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Done Well seized the lead with a swift 26.3 opening panel in the slop, and he found the wire just in time to capture Friday’s $16,000 Open Handicap Pace at The Meadows.
With a two-length lead turning for home, Done Well appeared to have the race in hand. But with the formidable Macadoodledoo bearing down, the six-year-old Well Said-Dagnabit Hanover gelding had to dig in for Dave Palone to hold off Macadoodledoo by a half-length margin in 1:51.2. Prince Of Tides completed the ticket.
Ron Burke trains the winner, who lifted his lifetime bankroll to $565,283, for Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi LLC, J&T Silva-Purnel & Libby and Wingfield Brothers LLC.
The up-and-coming younger performers attracted the Friday spotlight at Harrah’s Philadelphia, ahead of two consecutive cards with Pennsylvania Sire Stakes races for two-year-olds, with three $12,600 events for the various classifications.
The Somebeachsomewhere sophomore colt Literl Lad Hanover, a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes winner earlier this year, got back on the winning track with a lifetime mark of 1:50.4 going wire-to-wire against the pacing males. Driver George Napolitano, Jr. put the three-year-old quickly on the lead and hung up splits of :27.1, :55.3, and 1:22.3 while boosting his lifetime earnings to $172,611 for the meet’s leading trainer, Ron Burke, and the partnership of Burke Racing Stable LLC and Weaver Bruscemi LLC, J&T Silva- Purnel & Libby, and Wingfield Five LLC.
Two $50,000 divisions of Ohio Sires Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies were featured at Scioto Downs on a humid Friday night.
Dragons Lucky Lady proved that she was just that as she cruised to a 1:52.2 clocking in the first split for driver Tyler Smith and trainer Eddie Foulk.
The daughter of Dragon Again notched her seasonal fourth victory from nine starts, upping her 2021 earnings to $58,335 for owners L&L Stables of Springfield, Ohio and William A Hartt, of Carmel, Maine. Leaving the gate as the 4-5 favourite, Dragons Lucky Lady prevailed easily over Babs Jansen (Kayne Kauffman), with She Knows It All (Ronnie Wrenn, Jr.) garnering third-place honours.
Jeffery P got a second-quarter breather and needed every bit of it, as he was forced to dig in late to preserve his fourth straight victory in Thursday’s $16,000 Open Handicap Trot at The Meadows.
After a swift :27.2 opening panel, Dave Palone gave Jeffery P a leisurely 30 second quarter. Even so, he was unable to open any distance on the field and was all out to down Rising MVP, who was charging through the Lightning Lane, by three-quarters of a length in 1:54.2. The first-over Icanflylikeanangel was a well-meant third.
Ron Burke trains Jeffery P, a six-year-old Full Count-Betty Jean gelding who lifted his lifetime bankroll to $283,503, for Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi LLC and Phillip Collura.