OPELOUSAS — Power Jet won the $75,000 Equine Sales Derby at Evangeline Downs on Saturday night.
Jet, rallied from last in the field of 10 horses, to best the 4-5 favorite Fat Clemenza and 2-1 favorite Boston Repo. Jet won the race with a final time of 1:38.96.
Fat Clemenza and Boston Repo were one-two in the field through the strong early fractions of 23.25 seconds for the quarter-mile and 47.20 for the half.
That’s when a pair of longshots (Power Jet and Paynt Battle) surrounded Clemenza. Power Jet rallied in the clear four-wide and surged away from Paynt Battle, who encountered slightly more traffic, to record a 2-1/4 length victory.
Power Jet returned $23.20 to win, $11.20 to place and $4.80 to show. Paynt Battle paid $29.60 to place and $9.60 to show, while Fat Clemenza paid $2.60 to show.
Power Jet. A three-year-old Colt, was bred in Louisiana by Joseph Adcock, owned by William T. Reed, trained by Bret Calhoun and ridden to victory by Chris Rosier.
Live racing at Evangeline Downs will resume Wednesday night with a nine-race program. Post time on Wednesday will be 5:50 p.m.
Photo by Coady Photography