Wind Of The North trotted home for his 50th career victory on Monday (Dec. 3) at Northfield Park, as he came home first in the third race on the program.
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Wind Of The North, pictured posting his 50th career win on Monday (Dec. 3) at Northfield Park
Wind Of The North, an eight-year-old veteran, has made 164 career starts and has also notched 36 seconds and 21 third-place finishes.
Wind Of The North, by Cantab Hall, has career earnings of $1,035,258 and a lifetime mark of 1:51, which was taken at Pocono at age four. The trotter’s richest win was for a purse of $100,000 in the Chip Noble Trot at Scioto Downs in 2015. Wind Of The North is a well-travelled campaigner – his 50 wins have been spread across 13 different racing surfaces.
Wind Of The North was assigned Post 8 in the evening’s $19,000 Open Handicap Trot. He fired off the gate despite having started from the far outside and led at every call through fractions of :27.2, :57.4 and 1:26.2. His win time was 1:55 over a ‘sloppy’ surface. He bested his competition by a two and a quarter lengths. He was the race favourite and returned $3.40 to win.
William Bercury of Slippery Rock, PA owns and trains Wind Of The North. Aaron Merriman was aboard for the winning drive.
Merriman had a big night on Monday winning a total of eight times on the 15-race program.
(Northfield Park)