Fort Washington, MD — Following his 1:53.1 first-round victory last week, Lucky Lilly Belle Stable’s Brooksforreal extended his win streak to 11 with a 1:54.2 score in his $10,000 second-round Maryland Sire Stakes preliminary division on Wednesday (May 7) at Rosecroft Raceway.
Jared Moyer rated fractions of :27.4, :57.2 and 1:26.2 with the 3-year-old Rusty’s For Real-Brooks Range gelding before using a :28 sprint home to keep pocket rival Hungry Cougar (Jonathan Roberts) at bay by a measured length. MJ Copperfield (Russell Foster) finished third.
Brooksforreal, whom Stacey McLenaghan trains, has won 11 of 15 races in his career and banked $180,502.
Bryan Truitt’s Don’t Say Maybe took top speed honors among 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings with a 1:54 win in the other division.
In line to Frank Milby, the Rusty’s For Real-Sarcastic Bluechip gelding stalked splits of :27.2, :56.4 and 1:25 before emerging from third off the home turn and sweeping to the fore in the final yards to edge pocket rival Rusty’s Lancelot (Eric Davis) and 3-2 pacesetter Classic Cougar (William Carter) by a widening length.
Bryan Truitt Jr. trains Don’t Say Maybe, who returned $5.80 to win.
Owner-trainer-breeder Richard Hans and driver Johnathan Ahle partnered to sweep both sophomore trotting divisions, winning the colt and gelding division with Yall Keep Dreaming, who defeated Roan Ridge by 16-1/4 lengths in a lifetime best 1:55.2, and the filly division with Yall Just Love Me ($5.40), who circled cover to edge stablemate Y’all Know Me (Foster) by a half-length in 2:00.
Moyer scored his second winning Maryland Sire Stakes drive in the second 3-year-old filly pacing section, teaming his own trainee Pawny ($46.00) to a 22-1 upset over Post Jolene (Roberts) and tiring 1-9 pacesetter Toys Little Tinker (Carter) in 1:55.4.
Woody’s Girl ($2.40) won the other split, powering to a 3-1/4 length win over Lu’s Darling and Pams For Real in 1:56 while in line to Tim Deaton for trainer Kasey Bendix.
The spring Maryland Sire Stakes series will culminate with a quartet of $95,000 finals next Wednesday (May 14).
Live racing returns to Rosecroft on Sunday (May 11) with a pair of carryovers: $447.22 in the Pick-5 (races 3-7) and $5,925.36 in the Jackpot Hi-5 (race 10). First post for the 13-race program is noon.