Western Conquest won in a season's-best performance in Buffalo Raceway's featured $11,500 Open Pace on Saturday, June 2, squeezing to the front by a nose at the wire to post the $14.00 victory.
Focus Power cut the fractions, with splits of :27.3, :56.1 and 1:25.2. Western Conquest was first over and went eyeball-to-eyeball with Focus Power in the final quarter of a mile and just managed to get a nostril in front at the line. Im So Handsome took the show position.
Owned by the Tanah Merah Farms LLC and trained by Ryan Swift, it was the fourth victory in eight starts for Western Conquest, by American Ideal-Aries Conquest. The seven-year-old has now jacked his seasonal earnings to $20,490 and $279,081 in his career.
Racing will resume on Wednesday, June 6 at 5 p.m. with a 12-race card scheduled. The New York Sire Stakes will make its first appearance of the 2018 season at Buffalo Raceway with the three-year-old colt and gelding trotters headlining the program. There will also be action in the Excelsior A and B Series as well.
(With files from Buffalo Raceway)