Axios captured his second straight series win, and fourth consecutive victory overall, in Monday’s TSM Photo Bugger Trot at The Meadows.
Frost Free Hanover and Jett Star also took $17,500 divisions in the event for three-year-old colt and gelding trotters. The series championship is set for Monday, April 21.
Axios quarter-poled to the lead for Wilbur Yoder and held off the late challenge of the first-over Son Of A Ridge to defeat him by half a length in 1:59.2 on a “good” surface. Hawaiian Phyr was third.
Rich Gillock trains Axios, a Malabar Millennium-P Town Girl gelding, and owns with Barbara Richardson.
In the $20,000 Filly & Mare Not Listed Preferred/Preferred Handicap Pace, Foxy Lady also stretched her winning streak to four with a facile front-end victory in 1:52.2 over Doubelieveinmagic and Certified Ideal.
Dave Palone, who had four winners on the card, guided the pacer to victory for trainer Ron Burke and owners Burke Racing Stable LLC, Weaver Bruscemi LLC, JJK Stables and Phillip Collura. The six-year-old daughter of Real Desire-Judy Is A Fox, Foxy Lady pushed her career bankroll to $720,122.
(The Meadows)