Trotters Alleigh Girl and La Vita Loca Lady, and pacers Seboomook Hooter, Genies Genie and No Picnic won their second leg preliminary divisions of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund Stakes on Saturday night at Dover Downs
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Nanticoke Racing and Delbert Cain’s Alleigh Girl made a decisive move after the half to get the lead and record her sixth consecutive victory while setting a lifetime mark of 2:00 in the first of two $20,000 filly trots. It was one of four driving wins for Ross Wolfenden. Commitment To Win (Roger Plante) was second with Great Quantity (Jeff Fout) third. The victory was the seventh in nine starts for Alleigh Girl, now a winner of $101,440 this year.
Brad Hanners drove La Vita Local Rusty to her maiden-breaking victory in the other $20,000 DSBF prelim. Bobby Myers trains the Don Boss Vita-Country Inn filly for breeder-owner Carter Racing Stable. Bosston Bell (George Dennis) was a fast finishing second. Jodi Lin (Kim Vincent) took third money. Winning lifted La Vita Loca Rusty’s earnings to $19,130.
Seboomook Hooter won the first DSBF Filly Pace prelim with Wolfenden at the controls. The Garnet O’Marrow bred and owned Badlands Hanover-Stonebridge Bliss homebred, trained by Wayne Givens, lowered her career mark to 1:56 winning for the second time this season. Joyanna (Ben Stafford) was second-best. Triple Wire (Montrell Teague) took third. The triumph brings Seboomook Hooter to $22,150 in earnings.
Genies Genie received a canny drive from veteran reinsman Tony Morgan on the way to a 1:56.4 lifetime record in another filly prelim. Karens Assets (Jon Roberts) came alongside Genies Genie on the backstretch and even had the lead on the outside before Morgan ushered his Badlands Hanover-Backlash lass back into the lead and held on in the lane for the win. Preston Burris and Dave Hanauer own Genies Genie, a three-time winner who has banked $57,500.
Four starters in the other $20,000 DSBF prelim were scratched. In a three-filly race, No Picnic and Wolfenden sat behind leader Designer Bags cutting the mile until mid-stretch when No Picnic came out and overtook the leader reaching the finish line in 1:56.2, equalling his winning time of a week ago. Badlands Racing and LeBlanc Racing own the Badlands Hanover-Michiko bay. It was her fifth win in nine starts for the $67,871 earner. Macs Journey (Sean Bier) was third all the way.
The top eight point-getters in each of the two DSBF frosh filly divisions return next Saturday for $100,000 finals.
The last of the Matron Stakes with a $211,465 purse and four $20,000 DSBF Colt prelims top the Sunday card, which beginds at 5:30 p.m.
(With files from Dover Downs)