Making her first start of the year, JAs Charmer won the $8,500 Fillies & Mares Open Trot at Buffalo Raceway Friday night.

The win was the sixth in 34 lifetime starts for the four-year-old Cr Commando mare, who is trained by Gerry Sarama and owned by Michael Torcello of Hamburg, New York.

Dismissed by the bettors at 9-1, JAs Charmer ($21.40) and driver Billy Dobson settled in sixth as eventual second-place finisher Neon Dream (Jack Flanigen) cut all the fractions in the race (:30, 1:00.3, and 1:31).

As the field was heading down the backstretch the second time, JAs Charmer made her move to engage the leaders at the top of the stretch. A :29-second last quarter-mile put the winner one and a quarter lengths ahead at the finish line. Keystone Fling (Kevin Cummings) came in third. The winning time was 2:00.3.

The $4,250 winning share of the purse put JAs Charmer’s lifetime earnings at $104,376.

(With files from Buffalo Raceway)