Two series championships were up for grabs Thursday (March 23) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, and the burning question of the day was: could Heist and Inside Express possibly be as dominant in the finals as they were in the two preliminary legs?
It was a different kind of trip, but Inside Express was dominant again, winning her second straight in Thursday’s (March 16) $11,000 second leg of the Mary Wohlmuth Memorial for three- and four-year-old filly and mare trotters at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
He didn’t race as a freshman, but the 3-year-old Whiskey Blu has been making up for lost time ever since. On Thursday (March 11) at The Meadows, he won his sixth race in as many career starts by blowing away the field in a division of the Dale McConnell Memorial Trot.
The Great PG took the other $10,000 second-leg split in the series for three-year-old trotting colt and geldings.
Dan Charlino didn’t rush Whiskey Blu, allowing him to settle third before making the point with a quarter-pole move. The Southwind Frank-Kendall Blue gelding cruised home in 1:56.2 over a “good” surface, six-and-a-half lengths better than Full Review, with Conrad J third.