from Dresden Raceway

Dresden, ON — GD Cruise For Gold won his third consecutive race at Dresden Raceway on Sunday (June 11) in a great time and fashion. The 3-year-old Allthatglitrsisgold gelding stepped off a last quarter in :28.3 for Donnie Rankin and made up 3-1/2 lengths in the stretch to win the Little Saratoga Cup in 2:00 flat.

Sweet Queen Cole and Mark Williams set the fractions of :30, 1:00.4 and 1:30.2 while GD Cruise For Gold bided his time sitting along the pylons. When the field turned for home a hole opened up and the gelding slipped out to chase Williams and Sweet Queen Cole down for the win.

GD Cruise For Gold is owned and trained by Rankin and has now reeled off three straight wins at Dresden Raceway and banked over C$12,350 in 2017.

The Little Saratoga Cup was started last year as working horse’s race to honor those horses that carve out a living in regular overnight cards of racing.

Things ended in great fashion at Dresden Raceway today as the last race concluded a nose away from a triple dead heat. Rightinthekisser with Andy Moore and First Art Down with Dennis Spitzig hit the wire together in a dead heat while Last Lecture and Jeff Mayhew were a nose away in third.

Rightinthekisser held the top spot most of the mile except when NJ’s Trick Pistol tried to get by at the three-quarters but couldn’t clear. First Art Down and Last Lecture closed hard for the great finish in 1:59.4.

In another story for the day, Evil Cam Evil reeled off his fourth win in a row for driver Lorne House as he cut fractions of :29.1, :59.1, 1:29.4 for a winning mile of 2:01.4. The Camluck gelding is owned and trained by Dennis Belan while Doug Belan and Brian Fitzgerald are co-owners. Seventy-four-year-old Gerald Pedden was in the sulky behind Today’s Sports for a second place finish behind Evil Cam Evil.

The on-track handle was C$18,309 for day.