Lisa's Booby Trap back at Finger Lakes

One of racing’s best feel-good stories of 2010 took place last summer when owner-trainer Tim Snyder, down on his luck and without a horse to call his own, spent his last $2,000 to buy a filly who was blind in one eye and burdened by a club foot and bad shoulder. It became a rags-to-riches saga when Lisa’s Booby Trap – named for Snyder’s late wife and a gentleman’s club in Florida – reeled off four straight victories to begin her career, capped by a six-length score in the restricted Loudonville for New York-breds at Saratoga.

The storybook season went sour, however, when Lisa’s Booby Trap finished last of 10 trying turf at Saratoga, and she faded from view after finishing third of five as an odds-on favorite in an allowance back at her home track, Finger Lakes, in western New York.

Chapter 2 could begin on Tuesday when Lisa’s Booby Trap returns from an eight-month layoff to make her 4-year-old debut in the featured eighth race at Finger Lakes, a six-furlong money allowance that is also open to $30,000 claimers.