ARCADIA, Calif. (Jan. 4, 2014) – California-bred Cyclometer overcame a slow break for a game win in Saturday’s $88,960 Midnight Lute Stakes at Santa Anita. Cyclometer is by Cyclotron, out of the Eastern Echo mare Moana Loa, was bred by owners Bruce Headley, and Irwin and Andrew Molasky and is trained by Headley. “It was a little eventful leaving the gate, to be honest,” said jockey Mike Smith. “A horse acted up and my horse rocked back a bit so we spotted everyone a jump at the start. I still got away in good order…so I was just hoping I was two jumps better than (pace-setting) Anillo because I had already given him one. “Cyclometer was really on his game today. In the stretch, I could only mess it up, at that point. I just kept hand-riding him, and it was working.” Cyclometer has five wins in 17 starts, earnings of $330,254 and was coming off a second in the Nov. 24 On Trust. Cyclometer ran the six furlongs in 1:08.95 and won by three-quarters of a length at odds of 3-2 in the field of four. For Cyclometer’s pedigree, click http://www.pedigreequery.com/cyclometer.
