Cycle Power wins at Cal Expo

A class rise didn't prevent Cycle Power from a repeat win. Conditioned-Claiming pacers, racing for a purse of $3,300, were featured at Cal-Expo on Wednesday night (April 28) over a sloppy track, on which Cycle Power was fastest of all.

Before starting from post-position three in a field reduced to six as a result of two scratches, was driver Steve Wiseman concerned that his charge was going from Non-Winners-5 to Non-Winners-8?

"Not really because he's a big strong horse who has been coming around - - I thought he'd be okay," stated Wiseman.

Coming away in fourth position through first-half fractions of :30 & 1:00.4 set by Rude Awakening (Jim Lackey), Wiseman wasn't worried that he was continuously having to chase after his gelding.

"He's kind of a lazy horse to get going, but once he gets going he's fine - - so I was just trying to keep him up on the bit pretty good.  It didn't concern me because I had to do it last week with him when he won."

Out slightly with cover to the three-quarter mile pole, Wiseman, off a three-quarters timed in 1:30, knew what to expect.

"I knew it was going to come down to a dash, so I was just hoping to get a spot with good footing because the track was pretty slippery.  With it I thought I had a decent shot because he can pace home pretty strongly."

Moving four-wide into the stretch and gaining at the seven-eighths mile marker, the four year-old soon was flying with a sixteenth of a mile to go.

"He was good and strong in the stretch and inside the sixteenth pole I thought I had a shot to win with him.  As it turned out - - we got there."

Closing fast to the wire, the Nathalie Tremblay owned and trained pacer got up on the line to win ($6.20) by one-length, in 1:58.1.  Rude Awakening was a game second, and Got No Troubles (John Chappell) was another 2-1/2-lengths farther back, in third.

"He raced good like he raced last week. It was a very good race for him," finished Wiseman, who had four winners on the night.(Cal Expo)

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