3YO Opens To Fashion Feline, Mystery Photo

Fashion Feline and Mystery Photo earned new speed marks in their respective Three-Year-Old Open Trots - one for fillies and one for colts - this afternoon at Meadowlands Racetrack

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Fashion Feline went wire-to-wire to record her first win of the season in the $25,000 Open for three-year-old filly trotters.

Leaving from Post 6 with Brian Sears in the bike, Fashion Feline carved out fractions of :27.4, :55.1 and 1:22.4 and held off Bone A Fide (Yannick Gingras), who rallied off the cover of eventual third-place finisher Bar Slide, the 3-2 favourite. Fashion Feline got her nose to the wire first in a career-best 1:53.

The Jim Campbell-trained filly paid $7.60 for the win as the 5-2 second choice. Fashion Feline was making her second start of the season for Fashion Farms LLC of New Hope, Pennsylvania. The daughter of Broadyway Hall-Sly Fox won seven of her 12 races as a freshman, including the Pennsylvania Sires Stakes Championship, and banked $321,332.

One race later, Mystery Photo benefitted from a pair of front-end breakers to win the matching Open for sophomore trotting colts and geldings in 1:54.1.

Mystery Photo and Andy Miller followed last year's Breeders Crown champion Pilgrims Taj (Mike Lachance), the even-money favourite, through stations of :28, :57 and 1:25.3 with Break The Bank K (Tim Tetrick) applying first over pressure. As the field turned for home, Pilgrims Taj made a costly break causing interference to Break The Bank K and knocking him off stride as well as the second over Rc Gallent Image (George Brennan). Mystery Photo avoided the breakers along the pylons and kicked home in :28.1 to knock one second-fifth of a second off his mark.
Oh No Its Steveo (Brian Sears) finished 2-3/4 lengths behind with Pretty Boy Lindy (John Campbell) coming in third.

Mystery Photo paid $9.60 to win as the 7-2 third choice. The son of S Js Photo-Enchanted Victory, who made just one start as a two-year-old, notched his third win in eight tries this year lifting his bankroll to $78,701. Julie Miller trains for David and John Prushnok, William Gregg and Erv Miller.

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