Muscles For Life, the brilliant seven-year-old son of Muscle Mass, scored a hard-earned 1:54.2 win for Wally Hennessey in Pompano Park’s $11,500 Open Handicap Trot on Monday night (Dec. 21), holding the fast-closing Explosivebreakaway (Tom Jackson) and The Lionking AS (Kevin Wallis) at bay at the line in 1:54.2.
The winning margin was a half length, earning Muscles For Life his third win in four fall starts this semester in South Florida.
Sooo Handsome finished fourth, and Bucketlist Hanover picked up the final award in the field of eight.
Muscles For Life was forced to draw one of the two outside posts in this field, and Hennessey was forced to change strategy as there was plenty of speed off the wings, especially from BJ Lorado, who zipped an opening panel in :26.3 and half in :55.4. The Lionking AS tracked in the garden spot, Sooo Handsome third, and Muscles for Life who left from post seven found a spot in fourth around the opening turn.