Favoured Fillies Prevail In Courageous Lady

Published: April 30, 2011 11:34 pm EDT

Some Girls Do and I Kill Time both delivered on their pari-mutuel promises in a pair of Courageous Lady Pace divisions for three-year-old fillies on Saturday night

at Northfield Park.

Tender Loving Care and Night Styles Series champion Some Girls Do ($2.60) won an early speed duel with Hi Maintenancechic (Aaron Merriman) and led at every call en-route to a 1:53.2 victory in the $50,750 first division of the Courageous Lady. The three-year-old daughter of American Ideal-Village Green, driven by Dave Palone, posted fractions of :27, :57.1 and 1:25.4 before sprinting home in :27.3 for the one and three-quarter length victory over Hi Maintenancechic. Nelly Hanover (Dan Charlino) was third.

Some Girls Do won for the eighth time in 10 seasonal starts and pushed her 2011 earnings over $113,000 for owners Burke Racing, Weaver Bruscemi Llc, Frank Baldachino and Earl Smith.

Despite being parked-out past the opening :26.3 quarter-mile mark, the season-debuting I Kill Time ($3.60) won the second $50,750 division of the Courageous Lady, holding off Stash The Cash (Aaron Merriman) to score by one and three-quarter lengths in 1:54.1. Real Joy (Eric Carlson) finished third.

Robin Schadt trains the winner, who was purchased for $170,000 at the Harrisburg sale by Odds On Racing of Crete, Illinois. The win was a lifetime best for the 2010 New Jersey Sires Stake champion and Matron runner-up, who has now earned just shy of $169,000 in her career. Kurt Sugg drove the winner, his fifth in the first 11 races of the night.

(With files from Northfield Park)

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