It took four tries for new trainer Symon Spicer to get the International Moni filly Uno Mas Blue Chip to qualify, but after three breaks and then finally staying flat, the sophomore was ready for her sophomore debut, taking the $12,600 trotting feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia Wednesday (May 31) afternoon in a lifetime best of 1:54.3.
Bond made her first career stakes victory look easy Friday (Aug. 12) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, jogging to a 3-1/2-length triumph in a $147,668 Pennsylvania Sires Stakes. Uno Mas Blue Chip took the other division in the event, known as the Delmonica Hanover, for freshman filly trotters.
Austral Hanover, whose connections feared that he would never make it as a racehorse, took another step forward in his development Friday when he captured a division of a $40,000 Arden Downs Grand Circuit stakes at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.