For years the WCHR and ECHR have been know for our debut winners....Yesterday's opener featured a $19 first timer, today's debut winner returned $28.....

FIRST RACE:  Things begin with a Maiden Special Weight at 5 ½ furlongs on the TURF. Top selection is SHIRL’S SOUL TOWN (#1). He debuts for Rice, a 4 year old by Speightstown, and what’s interesting is that the connections have obviously liked their decision when it came to breeding to this one’s mare, breeding to Bee Jersey three times, Speightstown three times, and twice to More Than Ready. This tells us the runners have looked good, put together well, prompting ‘em to go back multiple times to these particular stallions. Back around 2002, I wrote an article for American Turf Monthly entitled “The Odd Equals Beware,” where I discussed the odd path a horse can take to his or her debut, and we like this one’s path - The Thoroughbred Center, Belmont, now up at Saratoga, a plan in place heading into this first effort upstate with solid turf jock Jose Ortiz taking the call.

$28 to WIN!