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Thursday’s (Feb. 17) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from Dover Downs and Cal Expo.

Jolt shakes up competition in Dover feature

Dover, DE — Frank Milby drove 13-1 shot Jolt down the passing lane to win the $14,000 Thursday, Feb.17 feature race.

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Jolt scored a 1:54.1 victory in a $14,000 4&5-year-old pace.

Moving from an outside post 8 to the inside was just what the doctor ordered for Dale Milby’s Jolt, trained by his brother Don, and driven by his nephew Frank Milby in the feature race. Jolt, overlooked at 13-1, stormed down the inside to collar Red Hour Back (Matt Kakaley) in the closing strides to rack up a 1:54.1 victory in a $14,000 4&5-year-old pace. Mr. Jerry C (Tim Curtin) was the show finisher. The win was the first of the year for the homebred Powerful Toy-Merciful Maddie gelding.

Meet leading driver Corey Callahan and leading trainer Josh Green teamed for the successful 1:54.1 triumph of Kiss My Art in an $11,500 4&5-Year-Old pace. The Artsplace-No Kiss N Tell gelding his now three wins, two seconds and a third in his last seven races. Beignet (Montrell Teague) closed strongly along the passing lane but had to settle for second. The Village Rusty (Brad Hanners) was third.

— Marv Bachrad

Cal Expo
A field of seven trotters were featured at Cal Expo on Thursday night for a purse of $3,400 over a sloppy track, in which Aston Boko, the youngest horse in the race, repeated. Coming away fourth through a :30.1 opening quarter for driver Rich Wojcio, then gapping a bit in a strong wind-aided second quarter into a 1:00.1 first half, the 4-year-old eventually closed the gap while inheriting third past the five-eighths pole when the pacesetting Jess Or No (Luke Plano) broke and the pocket sitting Rompaway Brandon (Tim Maier) inherited the lead. Aston Boko was out slightly with cover at the three-quarter pole, timed in 1:30.2. Managing to be up at the wire by a neck despite being near the outside fence, the Marco Rios owned and trained horse won ($14.80) in 2:00.1, a lifetime best. Rompaway Brandon had to settle for second and Foxy Lady De Vie (Steve Wiseman) finished 2-1/4 lengths farther back in third.