Ontario’s top three-year-old pacing fillies mixed it up at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday, July 23 and Dabarndawgswatchin and Western Wish sent the favourites home empty-handed.
In the first $101,400 Gold division, driver Jody Jamieson had Dabarndawgswatchin on the move from Post 2 as soon as the wings folded and the filly led the field of eight to a :27.2 opening quarter. When Scarlett Hanover swept to the front, Jamieson was content to follow last year’s division champion through a :56 half and a 1:24.1 three-quarters. Turning for home Jamieson gave Dabarndawgswatchin a clear look at the wire and the filly reeled in Scarlett Hanover, with half a length to spare, for a 1:51.3 victory. Aint She Perfect finished third, in spite of hooking wheels late with Scarlett Hanover. Favourite Best Head West was fourth.
Task Force Recommends All Mass Residents Be Added To Organ Donor List, Unless They Opt-Out
wbur.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wbur.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Southwind Frank gelding Whiskey Blu, a $7,000 yearling unraced at two, is now the winningest trotter in North America in 2021 as he recorded his 10th victory of the campaign in one of three $30,000 divisions of a Pennsylvania All-Stars event for sophomore trotting colts Saturday afternoon (May 22) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Dan Charlino guided the Ron Burke-trained Whiskey Blu to the lead just past a :27 opener, and soon had slight favourite Type A charging at him, with Type A clearing to the top only as he approached the half in :55.2. Whiskey Blu sat in the pocket to three-quarters in 1:23.4 and into the stretch, where he moved wide and caught the stubborn Type A by a head in 1:53.2 while taking a new mark for Burke Racing Stable LLC and Weaver Bruscemi LLC along with Kitefield Stable.
Highalator added to his impressive lifetime record at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Saturday afternoon, as he is now 17 for 28 in his career at the mountain oval after a 1:50.1 victory in the Saturday (May 15) pacing feature.
Driver Rick Still did not try to outgun the outside leavers with the winning son of Somebeachsomewhere as they raced to a :26.3 quarter; he left him on the outside and gradually got the top before the :54.4 midway clocking. Second-choice Vettel N came up to challenge the leader before the 1:21.4 three-quarters, but Highlator remained his usual game self to run his lifetime totals to 41 wins in 92 starts and earnings of $654,228 for trainer Jenny Bier, who is co-owner with Joann Dombeck and Midsize Construction Inc.
With the extension of Ontario’s shutdown and the return of racing in the province yet to have a clear date, driver Doug McNair will be taking his tack stateside.
“It just doesn’t look like anything’s going to open up here for about five, six weeks,” Doug McNair said to
Trot Insider. “There were a few guys that told me a few months ago that I should be going down there anyway. As soon as they shut down here, there was lots of talk about heading down there. You can kind of stick it out for two, three weeks. We’ve almost been off for six months out of the last year. It gets to a point where you have to start doing something for yourself financially and mentally.”
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.