After scoring a pillar-to-post win in last week's Preferred 3, Sylvain Descheneaux and the Gaar Racing Stables' Barockey ($6.10) used different tactics to take Saturday's (Feb. 23) featured $10,500 Preferred 2 Pace for fillies and mares at Flamboro Downs.
The 10-year-old Mach Three mare floated forward from post two in the field of six, yielding only to the outside pair of Robintheatm (Brett MacDonald) and Phoos Girl (Marc St. Louis) on approach to a :28.1 first quarter. Well after the field continued single file through a :58.4 half, Alfie Carroll angled Barockey first-over in front of Twenty Three Red (J Harris) to avoid traffic up the backstretch. Barockey went on to challenge Robintheatm for the lead with just over a quarter mile remaining, seize command midway on the final turn, and prove a measured winner in 1:58 over Phoos Girl, who angled out of the pocket to give late chase for second. Aint Three OK (Robert Shepherd), dispatched the 3-5 favourite, rallied mildly down the grandstand side from third-over for third.
Richard Moreau trains Barockey, who has won three of four races in February and 52 in her career.
In the sub-featured $8,500 Preferred 3 distaff, Bradley and John Powell's War Filly ($4) proved a wire-to-wire winner in 1:58, two lengths better than Twice An Angel. Brett MacDonald drove the seven-year-old Mach Three mare.
To view Saturday's harness racing results, click the following link: Saturday Results – Flamboro Downs.