Lexington, Ky.— Seaside Ubeaut snagged an easy lead and rolled through sensible fractions to win the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series second preliminary for 2-year-old pacing fillies during a makeup card of racing on Monday evening (Aug. 17) at The Red Mile.
Leaving from post 3, Seaside Ubeaut (driven by Dexter Dunn) pushed for the front with My Taylors Swift (Todd McCarthy) securing the pocket towards a :28 first quarter. The field remained single file as Seaside Ubeaut coasted up the backstretch towards a :55.4 half but steadily broke rank while Dunn’s charge strode through the last turn. Banana Beach (Andy McCarthy) angled out of fourth to race first up while Seaside Ubeaut plugged towards three-quarters in 1:23.4. My Taylors Swift had room to pull from the pocket into the stretch and laid aim on the leader, but Seaside Ubeaut staved off that rival all through the stretch to cross the beam a neck better in a 1:50.3 mile with Banana Beach settling for third and Sister Girl Blues (Marvin Luna) giving chase in fourth.
Andrew Harris trains Seaside Ubeaut, a filly by Downbytheseaside out of world champion mare Warrawee Ubeaut who collected her second win from three starts and pushed her earnings to $61,400 for owner Punisher 11 Stable LLC.
Driver Tim Tetrick was unseated from Fendilicious just after the start of that Kentucky Championship Series division when one of his lines broke. Tetrick stood up from the incident and walked back to the paddock on his own power but booked off his remaining drives for the evening.
Tetrick won earlier in the makeup card in the lone $30,000 division of the Kentucky Commonwealth Series for 2-year-old pacing fillies when making a fierce first-over blitz in the last turn with Pillow Play to grab the lead and then hold off pocket-rallying Sweet As Silk (Todd McCarthy) for a neck victory in 1:51.1. Scott Di Domenico trains the Papi Rob Hanover-Angel’s Pride filly for owners Triple D Stables Inc., Michael Rekoon and Steve Stewart.
Live harness racing at The Red Mile resumes on Tuesday (Aug. 17) with a 15-race card headlined by an $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series division for 3-year-old pacing males and an $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series division for 3-year-old trotting fillies. First-race post time is 1 p.m. (EDT).
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