Button Down Racing Tries For Another Big Weekend

The Martin Luther King holiday weekend was supposed to provide a lot of racing action for the partners of Button Down Racing. The Louisville-based LLC was poised to have three starters get to the post at Turfway Park. Then the roof fell in.

“Sun Button was a heavy 8-5 favorite in his race on Friday night,” said Michael Hardesty, president of Button Down. “But the card was cancelled due to the bitter cold temperatures that night. Then on Monday, the track didn’t use the race into which we had entered Sea Button. The only horse that started for us was Brunette on Saturday, and she didn’t have a good outing.”

But this weekend, all three of those BDR horses are entered again and the weather is predicted to be downright mild. Sea Button will get things started for Hardesty and his partners on Friday night. The five-year-old mare faces seven opponents in the eighth race, an open claiming event at six-furlongs. John McKee has the mount.

Then on Saturday Brunette will take her turn in a maiden, five-and-a-half furlong sprint, when Victor Lebron takes her postward in the sixth race. The three-year-old filly is part of an eight-horse field.

Sun Button, a three-year-old colt, will run the “anchor” leg of BDR’s weekend in a six-furlong maiden race on Sunday. The race is the eighth on the day’s card and Billy Troilo will ride and break from the seven-hole in a field of nine.

“Coincidentally, all three of our starters will be wearing blinkers for the first time,” noted Hardesty. I had to scramble and buy a couple of extra sets.”

If he gets his wish, it will have been money well spent.

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