Docs Girl Friday took flight in the final quarter of her $10,000 Prospect Series Leg 4A contest for three-year-old pacing fillies to tie the Georgian Downs track record for that cohort on Tuesday, Aug. 18.

Travis Cullen tucked the filly in fourth behind early action up front, with Savour The Moment (Austin Sorrie) hustling out from post seven to the top before yielding to the give-and-go from Playsomethingsweet (J Harris). Docs Girl Friday was in the breeze before the latter cleared past a :28 quarter, and Cullen brought her to the front as the field neared the second turn. She allowed no challenge to her leadership with sharp middle panels of :56 and 1:23.1, and as her foes laboured after those fractions, she produced a :27.4 closer to extend away by 11-3/4 lengths in a 1:51 mile. Playsomethingsweet was second, followed by Mc Princess (Jason Ryan).

The three-year-old filly pace record was initially set by Write Me A Song, who registered that mark in an Ontario Sires Stakes Gold race in 2018.

Docs Girl Friday scored her first victory in Ontario after a triumphant campaign earlier this year in Kentucky in which she won the Kentucky Proud Series final. The daughter of Shadow Play-Docs Hope debuted in the province last year for current trainer Jodie Cullen and made her return start on Aug. 7 after competing for trainer-driver Randy Jerrell in the United States. She has eight wins in 13 seasonal starts after a winless three-start rookie season and has earned $97,679. The filly returned $2.10 to win.

Two other sophomore pacing filly divisions and two for three-year-old male pacers went forward on the card. The filly winners were Mollys On Fire ($6.10) in 1:53.3 for trainer Jason Libby, and Amazing Addy ($5.10), who scored in 1:52.2 for John Pentland; both were driven by Austin Sorrie. Over Bet ($4) won the first colt contest in 1:53.2 with Mark MacDonell in the bike for Josh McKibbin, and McKibbin’s Saulsbrook Rodeo (Jason Ryan) and the Nick Gallucci-trained Could Be King (Travis Cullen) dead heated in 1:54.2 in the second.

To view Tuesday’s harness racing results, click the following link: Tuesday Results - Georgian Downs.

(Standardbred Canada)