Aiken-trained Dance to Bristol wins Marshua Stakes

Copperville Farm's Dance to Bristol won her second stakes race Saturday, and in dominating fashion as she captured the 6-furlong Marshua Stakes winning by 5 3/4-lengths at Laurel Park. It was the first win of the chestnut filly's sophomore campaign.

The daughter of the 2004 Eclipse Award winning Sprinter Speightstown had placed fourth in her 2012 debut, the 6-furlong Ruthless Stakes at Aqueduct on Jan. 14, the only time that Dance to Bristol has finished off the board.

Dance to Bristol's juvenile campaign featured two outstanding stakes performances to close 2011, with a second place finish in the Smart Halo Stakes at Laurel Park on Nov. 19, and a win in the 6-furlong Pandera Stakes at Aqueduct on Dec. 7.

Ollie Figgins, III, conditions Dance to Bristol, who was broken and trained by Cary and Tim Frommer. Dance to Bristol has 3 wins from seven starts, and has placed second three times, and increased her lifetime earnings to $123,350.

Dogwood Stable's Raconteur has told a different story during his sophomore campaign, scoring consecutive victories in 2012, after knocking on the door several times as a juvenile. Raconteur would gain the lead in deep stretch repulsing the challenge of Two Seventeen to prevail by 3/4-lengths in a 1-mile and 70 yards allowance race Friday at Aqueduct.

The chestnut colt is a half-brother to stakes winner Katerbug, and was purchased by Dogwood Stable at the 2011 April Keeneland Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale for $240,000 from the consignment of Wavertree Stables, Inc. (Ciaran Dunne), agent. The son of the 1992 Horse-of-the-Year A.P. Indy broke his maiden in his last start on Jan. 6 at Aqueduct. Five-time Eclipse Award winning Trainer Todd Pletcher trains Raconteur. Legacy Stable's Ron Stevens and Brad Stauffer trained Raconteur while he was in Aiken.

Raconteur has 2 wins from 7 starts, has placed second twice and finished third twice, en route to bankrolling $111,800.

JEOG Racing LLC's Scatman only ran out of the money once during his juvenile campaign, finishing the year with a win and a second en route to earning $36,266, breaking his maiden at Keeneland on Oct. 13. The runner-up in the Aiken Trials Coward Trophy won his sophomore campaign debut at Oaklawn Park on Jan. 29, capturing a 6-furlong allowance race by 3 1/2-lengths. The son of multiple Grade 1 winner Scat Daddy is trained by Michael Lauer, and was broken and trained by Legacy Stable's Ron Stevens and Brad Stauffer. Scatman increased his lifetime earnings to $60,566, with his allowance victory in 2012.

Godolphin's graded stakes winner Alpha's next race will be in New York, according to The Blood-Horse. The son of Bernardini has won consecutive stakes races in 2012, winning the Count Fleet Stakes in January and Grade 3 Withers Stakes on Saturday, with both victories coming at Aqueduct. Kiaran McLaughlin trains Alpha, who was broken and trained in Aiken by Tim Jones.

The 2008 Eclipse Award winning Two-Year-Old Male Midshipman's first foal was born on Jan. 26 at Darley's Stonerside division in Paris, Ky., according to The Blood-Horse. Midshipman was broken and trained in Aiken by Tim Jones.