Northfield, OH — Ferretti wasted no time making the lead in the $100,000 Tom Aldrich President’s Trot at MGM Northfield Park on Saturday (August 9). He made every pole a winning one in a valiant effort.
Big Box Hanover (Luke Hanners), Longshot (Chris Lems), and Ferretti (Matt Kakaley) fired off the wings, but entering the backstretch Big Box Hanover came away with the lead.
Ferretti was not content to sit and he continued to advance on the leaders, parked through a :27:1 first quarter.
Finally clearing rivals, Kakaley got a major second quarter breather arriving at the half in :56.2.
Longshot started to apply pressure first-over entering the clubhouse turn for the final time.
At three-quarters in 1:24.3, Ferretti clung to a short lead over Longshot who continued to grind away on the outside.
Turning for home, Ferretti kicked away from his rivals and won by two lengths in 1:54.2.
“I’ve always liked this horse,” said Matt Kakaley, driver. “He was very good, he just waited for everyone to get close and he raced them.”
Owned by David Rovine Stable LLC of Florida and the CTC Stable of New York, the gelding is trained by Travis Alexander.
It was the seventeenth career victory for the gelding, who pushed his career earnings to $339,840.