Smokin Passion will attempt to hold out her winning trait to four. When she takes on half a rivals in Friday Emerald Downs facet, a six-furlong race for and mares unattached to be for $10,000.
Smokin Passion, a 4-year-old of Petersburg from the barn of trainer Jim Penny, has been at this seminar. Though she ran another against maiden extraordinary weight runners here last period, she began her up-to-date campaign on the $5,000 maiden flat as a pancake. She won that 5 1/2-furlong race by approximately three as the 3-5 chosen, then came back to post a 9 1/2-amount win over $4,000 nonwinners of two at the same 3-5.
In her most modern visit on July 5, Smokin Passion was bet down to 1-9 against $7,500 nonwinners of , and won off by 3 1/2 lengths in 1:16.60 for 6 1/2 . She will be upping the claiming price and assembly open company for the first time on Friday, but she is a snug fit on the Beyer Speed Figure scale and is coming off a nifty five-furlong calisthenics in 59.80 on Monday.
Among Smokin Passion’s more amazing opponents is Gold Deville, who is coming off a close following-estate end against $15,000 rivals on July 6, when she was beaten just a neck in 1:10 for six . Gold Deville, a 6-year-old qualified by Pat Mullens, crushed $15,000 foes in her sporadic introduction on May 3, but she is winless in six subsequent starts, warning the price cut.
