It was a day a lot like yesterday, but even more so; the sky was blue, the sun loomed large, the fields were small. Nine scratches, mostly due to a cough that is moving through the barns, did not help. The crowd was mid-range but, amazingly, the investors found $533,647 worth of propositions they were willing to buy into.

Once again, the track played better for horses on or close to the pace, although it did allow for some closers to win, including one of the deep variety. The track appeared to get a little faster as the day went on, but form held up well with four favorites and two second-choices winning on the eight-race card. Longest priced winner of the day paid $13.30.

As the first was a Maiden Special Weight we will say it was the feature, and there appeared to be some pretty nice two-year-olds in it. After two scratches, five ended up running. One of them was Boundary Bay ($3.30) who won as many had anticipated, but not before a hammer-and-tongs battle down the lane with Take the High Road. The race went in 40.19 over a track that was not surrendering fast times easily.

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