t after the Chicagoland race opened the 2015 Chase.Its designed for chaos, Johnson said. This format creates that. ... Honestly, just

Smack Smacks first win in eight starts this year also was the biggest victory of his career, a narrow decision over Shotgun Kowboy in an oddly run edition of the Grade 3, $300,000 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap on Saturday afternoon.On paper, Smack Smack looked too slow and insufficiently accomplished to win, but that is why he paid $34.20. There was one thing Smack Smack had going for him, if you stared long enough at his past performance lines, and that was the races nine-furlong distance: Smack Smack entered the Cornhusker with two wins and a third from four races at 1-1/8 miles, and he needed every foot of it to prevail.The Cornhusker unfolded at a very modest tempo, with nearly the entire field stacked across the track a half-furlong from the first turn. Shotgun Kowboy came through along the inside to grab the lead, going his first quarter-mile in 23.64 seconds and a half in a mild 48.78 as favorite Smaverlous pressed two paths off the fence and well-backed Cyrus Alexander raced three wide. The pace barely quickened through six furlongs in 1:13.35, and midway around the turn, Smaverlous pushed to the front and took a clear lead, with Shotgun Kowboy apparently fading on the fence.At the quarter pole, it briefly looked like a showdown between SMaverlous and Cyrus Alexander, but Cyrus Alexander suddenly went flat and backed up between horses, while SMaverlous, rather than pull away, began to lose his lead. Rivals swarmed inside and out, and it was Smack Smack on the far outside going slightly better than Shotgun Kowboy, who had plugged and plugged along the inside and nearly got back up to win.Smack Smack, racing mid-pack until making his move in the homestretch under Shane Laviolette, won by a neck, with Shotgun Kowboy just a head better than 14-1 shot Pain and Misery, who had rallied from eighth to get into the thick of things at the stretch call. Smaverlous checked in fourth, followed by Code West, Hawaakom, Cyrus Alexander, Domains Rap, and Eton Ridge. Winning time for the 1-1/8 miles on a fast track was 1:50.28.Don Von Hemel trains Smack Smack for his owner and breeder, Dream Walkin Farms. Smack Smack, fourth in the local Cornhusker prep last out, is a 5-year-old gelding by Closing Argument and out the Victory Gallop mare, Smack Madam. He ran his record to 9-3-7 from 26 starts with career earnings of nearly $750,000.Candip captures Iowa SprintCandip bounced back from a poor race last out at Churchill Downs to win the $100,000 Iowa Sprint.Stalking and pressing on the outside after breaking from post 8, Candip took the lead from Dream Saturday at the stretch call and beat that rival by three-quarters of a length, with Wilbo just a nose farther back in third.The 5-year-old Candip, claimed for $32,000 in May 2015 by his current connections, owner K Town Partners and trainer Mike Tomlinson, hit peak form over the winter at Gulfstream Park, when he won a high-end allowance race and finished a close second to the good sprinter X Y Jet in the Gulfstream Park Sprint.But returning from a layoff May 19 in a Churchill allowance race, Candip appeared to have reverted to a lesser version of himself, finishing a distant sixth after a wide trip. That race, it now seems, merely gave Candip fuel for his return to stakes competition, as he traveled forwardly from the start under Terry Thompson, always racing on the bridle while relaxed.I was able to watch and see how it set up down on the inside, Thompson said. I was able to sit to the quarter pole and when I called on him he ran big down the lane.Dream Saturday set a strong pace of 22.11 and 44.60 seconds, and held firm to the finish, but he did not have quite enough left to contain the winner, who ran six furlongs on a fast track in 1:08.98. W.B. Smudge got a pocket trip and loomed past the quarter pole, but had no late zip and finished a well-beaten fourth as the second choice, just edging tepid favorite Storm Power.Candip ($10.60), a gelding, is by Candy Ride out of the Storm Cat mare Indefinable, and was bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm. His career record now stands at 22-7-4-2.Carson Wentz Womens Jersey . 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Today, we look back at Boston Strong - a citys recovery from tragedy.DEARBORN, Mich. -- Joey Logano couldnt have had a bigger smile on his face Wednesday as he drove a restored 1914 Model T around the Ford Motor Company grounds.He joked about racing the train that transported visitors. He took the turns carefully to prevent a rollover. He seemed like a guy without a care in the world, cracking up with every push of the pedal even if max speed was 30 miles an hour.But come Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway, he will fire up for a ride much more bumpy and one that could generate much fewer smiles at close to 200 miles an hour. He enters the Chase for the Sprint Cup, which for the third consecutive year will feature an elimination-style format.If anyone knows just how crazy and out of control the Chase can get, its the 26-year-old Logano. Last year, Logano wrecked Matt Kenseth while going for the win at Kansas Speedway even though Logano already had won a week earlier and was guaranteed a spot in the semifinal round.A few weeks later with Kenseth not having advanced, a nine-laps-down Kenseth -- angry at Logano teammate Brad Keselowski -- pile-drove Logano into the Martinsville Speedway wall. Kenseth was suspended for two races. Logano didnt advance to the final round.NASCAR chairman Brian France created the rules for the Chase, in some ways, to have those types of moments, stirring emotions. The first two years of the elimination style formats have seen fights outside the car (Kenseth-Keselowski, Jeff Gordon-Keselowski to name a couple) as well as that on-track drama.Hopefully Im done with that [drama], Kenseth said last month when talking about the Chase. Hopefully it will be just nice and calm. Everybody is happy.Yeah, right. The rules werent designed for Kenseths happiness.Logano was happy Wednesday. Whether that happiness stays or not, he cant predict. But he knows in a format in which four drivers are eliminated every three races -- race-winners of each round and those best in points advance -- that the formula heightens emotions and intensity.Some people have a pretty uneventful 10 races, Logano said. Some people have an over-eventful 10 races. Ive been on both sides of that.If I look at two years ago when we got to Homestead [Florida], it was very uneventful, we won one race throughout the Chase, we kind of did our thing, we were under the radar and we found ourselves racing for a championship. Last year, we won three races and found ourselves in the middle of everything and we didnt get to Homestead.While he said he learns something every day from his experiences and hopes to put that into use, Logano is more focused on this year than thinking about what went right or wrong a year ago.ddddddddddddhen a driver puts on a race helmet, the idea is to win the trophy.You have to do what you have to do for your team and then you worry about the repercussions later, 2014 Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick said. Obviously with Joey and Matt last year and the repercussions, probably Joey having the best car and ending up not winning the championship, there is a lot of things to balance.But when youre in the car and in competition and kind of in that mode of really going after it, its hard to think about those things.Logano has long been on record that he has no regrets. His job remains to win races.Its a race, Logano said. Its not just one race. Its 10 races. A lot of times, you dont have time to think about repercussions or anything. You go out there knowing the job at hand and you just get the job done.We all sign up for a job. Its my job to make it happen.Did Logano think he got the job done last year?I think so, Logano said. Hey, we raced hard. We won races. We were fast. We learned a lot. Thats success. We learned about a lot of things -- we learned a lot about our race team and [are] proud of that.I feel like were stronger this year because of it.Kenseth and Logano werent alone in their drama last year in the Chase. Harvick shoved Jimmie Johnson with a closed fist after the Chicagoland race opened the 2015 Chase.Its designed for chaos, Johnson said. This format creates that. ... Honestly, just the way we race has changed so much over the years from the Mark Martin ways of pointing somebody by and it will come back to you later in the race.You never do that now. You race the fire out of the guy next [to] you. It just is how it is. The culture is changing. The mindset is changing.That culture, Kenseth said, doesnt necessarily come with the Chase. He said he sees it during the regular season.I dont feel like anybody is going to dump you and wreck you on purpose for a win necessarily because it is going to advance them to the next round if theres still a couple of rounds left unless its the same guy who would do it [in August] at Bristol, Kenseth said.I dont know that it is any different. Maybe it is. Maybe Im na?ve.So what happens over the next 10 weeks? Any chance of it being calm?Anything is possible, Keselowski said. Id have to see it first. I dont think its made to be calm. ' ' '