Jacks Shadow N successfully avenged last week s defeat to Whos Better at Harrah s Philadelphia with a 1:50.3 score in Sunday (April 18) afternoon s featured $14,400 top-level conditioned pace at the riverside racetrack.
After mid-race traffic trouble left Jacks Shadow N an insurmountable task last week, driver Tim Tetrick opted to send the seven-year-old Shadow Play gelding immediately to the lead at race s outset, clearing Whos Better and Dexter Dunn through a :26.3 quarter. After rating a soft :29.3 second sectional, Jacks Shadow N was forced to accelerate up the backstretch when faced with mild first-over pressure from Dealers Table. Jacks Shadow easily turned aside his outside rival past three-quarters in 1:23.3, and kept Whos Better three-quarters of a length at bay at the winning post. Precision Bluechip finished third, another four lengths behind.
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Cash N Chips alertly followed cover, then roared wide through the stretch to score in her divisional prelim for the Margaret Provost Memorial Trot at The Meadows on Thursday (April 1).
Night Flyer K took the other $12,500 opening-leg division in the series for three-year-old trotting fillies. The event honours the memory of longtime owner/breeder Margaret Provost.
Cash N Chips was fifth when Hunter Myers moved her off the cones to follow the first-up Kommin On Strong. The daughter of Cash Hall-Sugar N Chips was by far the strongest in the lane, notching the win her second straight in 1:58.2 over a “good” surface.
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