Dylan The Great equalled the track record for four-year-old gelding trotters at Miami Valley Raceway on Monday afternoon (March 9) when he won a $16,000 top-conditioned race in 1:54.1. The mark was originally established by Another Breath in April of 2017.
Josh Sutton was content to allow Insomniac (Brady Galliers), a notoriously fast front-end specialist, to cut the early fractions of :28, :56.3 and 1:24 before reeling him in through the lane for the impressive triumph. Steel Reserve (Tyler Smith) grabbed the show dough.
Dylan The Great, a son of Ohio sire Break The Bank K, banked $101,462 as a sophomore and now has one win, one second and one third in three starts to commence his 2020 campaign. He is owned by Burke Racing Stable LLC, Larry Karr, Jandt Silva Purnell & Libb and Weaver Bruscemi LLC.
Racing resumes Tuesday with a 2:05 p.m. matinee at Miami Valley. Features will be a $25,000 Open Trot, the $25,000 championship of the Ray Paver Sr. Memorial Series, a mid-range $12,000 condition event raced at 1-1/4 miles, and a 5/8ths mile dash for $8,000 claimers.
(Miami Valley Raceway)