$125,000 Bob Benoit Cal Cup Juvenile Preview

ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 24, 2005) -- Direct Connect and Irish Bar both won stakes at the Fairplex Park meet and Direct Connect also won the Cavonnier Stakes at Oak Tree.

Direct Connect (General Meeting-Mama Mama, by Bonus Money) won the Barretts Juvenile at Fairplex and could give trainer Omar Aldabbagh and trainer Paul Aguirre back-to-back Cal Cup Juvenile winners. They won last year with Texcess.

Irish Bar (Bartok-Merry Krisoke, by Roanoke) won Fairplex’s Gateway to Glory Stakes.
Other possible Cal Cup Juvenile starters include Moonlite Romance (Game Plan-Candles n Moonlite-by Knight in Savannah), the runner-up in both Del Mar’s I’m Smokin and Oak Tree’s Cavonnier; and Northern California Yearling Sale graduate Western Sovereign (Western Fame-Starlet Angelita, by Mister Jolie), a stakes-winner at Fresno.
-- Larry Bortstein

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