Challenge


Express Your Desire Draws Post 3 for John Deere Ajax Juvenile Challenge
Fastest qualifier Express Your Desire will return in Sunday's $26,550 John Deere Ajax Juvenile Challenge Stakes at Ajax Downs.

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Express Your Desire Draws Post 3 for John Deere Ajax Juvenile Challenge

By MICHAEL CUSORTELLI

AJAX, ONTARIO, CANADA—JULY 8, 2017—Express Your Desire, a homebred son of Desirio and the fastest qualifier, drew post 3 for Sunday’s 350-yard, $26,550 John Deere Ajax Juvenile Challenge Stakes at Ajax Downs.

Express Your Desire made his season debut with a one-length victory in the second of two trials on June 18. The gelding will be ridden by Neil Husbands for owners Carol Robertson and Jaime Robertson and trainer Bryn Robertson.

The winner of this race will earn a starting berth in the October 14, $130,000 John Deere Juvenile Challenge Championship (G2) at Prairie Meadows. The complete lineup, in post position order including jockey assignments and morning-line odds--

  1. Lethal Pyc (Brian Bell), 12-1
  2. Carneros (Rene Gutierrez), 8-1
  3. Express Your Desire (Neil Husbands), 7-2
  4. Miss Racy Eagle (Ed Walton), 8-1
  5. Had To Be Ivory (Tony Phillips), 4-1
  6. Diane Dynamite (Rene Gutierrez), 3-1
  7. Azoomin Fury (Ramiro S. Castillo), 15-1
  8. Silky Senator (Ramiro S. Castillo), 6-1
  9. Island Vodka (Berkley Packer), 10-1
  10. Zoomn Blue (Julian Serrano), 10-1.

All Ajax Downs races can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.