One of the most familiar pacers on the Running Aces/Cal Expo circuit over the past several years, Pancetta will take his final career bow after race five on Tuesday night, Sept. 12 at Running Aces.
The $12,500 Lloyd Arnold Pace, headed by the streaking Officer Jim, and a $25,000 California Sire Stakes for the three-year-old males, featuring Polar Storm, are the main attractions on Friday night’s Cal Expo program.
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The $10,000 Kirk Breed Pace, featuring a very contentious cast of pacing fillies and mares, and a pair of California Sire Stakes for the distaff set highlight Saturday evening’s (April 17) Cal-Expo action.
Watch and Wager LLC will present 12 races, and things will get started at 5:54 p.m. PT. The Kirk Breed will go as the eighth race, the $15,000 California Sire Stakes for sophomore fillies is set as the third event, and the $7,000 Sire Stakes for four-year-old mares goes as the sixth contest.
Delightfully Wild, a 9-1 upsetter in last week’s Bill Vallandingham Memorial, looks to add to her strong resume at what figures to be shorter odds in the Kirk Breed as she leaves from the rail slot in a field of seven.
An Open Trot headed by Silverhill Volo, a Distaff Open Pace featuring Velocity McSweets and Delightfully Wild and a California Sire Stakes for the three-year-old pacing fillies are the main attractions on Saturday night’s Cal Expo program.
There will be 13 races presented under the Watch and Wager LLC banner with first post set for 4:50 p.m.
Silverhill Volo is a 10-year-old son of Muscle Hill who is owned, trained and driven by Chip Lackey. He comes into this assignment with 29 wins from his 141 starts, $174,000 in his bank account and a 1:55.1 lifetime standard.
The veteran sidewheeler rattled off five straight victories to begin this meet, including the December 12 Joe Lighthill, then suffered his first defeat at this stand when he was parked the mile and had to settle for second behind Pridecrest on January 24.