Feathery Fame upset winner in Cape & Cutter Final, Mary Sue Too captures TLC

from Meadowlands Media Relations

Longshot Feathery Fame was an upset winner of the $91,600 Cape & Cutter Final and even-money favorite Mary Sue Too captured the $79,5000 Tender Loving Care, the co-featured stakes for pacing mares on Friday night at the Meadowlands.

Mary Sue Too [$4.00, $2.80, $2.60] extended her winning streak to four and completed a series sweep with a length and three-quarter victory in the $79,500 Tender Loving Care Final for three-year-old pacing fillies, the sixth race.

Ron Pierce put even-money favorite Mary Sue Too on the lead by the half and then drew away in the stretch for a mile in 1:53.3, a stakes record, knocking a fifth of a second off the mark of 1:53.4 set by Thrilled in 2004.

Alexa Hall [$7.40, $5.20], driven by Jim Morrill Jr., was second with Vampires Luv Blood [$8.60], driven by George Brennan, getting up for third by two and three-quarter lengths.

Mary Sue Too, a three-year-old daughter of Western Hanover – Mary Sue Hanover, was unraced at two and now has four wins in five starts racing for D’Elegance Stable, TLP Stable and Adam Victor & Son Stable LLC. Mary Sue Too provided trainer Noel Daley with his fourth winner of the night.

“We got a nice little trip,” said Pierce. “She got to relax until the three quarters and then she paced home strong. At the start, I tapped her and goosed her. She got surprised and threw in a couple of steps. It was my fault. I’ll be a little more careful next time. She’s not a bad filly at all; she’s a pretty nice filly.”

Feathery Fame [$113.20, $38.00, $12.80], driven by David Miller, rallied off cover to win a three-mare photo and score a head victory over Odds On Charmaine [$19.20, $9.20], with Patrick Lachance in the sulky, in the Cape & Cutter for older mares, carded as the seventh race.

It was a neck back to Artbitration [$4.80], guided by Patrick Berry, in third.

Feathery Fame, the longest priced on the board, covered the mile in 1:51 flat, a stakes record, supplanting the 1:51.2 mile of Carolina Sunshine in 2004.

“The trip worked out good,” said Miller. “I had cover until the top of the stretch. I followed the right horse. [My mare] came up big. Nobody thought she could win it at 55-1. I was hoping for a check. You’ve got to give credit to the trainer [George Anthony].”

“She never disgraced herself against these mares,” said Anthony. “She would only get beat by two or three lengths. Tonight she followed Burning Point and that gave her a great second-over trip. David gave her a perfect drive, and she responded great, even better than I thought she would. She was 8-1 against these mares a few weeks ago, and I thought she had a serious shot. She’s a game little thing. We took her for $55,000 back in September, and she has been nothing but wonderful for us.”

Feathery Fame is owned by Darryl and Marie Gombert of Rutherford, New Jersey and Jeffrey and Suzanne Rose of Brooklyn, New York. The five-year-old daughter of Apaches Fame – Countess Camae now has three wins and two thirds from eight starts this year.

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