A suddenly streaking Enhance Your Mind stepped up in class to score a 1:51.3 victory in Tuesday’s $20,000 Mares Open Handicap Pace while Vintage Babe lengthened her win streak to six-in-a-row over a sloppy track at Dover Downs.
Vic Kirby drove the Delaware-sired Riggins-Enhance The Night six-year-old who loves the front-end to an impressive 1:51.3 triumph in the week’s top distaff event.
Owned and trained by Bryan Truitt, Enhance Your Mind came into her own last season winning nearly $100,000 in purses. She won her third of 2017, fourth straight and seventh win in her last eight starts this meet, turning back seven rivals with a :27.1 final panel. Nat A Virgin (Corey Callahan) was a game second challenging the winner from the backstretch to late in the stretch. The sharp Sweet Bobbie (Art Stafford, Jr.) was third.
One race earlier, Yannick Gingras guided Vintage Babe home first for the sixth consecutive time to post a 1:52.2 decision in a $13,500 contest for distaffers. Barbaras Shadow (Kirby), who has won her previous two races, finished second. Valuable Art (Callahan) was the show horse.
Ed Gannon, Jr. trains Vintage Babe and co-owns with Frank Canzone and Bob Sabatini the four-year-old daughter of Vintage Master-Bunkhouse Babe.
Yannick Gingras held the hot hands on Tuesday thanks to his five trips to victory lane.
(With files from Dover Downs)