Race Recap

Chasing Time ran a hard and valiant second today at Ellis Park behind upset winner Friar Laurence who stopped the clock in a very swift 1:22 in the seven-furlong allowance race contested over a sloppy track.

After breaking a step slowly Chasing Time was hustled up the rail by Rafael Bejarano and set fractions of 22.34 and 44.70 seconds for the quarter and half mile splits and by the time Chasing Time hit three-quarters in 1:09.18, Friar Laurence who was sitting a few lengths behind Chasing Time on the backstretch had all the momentum and drew away in the stretch to win by 2 ½ lengths at the end. After the race, trainer Steve Asmussen said being down on the rail was not the place to be today with all the water piling up. Unfortunately, its where we drew and given Chasing Time’s break and preferred running style there really wasn’t much that could be done to get him out of that spot.

We’ll check back in with Steve in the coming days to see how Chasing Time came out of the race and where we’ll head from here.