Victory Is Coming Takes Top Trot
Victory Is Coming, at age three the youngest in the field, showed her elders how it’s done when she slipped through an opening in the stretch and captured Tuesday’s $22,500 Filly & Mare Preferred Handicap Trot at The Meadows
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Victory Is Coming was fifth by 3-1/2 lengths at the top of the lane and pinned inside, but when Mike Wilder guided her off the cones the Victory Sam-Norse Comer filly threaded her way between horses and scored in 1:57.4 over a sloppy surface. Toms OK Lady raced well from Post 9 to finish 1-1/4 lengths back in second, with Rose Run Keepsake a closing third.
Marty Wollam trains Victory Is Coming, who has won 20 of 30 career starts for a sparkling win percentage of 67, for Betty Shaw and John Red Shaw.
Tony Hall and Dave Palone each drove three winners on the 15-race card.
(The Meadows)