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     Speightscity
    SPEIGHTSCITY
    Owner: Team Stallion Racing Corp and McConnell Racing Stable 
    Trainer: Gary Contessa
    Jockey: Irad Ortiz, Jr.

    Morning Line Odds: 15-1

    Trainer Gary Contessa sends a runner to the Oklahoma Derby for the second consecutive year after saddling Socialsaul here in 2011 to finish fourth behind Redeemed, Alternation and Prayer For Relief

    Recently eighth of 11 in the Grade 1, $1,000,000 Travers Stakes at Saratoga, Speightscity made the mid-summer derby his return to action off a 6-1/2 month vacation. He battled for the lead until the stretch of the Travers before fading… In early February he was second in the Grade 3, $200,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct

    Speightscity competed in the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs, finishing ninth

    By Speightstown from the Quiet American mare My American Girl, Speightscity arrived at Remington Park on the Monday flight and has been to the track regularly, including a bullet half-mile breeze on Thursday morning in :49.41 seconds over a good track, dampened by overnight rains

    Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. will have the mount on Speightscity for the second consecutive race

    The chestnut is owned by Team Stallion Racing Corp. and McConnell Racing Stable. All of his connections are seeking their first Oklahoma Derby.