A world record performance for Lady Shadow in Golden Girls
July 16, 2016,by Ken Weingartner, Harness Racing Communications
East Rutherford, NJ — Roughly an hour after watching 5-year-old stallion Always B Miki establish the world record for pacing the distance of 1-1/8 miles, 5-year-old mare Lady Shadow went out and lowered the mark by three-fifths of a second with a 2:00.3 victory in Saturday’s (July 16) $229,900 Golden Girls for older female pacers at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
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Lady Shadow won the Golden Girls in a world record time of 2:00.3 for the 1-1/8 mile distance.
Frost Damage Blues led the field to the opening quarter-mile in :24.4 before yielding the front to Lady Shadow and driver Yannick Gingras. Lady Shadow remained on top from there, with fractions of :53, 1:20.4, and 1:47 to the mile. The time of 1:47 for one mile equaled the record for the fastest-ever mile by a female pacer, set by Shebestingin in 2013.
Solar Sister made a late charge in the stretch, but finished four lengths behind Lady Shadow. Inittowinafortune was third.
Always B Miki set the short-lived world record of 2:01.1 for 1-1/8 miles in winning the William R. Haughton Memorial for older male pacers three races prior to the Golden Girls.
“24.4? Yeah, that’s a first,” Gingras said. “I didn’t know until after the race how fast we were actually going in the first quarter. I knew it was fast but I was going to take my time to get there.
“If I knew it was going to be 1:47 flat (to the mile) I might have let her go a little bit down the stretch. I knew I had a big lead so I wasn’t chasing her. I just kind of let her do it on her own. That would have been cool, (1):46.4 or something.”
Ron Adams trains Lady Shadow, who has won five of 11 races this year. She has won 21 of 46 career races and pushed her lifetime purses to $1.05 million with the triumph in the Golden Girls.
Lady Shadow (Shadow Play-Lady Camella) is owned by David Kryway, Carl Atley, Ed Gold, and BFJ Stable. She paid $3.40 to win.
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