Race-favourite Moonlight Cocktail and longshot Bro Hanover came through with victories in the Tuesday, Feb. 6 Dover Downs features.
Moonlight Cocktail, owned by the Kadabra-Angostura four-year-old’s co-owners Richard Gutnick and TLP Stable, recorded a 1:53.2 lifetime best in the $12,000 Winners-Over Trot with Tony Morgan in the bike. Soda Pump was second, with Honor And Serve third.
Sean Bier shot Bro Hanover onto the lead in the backstretch and then pulled away for a 1:53.3 career mark in the $12,000 Winners-Over Pace. Crissy Crissman-Bier owns and trains the four-year-old gelded son of Somebeachsomewhere-Burning Point. Takeittotheface finished second in front of BT’s Breeze.
Three starters: Divas Image, Shartin N and Terror At Night – all with win streaks live – lead an eight-horse field in the $25,000 Mares Open Handicap on Wednesday, Feb. 7.
Last week Corey Callahan drove Ed Maas, Arlene Paisley and Nanticoke Racing's Terror At Night to a convincing victory in the distaff feature.
Our Hrs Cents, Stable 45 and J&T Silva stable’s Divas Image has four straight victories to her credit with Tony Morgan handling the reins.
Meanwhile Shartin N, a recent addition to the Rich Pollucci and JoAnn Looney-King barn, has been perfect in his two North American starts with Tim Tetrick at the controls.
Also in the field are Gary Ewing's Sweet Robbie, with driver Art Stafford Jr., last season's Horse of the Meet Enhance Your Mind, driven by Victor Kirby, Scandalicious, piloted by Jonathan Roberts for owner JFE Enterprise and Hold it Hanover, driven by Eddie Davis Jr. for owner Claim To Fame Stables.
In the $15,000 Mares Winners-Over Pace, owner-trainer-driver Vince Copeland’s Goin Again, Bill Cantrell’s Lil Miss Gorgeous and Bryan Truitt’s Moments Of Joy seek to extend win streaks.
Use Your Noodle, owned by Feeney, Johnson, Henry Faragalli III and Nanticoke Racing, and Duneside Chella lead nine to post in a $13,000 Mares Pace.
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(With files from Dover Downs)