Following a Tuesday card that included five winners for Brett Beckwith, the young reinsman eclipsed that mark on Wednesday afternoon at Saratoga Casino Hotel.
Beckwith, who was the Dan Patch Rising Star Award winner in 2024, has picked up right where he left off in the beginning stages of 2025. On
Wednesday, Feb. 19, Beckwith piled up an incredible seven winners on the 14-race matinee card to pad his early lead in the driver standings at the Spa.
Beckwith sat behind the Jaymes McAssey-trained Legal Attack as the four-year-old son of Bettors Delight made his local debut. Bet down as the 2-5 favourite in the $13,380 co-featured conditioned pace for colts and geldings, Legal Attack wasted little time moving out to the lead and carved out the fractions throughout the mile en route to a 1:55.3 score on another cold day in the Spa City.
That victory was the fourth on the day for Beckwith, whose afternoon just kept getting better.
The track’s defending leading driver guided winners in both halves of the late double as he guided his mother Melissa Beckwith’s trainees, Captain Tell and Swiss Cotton, to late day scores to put the finishing touches on his seven-win afternoon.
Live harness racing resumes on Sunday afternoon with a matinee that begins at 12 p.m.
(With files from Saratoga Casino Hotel)