For the second day-in-a-row at Dover Downs, a pacer trained by Josh Green took home bragging rights
in the feature race.
On Monday, Summer Camp recovered from an early miscue to take home top prize in the $35,000 Preferred Pace, and on Tuesday it was stablemate Perfect M Forever coming up aces in the $26,000 Mares Open Pace.
The white-hot, six-year-old daughter of Stand Forever-Perfect Model was handicapped with Post 8 in the eight-mare affair, and not even that could interrupt a winning streak that now stands at four-in-a-row.
Eric Goodell left enough to tuck into the four hole in the early stages of the mile with Perfect M Forever, who watched High Speed Life and Alices Restaurant exchanges glares to the quarter pole in :27.2 before the latter cleared to the position of command. Boots Place shot out of third as the field swept in front of the grandstand, and in a matter of strides she became the new leader. Hot on her heels, however, was Goodell and Perfect M Forever.
Boots Place led to the half in a rated clip of :57 seconds, but she was overtaken across the backstretch by Perfect M Forever. She rolled the field past the three-quarter pole in 1:25, and finished off the competition with a :28-second final frame en route to the 1-3/4 length decision in 1:53. Mystra made late gains and came on to grab the runner-up award, with Higher And Higher rounding out the top three finishers.
KSJ Stables LLP of Xenia, OH own the distaffer, who improved her 2011 record to 4-1-0 in seven starts with the victory. The 38-time winner, who was a $7,000 purchase from the 2006 Ohio Select Sale, has now banked more than $439,000 in her career.