It was deja vu all over again in the Tuesday, February 28 feature at Dover Downs. In a near recreation of last week’s meeting, Barbaras Shadow beat Dismissal, still the odds-on public choice, to the finish line in the $15,000 Mares Four and Five-Year-Old Pace to score her second win in a row.
Vic Kirby left fastest with Barbaras Shadow then yielded to Dismissal and Yannick Gingras, as had happened the previous Tuesday. Gingras controlled the pace as Dismissal held off a brief encounter with On Your Six (driven by George Dennis) at the three quarters with Barbaras Shadow remaining in the garden spot. Turning for home on the straightaway, Kirby pulled his Shadow Play-Bababababarbarapan four-year-old quickly to the outside to engage Dismissal for several steps then rush past to post a 1:51.4 victory by a neck amid a light shower.
Kirby, trainer Leigh Raymer and Brian Offfecker own the winner of five of eight races this year with a second and a third earning $44,922 and $80,136 lifetime. In The Shadows (Tony Morgan) picked up third money.
(With files from Dover Downs)