First half of the daily double went to All About Lynx (
Southwind Lynx-All About Tonight) and driver Montrell Teague in a repeat of last week. Time for the mile was 153.4. Trained by Clyde Francis and owned and bred by George Teague, Jr.,Inc. and K&R Racing LLC. Second was Bookin followed by Undercovershamrock.
Division two was won by Harrington final winner, Apple Valley Art (
Artzina-Shake Away) in a new lifetime record of 1:52.4 for meet leading driver, Tim Tetrick and meet leading trainer, Jim King, Jr. Owned and bred by Jim’s wife, Jo Ann Looney-King. Second was Elite Retreat followed by Leonard’s Legacy.
Apple Valley Art took a new lifetime mark of 1:52.4 and claimed top honours in the second preliminary round of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Thursday at Dover Downs.
The winner of the Harrington DSBF series earlier in the season, Apple Valley Art ($4.20) scored decisively in the second of two $20,000 divisions. Tim Tetrick brushed Apple Valley Art to the lead with a lap to go, and the pair repelled a first-over challenge from eventual third-place finisher Leonards Legacy before evading a three-wide push from runner-up Elite Retreat by 1-1/2 lengths. Jim King, Jr. trains the son of Artzina and Shake Away for owner-breeder Jo Ann Looney-King.