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Dorothys Legacy powered to the point before the quarter and rolled home without a serious challenge in a career-best 1:52.2 in Thursday’s co-feature at The Meadows, a $10,300 filly & mare conditioned pace.
Once on the lead for Tony Hall, the five-year-old daughter of Art Major-Put On A Display easily rebuffed the first-up challenge of her stablemate, Circle The Page, and drew off late, defeating early leader Amelias Courage A by 1-1/4 lengths. Windsun Juno completed the ticket.
John Sullivan trains Dorothys Legacy, who lifted her lifetime bankroll to $110,282, for Greg Usner.
Speaking of lifetime marks, D P Rocket matched her best clocking of 1:55.1 in the companion feature, a $10,300 conditioned trot, widening late to down Tamar by 2-1/4 lengths, with Roundtown Rocker third.
All Day Sunshine wrested the early lead from Amelias Courage A, then thwarted her late challenge to capture Thursday’s (May 6) feature at The Meadows, a $10,500 fillies and mares conditioned pace.
All Day Sunshine easily repelled the first-over bid of Dorothys Legacy, but Amelias Courage A had the entire Lightning Lane to pick her up. The four-year-old daughter of Sunshine Beach and Mustang Kensley responded to the urging of Mike Wilder and held off Amelias Courage A by a neck in 1:51.4, a tick off her lifetime mark. The game Dorothys Legacy earned show.
Paul Corey trains All Day Sunshine, who triumphed for the fifth time this year and lifted her lifetime bankroll to $189,370, for Kenneth Ashba.
Hurrikane Lori Ann slipped off the cones in the lane and roared wide past the leaders to spring a 9-1 upset in Wednesday’s (April 28) feature at The Meadows: a $10,500 Filly & Mare Conditioned Pace.
Hurrikane Lori Ann sat fourth for most of the mile but appeared to be pinned in late. When Tony Hall angled her to the center of the track, the five-year-old daughter of Lis Mara-Luxury Goods zipped past All Day Sunshine and defeated her by a widening margin in a career-best 1:51.4. The first-over Dorothys Legacy finished third.
Samantha Blystone trains the winner, who extended her career bankroll to $132,004, for J.R. Ryan and Collin Ryan.
Dorothys Legacy needed every bit of stretch to do it, but she finally put Morning Shadow away to capture Friday’s feature at The Meadows, a $9,100 Filly & Mare Conditioned Pace.
Morning Shadow set up the stretch duel when she pocketed Dorothys Legacy past the quarter. But when Tony Hall moved the five-year-old daughter of Art Major-Put On A Display wide in the lane, she had enough to down Morning Shadow by three parts of a length in 1:54.2. Marvalous Song finished third. John Sullivan trains Dorothys Legacy for Greg Usner.
Hall collected four wins and Dave Palone three on the 13-race card.