BY JIMMIE, Star Racing Writer
TRAINER ALLAN E. 'Billy' Williams' CRAYONS TO PERFUME has looked improved at exercise and should make a winning return off a three-month lay-up in tomorrow afternoon's fourth race for three-year-old maidens.
Debuting mid-January at 1100 metres, CRAYONS TO PERFUME showed signs of ability when finishing 13 lengths fifth behind BELLA IN BLOOM, who was seven and a half-length clear of runner-up GO MAR GO.
Williams, the veteran trainer, who, in mid-2004 masterfully nurtured MIRACLE MAN from a green, rangy debutant to Derby and Superstakes winner the following year, looks set to once again work his magic on CRAYONS TO PERFUME.
The filly has been quietly prepared with a winning return in mind. An impressive 1:02.1 for five furlongs round last week Thursday morning was topped by a three-furlong spin of 35.3 this past Tuesday, again on the round course.
Both workouts suggest CRAYONS TO PERFUME has come on a ton since debuting at the start of the year and with none of her 15 rivals showing anything special in multiple starts, the chestnut filly should shed her maiden tag under Paul Francis.
JACKPOTS AT $1.6M
The upsets came fast and furious on Wednesday, starting at the first race with 99-1 shocker CRIMSON GUIDE. Others such as DIXIE MILANO at 13-1, STACKA at 8-1 and UNCLE D & ME at 6-1 ensured the $1m Pick-9 and $500,000 Super-6 both remained intact.
Wayne DaCosta's SI MI TRIAL and Philip Feanny's American debutant, FOUND IN THE MIST, are both bankers for exotic bettors hunting the Super-6, $625,949 and Pick-9, $1m, carryovers.
SI MI TRIAL, who ticked off her seventh win from 10 starts on April 1, beating JUST SOME THOUGHTS and PRECOCIOUS MISS D, returns in the 1000-metre straight fifth race treated with lasix after a less than impressive win at 1200 metres.
The speedy filly was notching her second straight win appeared to be coming back a bit, winning by only three quarters of a length. DaCosta apparently called in the vet and lasix will be administered for what could be a case of internal bleeding.
At her best, SI MI TRIAL, with only 51.0 kilos, should blind NASATOL, MUSICAL MAESTRO and FLYING TIGER with speed from the word go. In her last three starts, she only found A KING IS BORN a better sprinter in last November's Red Stripe Caribbean Sprint.
FOUND IN THE MIST, a three-year-old American debutant, impressed at exercise this past Monday when galloping out of the straight alongside Open Allowance MUSICAL MAESTRO, clocking 1:00.4.
The day's dark horse should be Tony Kirlew's PLEASURE CRUISE in the seventh at 1000 metres straight among four-year-old and upward maidens.
Kirlew's colt hasn't raced since September but finished less than five lengths behind RIGMAROLE and DIAMOND KING at 1000 metres straight in what appeared to have been his second serious attempt in 16 starts.
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