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Send Me This Wagon Wins $28,825 Distaff Bonus Challenge
Send Me This Wagon, under jockey Jorge Torres, winning th Canterbury Distaff Bonus Challenge Sunday at Canterbury Park.

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Send Me This Wagon Wins $28,825 Distaff Bonus Challenge

SHAKOPEE, MN—AUGUST 2, 2015—Send Me This Wagon survived a less-than-perfect trip to win the $28,825 Canterbury Distaff Bonus Challenge by a neck Sunday at Canterbury Park. The 4-year-old filly set the track record last year by covering 400 yards in 19.583 seconds. On Sunday she finished the same distance in 20.216 seconds.

The prohibitive favorite, ridden by Jorge Torres and trained by Stacy Charette-Hill, paid $2.60 to win.

Send Me This Wagon, breaking from the outside post in a six-horse field, lost her footing at the start and was brushed by Xoom.

“We were brushed and pushed outside,” Torres said. “But the farther she went, the stronger she got.”

Trainer Stacy Charette-Hill and jockey Jorge Torres accept the Canterbury Distaff Bonus Challenge stakes trophy on Sunday at Canterbury Park. © Coady Photography
Send Me This Wagon, owned by the trainer and her husband Randy Hill, has now won six of 11 career races and $94,772 in purses.

“I thought it was over when she fell,” Charette-Hill said. “Her back end slipped coming out of the gate. We are fortunate to have a filly like her.”

Call As Maybe finished second and Xoom was third.

Racing for owner Michael Teel, Call As Maybe is a daughter of leading sire Mr Jess Perry from the Dashin Is Easy mare None As Easy. Bred in Oklahoma by Walt and Pat Fletcher, the gray filly earned $5,767 for her effort. Larren Delome had riding call for trainer Charlton Hunt.

Paul Treadwell's home bred Xoom earned $4,324 for her third place finish. Ed Ross Hardy conditions the Shazoom filly out of Dashing Dion, by Heza Fast Man. David Pinon had the riding call.

Send Me This Wagon is expected to compete in the Merial Distaff Challenge at Prairie Meadows in September.

Thirty Six Belles, A Priceless Gal and Dreamnwideopen completed the field. R Diva was scratched.