Button Down Racing Has Big Night At Turfway

Button Down Racing got a win and a place out of its two entries at Turfway Park on Friday, Sept. 11. Clockwork Angel, Button Down Racing’s two-year-old filly, won a maiden special race, then Button Dancer came in second in the very next contest.

It was Clockwork Angel’s first outing and she overtook four horses in the stretch to win by a widening one-and-three-quarters lengths. The two-year-old daughter of Forrest Camp was ridden by Leandro Goncalves in the seventh race on the card and she provided his fifth win of the night.

Goncalves was then aboard BDR’s Button Dancer in the eighth race and guided the four-year-old filly to a second place finish.

“She was very professional in the paddock,” said trainer William “Buff” Bradley about Clockwork Angel. “And she was the same way in the test barn. I love to see that in young horses.”

“She certainly acted as if she’d been there-done that,” echoed BDR president Michael Hardesty. “We had a lot of owner-partners in for the race and ‘Angel’ entertained them well.”

Backers of Clockwork Angel were rewarded with payouts of $9.20 to win, $4.00 to place and $3.00 to show. Hardesty was non-committal with his plans for the filly. “We’ll see how she is in a couple of days, then Buff and I will come up with a plan,” he said.

Button Dancer, a Bill Connelly-trained daughter of Runaway Dancer, was a fast-closing second in the early stretch, but was no match late for Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Collar, the eventual nine-length winner.

“They’re (the Ramseys) tough to compete with,” lamented Hardesty. “They claimed that horse (Collar) for $50,000 at Saratoga, then ran her for $30,000 at Turfway. But there’s nothing in the rules against that.”

Button Dancer had won her two previous races. “I can’t be unhappy with her,” said Hardesty. “Two wins and a place in her last three is a nice string. We’ll find something for her in October, either here at Turfway where she trains or at Keeneland.”

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