Wilkes-Barre PA — The rare sight of a pinto trotter in a winner’s circle happened at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Tuesday afternoon (July 12), as Jakarta Partygirl came out best in a four-horse battle to break her maiden in 1:58.2.

Jakarta Partygirl came out best in a four-horse battle to break her maiden in 1:58.2. Curtis Salonick photo.

Jakarta Partygirl, a 3-year-old daughter of Googoo Gaagaa out of the Larks Crown mare Fancy Starlark, is registered as a “pinto” filly, which is officially defined as a horse with white and another color as major body colors. She is trained and was driven by Åke Svanstedt for Knutsson Trotting Inc.

Jakarta Partygirl had failed to hit the board in six previous career starts, but here Svanstedt could wait until the three-quarters to guide her outside, and she worked to the lead, then held off closer Chase My Lindy by a head, with pacesetter Southern Autumn a half-length back in third.

A 2-year-old trotting filly of special interest to fans of elite trotting, Emira Mil IT, a daughter of Face Time Bourbon out of Sunshine Bi, made her debut for Svanstedt, and after cutting the pace she held on for a dead-heat for first with the pocket sitter Gina’s On Fire (by Cantab Hall out of Shes On Fire), trained and driven by Todd Schadel, in 1:58.3.

Flyingdrumsticks S, a 2-year-old filly by Muscle Hill out of Timbal, reaches back to Svanstedt’s homeland, and she was successful in her purse bow, finding her best strides in the stretch to debut a 1:57.4 winner.

Svanstedt completed a perfect day in four starts while wearing the colors of Diamond Creek Farms, as the Muscle Hill–Atonement colt Challenger was a pocket rocket in his purse bow, stopping the timer in 1:57.3.