Racing fans got to see a truly amazing racehorse compete and win when for the 88th time is his career the popular 14-year-old trotter, Berman Boomer, went on to victory, Friday night at Batavia Downs Casino
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The calendar may say retirement from racing isn’t far off but the way he easily handled a tough $10,000 optional claiming field one would never know it.
Leaving from the rail, Jack Flanigen put the senior citizen right on the lead and they went coast-to-coast to score for the 12th time this season in 2:02 over a racetrack listed as sloppy. 'Boomer' raised his lifetime bankroll to more than $210,000. Lisa Lederhouse conditions the old-timer for owner Kathy Schoeffel.
“He’s an iron horse, to be his age and still have that kind of fight in him is incredible,” reinsman Jack Flanigen said. “To race at the level he’s at week in and week out at 14 is just amazing. Lisa’s done a tremendous job with him.”
Racing fans will have a nice Pick-6 carryover of $2,007 to shot at on Robert J. Kane Memorial night. The $40,000 Kane Memorial pace is the first leg of the Pick-6.
Saratoga invader River Shark, Yonkers invader Handsome Prince and Batavia Downs track record holder for three-year-old colts and geldings, Joey The Czar, headline the field. Approximate post time for the Kane Memorial is 8:10 p.m.
The co-feature of the evening is the $10,000 Brian Schroeder Memorial trot. The gutsy gelding, Scorpion Moon, figures to go off a prohibitive favourite.
(Batavia Downs)