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Lexi B survived a demanding first quarter and a pair of late challenges to score in Thursday’s (April 11) Margaret Provost Memorial Trot at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Ciao Time took the other $16,892 opening-leg split in the series for three-year-old fillies that honours the memory of longtime Standardbred owner Margaret Provost. ....
The 2021 Pennsylvania Fair Circuit got underway with a roar at the Big Butler Fair in Butler, Pa., as the all-age track trotting record of 2:03, set by Dauphin Hanover 27 years ago, was reduced to 2:01.1. First to lay waste to the record books on Wednesday (June 30), when the three-year-olds raced, was Killer Instinct, who won his Sire Stakes division for driver Brian Zendt, trainer Bob Rougeaux III, and the partnership of Brocious Racing Stable Inc. and Lone Wolf Stable. The Southwind Frank gelding won nine times as a two-year-old, set a divisional track record at Bloomsburg, and recently went wire-to-wire at The Meadows in 1:55.3. ....