Saturday, March 11, 2017

Sonic Boom Takes Columbia stakes



Sonic Boom made his first trip to Tampa worthwhile, winning Saturday’s $75,000 Columbia stakes by 1/2 length under Julian Leparoux.

Sonic Boom’s time was 1:34.73 in the one-mile turf stakes, on the course listed as firm.

Trained by Ian Wilkes, this was the sophomore’s first stakes victory in a half-dozen starts. Profiteer, from the barn of hall-of-famer Shug McGaughey got up for the place after a furious rally up the rail that fell just short with Jose Ortiz in the irons. Show went to Holiday Stone, ridden by John Velazquez and trained by George Weaver.

The 3-1 winner returned $8.00, $4.00 and $3.20.  The $2 exacta was worth $32.80 and the $2 trifecta gave back $158.00.  

Wilkes’s plans for Sonic Boom are incomplete at this time. But we should expect to see this one again on the Kentucky circuit later this spring.
--Bob Bauer

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