Tobago Time ($3.40) vanquished first-round winners Cinders Baby and Stealing Bases with a 1:56 score in her $20,000 second-round division of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund series for three-year-old pacing fillies on Wednesday (Dec. 8) at Dover Downs, while fellow odds-on choice Littlebagoftricks ($2.80) captured the other split.
Tobago Time pressed forward out of post four in line to Allan Davis and strung Cinder's Baby (Ross Wolfenden) out through a :26.3 first quarter before yielding for a pocket ride. The daughter of Tobago Cays and Time Frame N drafted behind middle sectionals of :56.1 and 1:25.2, through which Cinder's Baby was significantly softened up by the first-over Stealing Bases (Victor Kirby). Davis angled Tobago Time to the open stretch and she surged to the lead in the final sixteenth, edging 1-1/2 lengths clear of Cinders Baby. Stealing Bases narrowly held third over the second-over Roses And Orchids.
Chuck Crissman Jr. trains Tobago Time for breeder David Hamm, who co-owns the eight-time winner with Glenn Phillips.
The earlier division saw Littlebagoftricks and Dexter Dunn launch a first-over bid out of fourth with three-eighths to go, push clear of early pacesetter Seboomook Beauty (Corey Callahan) midway on the far turn, and evade the a charge from runner-up Hey Hey Dbay (Kirby) — who chased the winner's cover through the far turn — by 2-3/4 lengths to win in 1:56.2. Trainer Josh Green shares ownership in the Roddy's Bags Again-Bit Of Trick filly, a winner in 10 of 16 career starts to date, with Rich Lombardo Racing LLC. Green Racing Inc. is the winning breeder.
First-round winners Cinders Baby and Stealing Bases and second-round winners Tobago Time and Littlebagoftricks all earned berths to next Thursday's (Dec. 16) $100,000 DSBF final, as did Hey Hey Dbay, Roses And Orchids, Seboomook Beauty and It's Turtle Time.
Three-year-old pacing colts and geldings contest the second preliminary round of their DSBF series Thursday (Dec. 9), squaring off in races one, two and four on the 14-race card. First post is 4:30 p.m. EST.
(Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund)