Snazzy Millie Returns

This morning, Snazzy Millie, the aged trotting mare with over $1.1 million in career purses, put in her first charted mile since July 26, 2008 during the six-race qualifying docket

at a blustery Mohawk Racetrack.

Windy winter conditions were a major factor during the qualifying card. The judges rated the track as 'good' and assessed a four-second track variant.

Driven by Paul MacDonell for trainer Kevin O'Reilly, Snazzy Millie started from Post 7 in the nine-horse opening tilt.

MacDonell fired the 31-time career winner off the gate and sent the mare to the opening call five lengths the best in :29.2. The O'Brien Award winning reinsman and the 10-year-old Royal Strength mare opened up lengths along the backstretch and clicked off the opening-half call in :58.3.

The duo continued to hold a multiple length lead around the sweeping final bend. The brown lass clicked off three quarters in 1:29.2 seven lengths the best. That lead was reduced to one and a half lengths by the time Snazzy Millie hit the head of the lane.

In the end, a pair of closers got the better of Snazzy Millie and she wound up finishing third, beaten more than eight lengths. The 2006 Earl Rowe Memorial winner trotted her mile in 2:02.3.

Owned by Terry Devos of Langston, Ontario, Snazzy Millie has put it 164 career pari-mutuel starts and has compiled a record of 31-28-17. In total, she has banked $1,151,121 in purses. She took her mark of 1:53.1 over Mohawk at age seven.

A hard-knocking regular on the Woodbine Entertainment Group circuit, Snazzy Millie made the trek across the pond with driver Rick Zeron in 2006 to compete in the Elitlopp in Solvalla, Sweden.

To view the harness racing results from the Mohawk qualifying session, click here.