A pair of $8,800 features, one for filly and mares pacers and one for trotters headlined the Friday night (Nov. 12) program at Batavia Downs Casino. For the third week in a row the same horses won
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The Grey Filly and Fifty Two Finn pulled the three-peat when they won Mares Open and Open Trot respectively, and did it in spite of being assigned the extreme outside post-positions.
Spotted third-over, The Grey Filly, with trainer-driver Ron Bebeck, Jr., angled to the rail in the stretch and got up at the wire to defeat Silveresque with Jack Flanigen by a neck in 1:56.4. Artistry In Rhythm (Ken Holliday) was farther back in third.
It was the seventh of the season for The Grey Filly, a four-year-old by Northern Luck. She has earned more than $54,000 for owner Sandy Beback.
Winning is something the 10-year-old Movie Mogul gelding Fifty Two Finn knows how do as he notched the 45th of his career.
Poised to strike at the top of the stretch, John Cummings, Jr. tipped Fifty Two Finn three-wide off cover and they roared down the lane to nail the front-running three-year-old filly, Hat, and Tom Agosti by a neck in 1:59.2 for owner-trainer Ronald Stebbins. Bankers Dream (Ray Fisher, Jr.) wound up third.
Fifty Two Finn has over $434,000 in lifetime earnings.
(Batavia Downs)