Bella Bellini became the fastest three-year-old trotter in North America so far in 2021 with a 1:53.1 win on Thursday afternoon (April 29) at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
Dexter Dunn kept the Bar Hopping-Bella Dolce filly in the pocket behind Worthy Of Honor early through fractions of :28.1 and :57.4, then angled her out to challenge the leader nearing the 1:25.3 three-quarters. Bella Bellini cleared to the lead before reaching the homestretch and tacked on her own second successive :27.3 quarter to win comfortably by 5-3/4 lengths over the pacesetter for trainer Nifty Norman and owner David McDuffee.
Bella Bellini s 1:53.1 mile broke a seasonal standard for sophomores which had lasted all of 22 minutes, set in the previous race at Philly, when Mister Boinga caught pacesetting favourite Shinkansen to lower his record to 1:53.4. Tim Tetrick handled the Bar Hopping gelding, now 4-of-9 lifetime, for trainer Jill Roland and owner Bernard O’Brien in the richest race of the day, which went
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Racehorses dominate the catalogue, and the Burke Racing Stable offers 12 of them in their strong consignment. Emerald Highlands has seven royally-bred young prospects, and Spring Haven Farm is agent for a dozen racehorses along with a Muscle Hill stallion and a Bar Hopping yearling. Madeline Farms offers January weanlings by Lather Up, McWicked and Downbytheseaside entered in the supplement.
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Per Engblom would enjoy seeing his three-year-old trotter Ethan T Hanover on the road to the Hambletonian, but the trainer is going to let the colt determine his own path for the season.
Ethan T Hanover is the 5-2 morning line favourite in Saturday’s $38,529 elimination of the Dexter Cup at Freehold Raceway. The Dexter Cup is the season’s first Grand Circuit race for three-year-old trotters and features several horses eligible to August’s Hambletonian Stakes, the sport’s premier event for sophomore trotters.
A total of 10 horses entered the Dexter Cup, resulting in Saturday’s single elimination. The top six finishers in the eight-horse elimination will join bye recipients Ambassador Hanover and Sunny Crockett in the May 1 final.
The Sweet Lou sophomore gelding Sweet Angel Boy, going uncovered from last through pouring rain at Harrah’s Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon (April 21), paced his own final half in :54.3 to be an impressive 1:54.3 winner in one of three $11,200 features at the riverside oval.
Driver Tim Tetrick got the youngster underway quickly up the backstretch and rolled to challenge pacesetting Letstrytowgleagain, the sophomore full brother to the immortal Wiggle It Jiggleit. And while the pacesetter held on well as his pedigree might suggest, Sweet Angel Boy was still able to leave him two-and-a-quarter lengths behind at the finish. Sweet Angel Boy, whose lone win at two was a 1:52.4 Keystone Classic victory, showed high potential here for trainer Jim King Jr. and owner Jo Ann Looney-King.