Dayton Open To Insomniac
For the second straight week, Insomniac was wide awake when starter Mike Woebkenberg called the 'Trick or Treat' Open trotters to the gate at Hollywood Dayton Raceway during a Halloween matinee.
The four-year-old son of Crazed-Catch Some Zs’ eyes were bulging through his bridle when trainer-driver Brady Galliers sent him quickly on his way from the word go. Outsprinting Atlas Peak (Sandy Beatty) to gain control an eighth of a mile into the race, Insomniac yielded to Rockn Stien (Josh Sutton) just past the opening :28 panel.
Content to sit in the pocket around the second turn, with the half clocked in :56, the winner was aggressively move back out to challenge before the 1:24.4 three-quarters and cleared Rockn Stien with relative ease. With Atlas Peak angling out to challenge in the stretch and Rockn Stien trying to fight back inside, Insomniac cruised home in :29.2 to hold the challengers at bay by a length in 1:54.1.
Rockn Stien and Atlas Peak couldn’t be separated in a photo finish for second and thus shared the place and show dividends in the $15,000 race.
(Hollywood Dayton Raceway)