Horse Of The Meet Wins At Dover

Published: January 28, 2016 11:48 pm EST

Twice Horse of the Meet Nova Artist scored his first win of 2016 to win one of the Thursday, Jan. 28 tri-feature races at Dover Downs.

Nova Artist turned back eight rivals in 1:51.3 to win the $9,000 Male pace to bring his lifetime earnings to just short of seven-digits -- $976,197 -- with his 44th career victory. Fire In The Belly (Vic Kirby) was second with Four Staces (George Dennis) third.

Nova Artist is an all-Davis family horse. Owned by the Delaware Valley’s all-time leading winning driver, Eddie Davis and his wife, Kathy, the nine-year-old son of Real Artist-Avon Lady, is trained by their son Martin and Allan, his driver.

Davis also guided Muffmaster to a 1:55 victory in a $9,000 Four- & Five-Year-Old Male pace for trainer Wayne Givens and Legacy Racing of Delaware. A Sportsmaster-Leterrippotatochip gelding, Muffmaster won for the third time this meet. Rocknroll Power (Corey Callahan) was next with River Thames (Jim Morand) the show finisher.

Scalped, a six-year-old Bettors Delight-Spirit Of The West horse owned by trainer Brenda Teague and driven by Montrell Teague, won the third co-feature posting a 1:52.2 triumph. Sweet Talkin Satin (Davis) was runner-up. Portrait (Art Stafford Jr.) closed well for third place.

Tony Morgan and trainer Joe Skowyra had two winners each.

(with files from Dover)

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