Western Conquest Claims Buffalo Open
Western Conquest won in a season's-best performance in Buffalo Raceway's featured $11,500 Open Pace on Saturday, June 2, squeezing to the front by a nose at the wire to post the $14.00 victory.
Focus Power cut the fractions, with splits of :27.3, :56.1 and 1:25.2. Western Conquest was first over and went eyeball-to-eyeball with Focus Power in the final quarter of a mile and just managed to get a nostril in front at the line. Im So Handsome took the show position.
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Owned by the Tanah Merah Farms LLC and trained by Ryan Swift, it was the fourth victory in eight starts for Western Conquest, by American Ideal-Aries Conquest. The seven-year-old has now jacked his seasonal earnings to $20,490 and $279,081 in his career.
Racing will resume on Wednesday, June 6 at 5 p.m. with a 12-race card scheduled. The New York Sire Stakes will make its first appearance of the 2018 season at Buffalo Raceway with the three-year-old colt and gelding trotters headlining the program. There will also be action in the Excelsior A and B Series as well.
(With files from Buffalo Raceway)