Bruce Aldrich, Jr. put on a driving clinic at Monticello Raceway on the snowy Monday afternoon of December 7 when he reined six winners on the card
. And had Aldrich’s pacer Romi Mystic had one more final surge near the wire in the tenth race he would have had seven wins.
Aldrich started his assault in the second race when he won with Longbeach Victor in a time of 2:04:1. His next triumph came in race four when he guided Our Special Girl to a 2:03:4 victory.
He returned to victory lane in the seventh race Trust Funding in a 2:02:1 followed by back-to-back scores in the eighth and ninth races with Windy Dawn in 2:04:4 and Tropical Bay in 2:02:2.
The second place finish - by a short nose - in the tenth race stopped five consecutive for Aldrich because he came back to win the eleventh race with Take A Peek N.
But six wins and two seconds is a good day in anybody’s book.
“This is the best day I ever.” Aldrich said. “I’ve won five races on a card seven times but never had I won six. I’m thrilled.”
(Monticello Raceway)