Friday, July 27 2012

CURRENCY SWAP RETURNS TO SPA FAVORED IN G2 AMSTERDAM

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Nearly a year ago, trainer Terri Pompay showed up in the Saratoga Race Course paddock with a big, flashy son of an unproven sire named High Cotton and minutes later watched him run away from a field of maidens by six lengths.

The victory turned out just to be a warm-up as that flashy bay, Currency Swap, returned a month later to overhaul a runaway Trinniberg in the final strides to win the Grade 1 Three Chimneys Hopeful on the closing day of the meet.