by Keith Gisser, for Northfield Park

Northfield, OH — Favored Some Girls Do ($2.60) won an early speed duel with Hi Maintenancechic and led at every call en route to a 1:53.2 victory in the $50,750 first division of the Courageous Lady Pace at Northfield Park on Saturday night (April 30).

The 3-year-old daughter of American Ideal-Village Green posted fractions of :27, :57.1 and 1:25.4 before sprinting to a :27.3 final quarter.

Some Girls Do won for the eighth time in ten starts and pushed her 2011 earnings over $113,000 for owners Burke Racing, Weaver Bruscemi LLC, Frank Baldachino and Earl Smith.

Dave Palone drove Some Girls Do to the 1-3/4 length win.

Despite being parked-out past the opening :26.3 quarter-mile mark, favored I Kill Time ($3.60) won the second $50,750 division of the Courageous Lady Pace, holding off Stash The Cash to win by 1-3/4 lengths in 1:54.1. Real Joy finished third.

Robin Schadt trains the winner for Odds On Racing of Illinois. The win, in her seasonal debut, was a lifetime best for I Kill Time, who has now earned just shy of $169,000 in her career.

Kurt Sugg drove the winner, his fifth victory of the night.