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)