The Saturday night (June 18) card at Running Aces featured the Summit Pace and the Summit Trot. A very large and enthusiastic crowd attended the kickoff to the track's Summit Father’s Day Weekend.
The featured seventh race Summit Pace went to Make Three Wishes ($13.40), a five-year-old mare by Brandons Cowboy, trained by Justin Currie and owned by Paul Sanders of Surrey, B.C., with Nick Roland steering her to victory in 1:53.4.
The Summit Trot in race six went to favourite Wheres The Clicker ($4.80) with Dean Magee aboard, for trainer Tim Roach and Michigan owner Kyle Larner, in 1:56.3. The win was this year for the son of Angus Hall.
There were two divisions of the $15,000 Minnesota-sired three-year-old pacers in action on Saturday, divided into two groups, A and B, and it was Freedom Reigns (Tim Maier), who will most certainly graduate to group A next time out after posting his third consecutive sharp winning mile in the $6,000 B group, another life’s mark of 1:54.4. The gelding by Up Front Brad is owned by Janice Molgaard and Nancy Jenson, and trained by Brady Jenson. He paid $2.80 as the heavy favourite.
The $9,000 A group went to the filly Cruzin Coco, (by Voracious Hanover), who posted her fourth win in five starts this year and a new lifetime mark of 1:54.3 with Steve Wiseman aboard. The razor-sharp filly is owned by Ron Emerson and Mark Holtan, and trained by Joel McDanel. The three fillies in the field took not only first, but also third (Dag Inmy Stockings) and fourth (Fancy Little Girl) against the four geldings.
The 50-cent Jackpot Pick-6 wager was hit on Saturday, with one lucky patron correctly selecting the sequence of 7-3-4-1-4-4 in races four through nine, to take down the entire jackpot of $13,520.15.
(With files from Running Aces)