Moonlight Train was more like a runaway train in the $46,283 allowance feature race at Remington Park on a special Monday racing card.
Once the 4-year-old filly took charge halfway through the one-mile race for Oklahoma-bred fillies and mares, 3 years old and up, she was almost back in the barn snoozing by the time her competitors finished the race. The daughter of Wilburn, out of the Eurosilver mare The Ice Train left them all in her dust as she drew off to win by 9-1/4 lengths, under jockey Ramon Vazquez. They stopped the timer for the race in 1:39.07 seconds over a fast track. Interior fractions for the race were 24.27 for the quarter mile, 48.29 for the half, and 1:13.53 for three-quarters.
Moonlight Train is owned by M and M Racing of Colleyville, Texas, and trained by Karl Broberg, who leads the nation in wins for 2018, quickly closing in on 500 for the year. He started the day with 487 wins with horses across the country in 2018.
Moonlight Train paid $5.60 to win, $3.40 to place and $2.60 to show. Socks, the runner-up went off at 5-1 odds and third-place finisher Teaspoon was 20-1/2 lengths behind the winner at longshot odds of18-1.
Moonlight Train took down $26,721 for winning and increased her lifetime bankroll to $116,309. It was the fourth time in eight trips over the Remington Park racing surface that Moonlight Train has won. She has five wins from 14 starts lifetime with three seconds and one third. She was bred in Oklahoma by Cowboy Stables LLC of Clinton, Okla. It was the first of two wins on the card for Broberg to put him up to 489 victories for the year.
Broberg leads National Racing Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, who is second in the national standings, beginning the day...



