BY BROCK SHERIDAN
DECEMBER 27, 1997—Making his 14th start of the year, Donald Murray’s Brisco Jack outlasted a three-horse confrontation with Great Allegiance and Triple Great to get control in deep stretch and win the $27,450 Pelican Stakes by three-and-a-quarter of a length. With Ricardo Lopez in the irons, the 3-year-old Florida-bred son of Solar Jack won his second stakes victory of 1997 and improved his record to five wins, three seconds and two thirds for the year.
The six-furlong test started with four of the seven 3-year-olds and older racing heads apart into the turn after a quarter-mile in :23.40. Brisco Jack had the inside track around the turn with Great Allegiance between horses and Triple Great on the outside before Brisco Jack separated in deep stretch to finish in 1:12.30 on the muddy track.
Trained by Raymond Tamargo, Brisco Jack had won four straight races at Detroit Race Course earlier in 1997, starting on July 4 with the first of three allowance victories, then culminating on Sept. 16 with a three-quarters of a lengths tally in the $27,500 Piston Handicap.
Brisco Jack would race 15 more times through Jan. 9, 2001, winning the Pelican Stakes again in January of 1999. He retired with nine wins, six seconds and two thirds with earnings of $156,705 from 36 starts.
He was out of Made in Tiwan, by Polar Night and was bred in Florida by Carol J. Mobley and Tina N. Teegarden.
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