Following a second-place finish at Harrah’s Philadelphia eight days prior, Spring Blake returned to his winning ways — and his home track — with a gutsy 1:51.2 score over J M Mandamin in Monday’s (April 20) $12,000 Open Handicap Pace at Rosecroft Raceway.
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Captain Albano leads Borgata fourth-round winners at Yonkers
In Monday night’s (April 20) trio of $50,000 divisions of the fourth leg of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series at MGM Yonkers Raceway, Captain Albano and Mossdale Ben N scored for the second time in the event, while Howlenthehills got his initial victory.
But Why gets job done again at Saratoga Casino Hotel
But Why got the job done again in the Monday (April 20) feature at Saratoga Casino Hotel.
Tip Top Cat, Yankee B Something Dominant in Oak Grove Opens
Both Tip Top Cat, off the odds-on favorite, and Yankee B Something, amazingly dismissed as the fourth choice in the betting, returned to the Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel winner’s circle in their respective $30,000 top class affairs on Monday (April 20) with Tip Top Cat nabbing his second victory in the Open Pace and Yankee B Something collecting her third in the Fillies and Mares Open Pace.
Andre L, D A Mcdreamy take MVG co-feature
Andre L and D A Mcdreamy each took a division of the $22,000 Nw10pm co-feature at Miami Valley on Monday evening (April 20).
For Once Inmy Life did it twice at Plainridge Park
For the second week in a row, For Once Inmy Life went coast to coast and won the $25,000 Open Handicap pacing feature at Plainridge Park on Monday (April 20).
Hundred Dollar Man repeats Monday in Harrington feature
Brenda Teague’s Hundred Dollar Man ($4.80, Montrell Teague) improved to 2-for-2 at Harrington Raceway this year with a wire-to-wire triumph in the $20,000 Delaware Special Monday (April 20).
Meadows Monday Memo
Here is this week’s Meadows Monday Memo:
Dave Briggs to USHWA HOF Screening Committee
Dave Briggs, a member of the harness racing Communicators Hall of Fame as selected by the U.S. Harness Writers Association and also voted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, has been appointed to a four-year term on USHWA’s Hall of Fame Screening Committee.
Cigars And Port celebrates at Cumberland Sunday
Wally Watson was very confident in his own Cigars And Port on Sunday (April 19) in the $6,200 featured pace at Cumberland Raceway and drove him accordingly.