Sweet Like Candy and trainer-driver Serge Masse swept the elimination and $15,000 final of the Penny Bath Memorial for three-year-old pacing fillies that are B.C owned, bred or sired at Fraser Downs on Good Friday.
The American Ideal-Ali Badali filly swept around early leader Judys Lass after the :28.2 opening panel and cruised through middle fractions of :58.2 and 1:28.3. Judys Lass, driven by four-time Friday winner Jim Marino, pulled the pocket down the lane, but fell a half length short at the wire as Sweet Like Candy earned her first stakes title. The winning time was 1:58.3. Longshot Alices Wonderland and Michael Hennessy finished two and a half lengths behind in third.
Sweet Like Candy paid $2.80 to win as the 4-5 favourite.
She has earned half of her six career wins this year to push her bankroll to nearly $32,000 for owners Lucy Raymond of Surrey, B.C. and Roger McDow of Las Vegas, Nevada. Lifetime,
Sweet Like Candy's stablemate and last year's Penny Bath Memorial champion Phone Terror ($4.20) was also a winner on the Friday card. Masse steered the four-year-old Western Terror-Miss Lex mare to a season's best 1:54 triumph one race earlier in the week's top fillies and mares feature over Just Fiction and Prairie Illusion. Masse trains and co-owns Phone Terror, who has finished first or second in six of her seven starts this season, with Melissa and Claudine Masse.
To view Friday's harness racing results, click on the following link: Friday Results - Fraser Downs.