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The barn of Shane and Lauren Tritton sent two fresh-to-the-US horses to the track for the Saturday (Jan. 21) qualifying session at The Meadowlands to a pair of strong miles.
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“I know she can’t keep doing what she’s doing,” Tritton said.
That’s about the only negative he can muster, and it makes sense considering she has won 89 per cent of her North American starts. And, he quickly added, “But as long as she can keep racing well, then I’m sure she’s going to be thereabouts.”
The seven-year-old pacing mare was one of 20-odd horses Tritton and wife Lauren brought to their farm in Pine Bush, N.Y., when they relocated from Down Under last March. She was the quickest of them all to acclimate to American racing, and the result has been eight wins in nine U.S. starts entering Thursday’s (Feb. 11) $30,000 Fillies and Mares Open Handicap at Yonkers.