Facing the toughest field she’d ever encountered, Metro Ville erased a nine length deficit and pulled off a 19-1 shocker in Friday’s $22,500 Filly & Mare Preferred Handicap Pace at The Meadows
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Metro Ville earned her way out of non-winners-life races with her most recent victory, but seemed to be overreaching with a spot in the Preferred Handicap. Yet when Tony Hall moved her before the three-quarters, she kept on advancing, caught the leader Cams Van Go in mid-stretch, and triumphed in 1:51.1, fastest this year by a four-year-old mare on a five-eighths-mile track. Cams Van Go, who saw her four-race winning streak snapped, was a neck back in second, with Tremor Hanover third.
Kenneth Miller trains the daughter of Metropolitan-Sweet Angel Eyes and owns with Justin Pirillo.
(The Meadows)