Trained by Rory Miller<\/a> for owner and breeder Flying Finish Farm Inc.<\/a>, Lets Go Koko won three straight from April through June including the $75,000 Powder Break<\/a> going a mile on the grass at Gulfstream on May 31. She book-ended that victory with a length-and-a-quarter score in a second condition, $32,000 optional claiming<\/a> going a mile on the grass at Tampa Bay Downs on April 18 and with a half-length tally over a mile-and-70-yards on synthetic in an off-the-turf $25,000 starter allowance, optional claiming<\/a> on June 26 at Gulfstream.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The 4-year-old daughter of Ocala Stud\u2019s Adios Charlie<\/a> started the year winning a second condition, $32,000 optional claiming<\/a> going a mile on the grass at Tampa Bay Downs on March 1 but looks to avenge a loss in her last race. On Aug. 16 in the $70,000 Frolic\u2019s Revenge overnight handicap going a mile on the Gulfstream turf, Lets Go Koko faded to fourth behind winner Starship Impulsive, the 9-5 morning line favorite in the Ginger Punch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Lets Go Koko is out of Vino de Pago<\/a>, by With Distinction and has earned $284,290 from nine wins, four seconds and four thirds in 24 starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n Edwin Gonzalez<\/a> will ride from post three and they are 10-1 on the morning line.<\/p>\n Charlie\u2019s Wish won last year\u2019s Ginger Punch<\/a>, moved off the turf to a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the all-weather course. However, her two other career stakes victories came on grass in the $100,000 Azalea<\/a> going seven furlongs at Gulfstream Park in 2023 and in the $110,000 Pleasant Acres Distaff Turf<\/a> at a mile-and-a-sixteenth on Florida Cup Day at Tampa Bay Downs in March of last year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The 5-year-old Charlie\u2019s Wish is trained by David Fawkes<\/a> for Royalight Racing LLC<\/a> and she has won five of 23 career races with seven seconds and five thirds while banking a field-high $419,149. She is by Double Diamond Farm stallion First Dude<\/a> out of Superior Sarah, by Werblin and was bred in Florida by Three Gin Guys Stable<\/a>.<\/p>\n Charlie\u2019s Wish will carry 120 pounds including jockey Miquel Vasquez<\/a> from post four. They are 3-1 on the morning line.<\/p>\n Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.<\/a> has entered Florida-bred Lady Cha Cha and Leo Toro.<\/p>\n Lady Cha Cha was fourth in the Powder Break and in one start since, was fifth behind winner Oshala, another Ginger Punch entrant, in a first level, $25,000 optional claiming going a mile-and-70-yards on the Gulfstream synthetic on July 12.<\/p>\n Lady Cha Cha is 7-2 on the morning line and has been assigned to carry 118 pounds. She is by Vino Rosso out of Peisinoe<\/a>, by Yes It\u2019s True and was bred in Florida by English Range Farm<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Owned by Golden Kernel Racing Stable<\/a>, Lady Cha Cha has three wins<\/a>, a second and two thirds with earnings of $124,763.<\/p>\n Edgard Zayas<\/a> will guide Lady Cha Cha from post five.<\/p>\n Burnaway makes her first start after being claimed by trainer Scott Acker<\/a> for $20,000 out of a second-place finished to Ginger Punch rival Show Off on Sept. 5. Now owned by Robert Proulx<\/a>, that was the fourth consecutive race in which Burnaway was taken through the claim box going back to an eight-and-three-quarters-lengths victory at the $12,500 claiming level<\/a> at Gulfstream in May.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Burnaway is by Big Drama<\/a> out of Bold Char<\/a>, by General Quarters and was bred by the late Harold L. Queen<\/a>. She has three wins in 25 career starts with 10 seconds and three thirds and earnings of $195,020.<\/p>\n Burnaway will break from post one under 115 pounds including jockey Edgar Perez<\/a>. They are 30-1 on the morning line.<\/p>\n Completing the field are Crafty Collector with Samuel Marin<\/a> taking the riding assignment, Rajiv Maragh<\/a> rides Oshala, Starship Agenda with jockey Luca Panici<\/a>, Joe Bravo<\/a> will guide Show Off, Leo Toro will have Micah Husbands<\/a> up and Leonel Reyes<\/a> takes the call on 9-5 morning line favorite Starship Impulsive.<\/p>\n Return to the September 19 issue of\u00a0Wire to Wire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY BROCK SHERIDAN Florida-bred Lets Go Koko, a winner of three of her last four races and four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-147969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/47728-JEC-Rodeo-Ad_Sept-2025_1200px-600x400.png\")