Let It Ride Stable, Inc. and Dana Parham's Prairie Sweetheart brings her perfect career record to The Meadowlands, seeking her 15th straight victory on Friday night.
The lightly-raced Florida-bred four-year-old mare caught the eye of her current connections with impressive back-to-back scores at Pocono and Yonkers last summer and was placed in the barn of Ross Croghan at The Red Mile after a private purchase.
With no Grand Circuit stakes on her calendar, the new owners chose an unconventional route for Prairie Sweetheart (Royel Millennium - Taylors Lady) by choosing to supplement her to the Allerage Farms Free For All mare pace where she would face division leader Lady Shadow among a very accomplished field of veteran pacing mares. She rewarded their faith with a surprisingly easy 1:49.1 win against that company.
After romping through what remained of her Florida stakes Prairie Sweetheart was put away for the winter and has had a pair of Pompano qualifiers to prepare for Friday's race. She'll begin from post five for driver John Campbell, facing five rivals in an $18,000 conditioned pace.
The Friday offering is a ten-race program that begins at 7:15 p.m.
(with files from The Meadowlands)