By: Jerry Connors, Jr.
CHESTER PA – A pair of $12,000 contests, one on each gait, for horses looking to climb the classification ladder were featured at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, over a surface that was rated “sloppy” most of the afternoon.
The pacing feature was for distaffs, and it was won in frontstepping fashion by the Huntsville sophomore filly Shes A Streaker, who equaled the 1:52 mark she set winning a Home Grown event at The Meadowlands last fall. Verity Blue Chip reluctantly accepted the pocket nearing the quarter and stayed second the rest of the way, finishing 2¾ lengths behind the winner. Ron Burke trains the victorious miss for Burke Racing Stable LLC, Knox Services Inc., Frank Baldachino, and J&T Silva- Purnel & Libby, and David Miller drove her.
In the trot, the Bold Eagle gelding Modigliani S, who has had a win, a third, and a fourth so far this year despite an early break in each of the first and last races, had perfect manners today, and came uncovered from midstretch to win and reduce his mark to 1:55.4 for driver Andrew McCarthy, trainer Nifty Norman, and owner Lella Montgomery. Favored Bay Breeze Hanover, who tucked early then moved in the wake of the flow of the winner, was second, a length behind Modigliani S and a neck ahead of pacesetting Santa Cristina.
Meet leader George Napolitano Jr. added to his cushion at the top by bringing home three winners, most of all the drivers on the card.
The two top paces on Philly’s Sunday at 12:40 card are a $13,500 contest for horses on the rise, and a $13,000 event for the fast-class set. “Super Sunday,” with three $100,000 Invitationals and Pennsylvania-sired action for the three-year-old pacing males, is set for two weeks from this Sunday, May 26. Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
CHESTER PA – A pair of $12,000 contests, one on each gait, for horses looking to climb the classification ladder were featured at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, over a surface that was rated “sloppy” most of the afternoon.
The pacing feature was for distaffs, and it was won in frontstepping fashion by the Huntsville sophomore filly Shes A Streaker, who equaled the 1:52 mark she set winning a Home Grown event at The Meadowlands last fall. Verity Blue Chip reluctantly accepted the pocket nearing the quarter and stayed second the rest of the way, finishing 2¾ lengths behind the winner. Ron Burke trains the victorious miss for Burke Racing Stable LLC, Knox Services Inc., Frank Baldachino, and J&T Silva- Purnel & Libby, and David Miller drove her.
In the trot, the Bold Eagle gelding Modigliani S, who has had a win, a third, and a fourth so far this year despite an early break in each of the first and last races, had perfect manners today, and came uncovered from midstretch to win and reduce his mark to 1:55.4 for driver Andrew McCarthy, trainer Nifty Norman, and owner Lella Montgomery. Favored Bay Breeze Hanover, who tucked early then moved in the wake of the flow of the winner, was second, a length behind Modigliani S and a neck ahead of pacesetting Santa Cristina.
Meet leader George Napolitano Jr. added to his cushion at the top by bringing home three winners, most of all the drivers on the card.
The two top paces on Philly’s Sunday at 12:40 card are a $13,500 contest for horses on the rise, and a $13,000 event for the fast-class set. “Super Sunday,” with three $100,000 Invitationals and Pennsylvania-sired action for the three-year-old pacing males, is set for two weeks from this Sunday, May 26. Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
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