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Skip To My Lou and Born To Thrive shared the limelight at Pompano Park on Monday (Jan. 18) at Pompano Park, taking top honours in their respective $11,500 Open Handicap events.
Skip To My Lou, confidently handled by owner-trainer Joe Chindano Jr., conquered seven worthy rivals by grinding away first-up from turn two all the way home to hit the wire in 1:50.4 a new lifetime mark. His winning margin was 1-3/4 lengths over Kinnder Jackson (Mike Simons), who closed fastest of all to finish second. Real Peace (David Miller), who sawed through panels of :26.2, :55.2 and 1:23.2, finished third while Southwind Amazon hit the wire fourth and Bell I No picked up the nickel in the classy octet.
Shirley Anne Nelson, 88, of Truro, Nova Scotia, passed Jan. 11, 2021, at Cedarstone Enhanced Care, Truro.
She was born in Linden, Nova Scotia, and grew up in Truro. She was the daughter of the late Burley and Annie (McFadden) Works, and a sister to Hazel Murray (Vernon) and Frank Works (Marion).
She loved to talk about her childhood and especially her times in Linden and Pointe de Chene, New Brunswick. She loved her visits with all her family living in those areas.
She graduated from The Business College in Truro, went on to marry her first love, Gerald (Gerry) Nelson, and later had two beautiful children, Debbie and Stanley. She stayed home to raise her children and went back to work when they were almost teenagers. She spent many years as the insurance adjuster at The Wally Keddy Real Estate Company.
With the Super Hi-5 Jackpot approaching $115,000 at Pompano Park, Director of Racing Gabe Prewitt has announced a mandatory payout for Tuesday (Jan. 19). We have had several inquiries as to when the jackpot would grow to a point where we would consider a mandatory payout and that time has come, said Prewitt.
Normally, the jackpot is paid when there is one lone winning ticket with the first five finishers in order, however, with the Super Hi-5 Jackpot pool expected to be several hundred thousand dollars, the mandatory payout lifts that restriction and there is no limit to the number of winning tickets one might have.
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While Cult Icon took top honours in Pompano Park s Open Handicap Pace for mares on Tuesday night (Jan. 12), most of the scuttlebutt came in the very next race as stablemates Happy Heart and Glenferrie Blade A dead-heated in their event with two Hall of Fame drivers both with over 10,000 career wins in their respective sulkies.
Happy Heart, handled by Wally Hennessey, and Glenferrie Blade A, with David Miller in her sulky, hit the wire with no separation. Both mares are trained by Melissa Beckwith, with Happy Heart owned by Thomas McTygue and Glenferrie Blade A owned by Mark Beckwith.