stakes Win in $100,000 Bob Hope

Toews on Ice Trying for Third Straight Stakes Win in $100,000 Bob Hope

Category : News - Thu 12/11/2015 - 16:53 EST

On Saturday at Del Mar, the featured race is the $100,000 Bob Hope Stakes. Restricted to two-year-olds, the Grade 3 race will be contested at seven furlongs on the main track and has drawn a field of seven colts and geldings.

Toews on Ice, one of two horses in the race for trainer Bob Baffert, tops the field as the favorite at odds of 2-1 on the morning line. A dark bay son of Archarcharch, he has been on the board in all four of his starts and both victories came against stakes company. After winning the Speakeasy Stakes at Santa Anita last time out, he will step up to graded stakes competition and is scheduled to break from post position four under jockey Martin Garcia.

Stakes debut for maiden winner Jury

Second choice at morning line odds of 5-2 is Jury, one of two contenders who will come out of the Jerry Hollendorfer barn. A bay son of Tale of the Cat, he was purchased for $140,000 earlier in the year and will be making his stakes debut following a victory in his first career start. He broke his maiden as the favorite over eight rivals at Santa Anita last time out. Rafael Bejarano will be aboard and they will break from post position two.

Upset maiden winner Mac Daddy Mac stepping up

Also in the field at morning line odds of 8-1 is Mac Daddy Mac for trainer Kathy Ritvo. A chestnut son of Put it Back, he was purchased for $200,000 and will be stepping up to stakes competition for the first time. He broke his maiden at first asking last time out in an upset performance at odds of nearly 20-1 at Santa Anita. He will get a jockey change to Gary Stevens and they will break from post position five as he makes his stakes debut. 

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