by harness publicists across North America

Thursday’s (Nov. 11) edition of Racing Roundup features result stories from Dover Downs and Cal Expo.

Three Swings wins Veteran’s Day Dover feature

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Three Swings won the $14,000 3&4-Year-Old Veteran’s Day feature pace at Dover.

Dover, DE — Three Swings, an 11-1 longshot, won the $14,000 3&4-Year-Old Veteran’s Day feature pace on Thursday Nov. 11 at Dover Downs. Mike Cole had a driving triple, Daryl Bier won two races. .

Allan Davis piloted the overlooked Three Olives-Swinging Joyce gelding to his third win of the season for trainer Martin Davis and breeder-owners Allan Pullman and Joe Glickstein. The 1:55 clocking is a new record for the 4-year-old. Jolt (Frank Milby) finished second with Mattgician (Tony Morgan) third.

— Marv Bachrad

Cal Expo
Sitting at the caboose while the big favorite gets his own way on the engine usually isn’t a good combination, but nobody told that to Jam And Jelly who closed like an express train in the lane in the $5,200 Open Handicap Trot at Cal Expo on Thursday night. Coming away last into a :28.3 opening quarter, driver Luke Plano moved his charge to third-over position at the 7-16ths pole, but still found himself last by six lengths at the half-mile station, timed in :59. Following three-wide cover, but still last at the three-quarter marker, timed in 1:28, Plano felt a bit better. Moving five-wide with just under 3-16ths of a mile to go and brushing and gaining with an eighth of a mile go, Plano had to deal with the fact that the pocket sitting Rompaway Brandon (Tim Maier) had closed into the lead up the inside past the seven-eighths pole. Now flying with a sixteenth of a mile to go, there’d be no denying the 6-year-old. Owned by Marlene and Rick Thomas in partnership with trainer George Reider, Jam And Jelly got up on the wire to win ($12.80) by three-quarters of a length in 1:57.2. The triumph was her third in the last four and her 25th career victory. Rompaway Brandon finished in second and Putoneonnetformom (Rocky Stidham) finished 2-1/2 lengths farther back in third. The heavy 2-5 favorite Claudius Augustus faded to fourth.