The Saturday evening (June 29) harness racing program at Running Aces was highlighted by a track-record performance from Urgointohearmeroar (Mooney Svendsen), who dominated a $7,000 conditioned pace and stopped the timer in 1:50.4 to register a new track record for four-year-old geldings.
The clocking also equalled the fastest time ever at Running Aces, a distinction he now currently holds with Six Gun, Trashytoungetalker and Holdingallthecards.
After getting away from the gate in fifth, Svendsen sent his charge first-over and swept to the lead near the three-eighths marker. Once on the lead, Urgointohearmeroar ($4.40) was never in doubt, keeping early leader Skim The Top (Don Harmon) at bay in the pocket, and powering home in a :55 final halfto score a 1-3/4 length tally over Skim The Top and Marktentwentyseven (Dean Magee), who was 8-3/4 lengths back at the wire.
Urgointohearmeroar is by Mystery Chase and out of the Jennas Beach Boy mare Unconditional. He has now won 15 of 19 career races for owner-trainer Mark Anderson, who nominated him to the 2019 Dan Patch Free-For-All Pace in July.
The $13,800 featured event on Saturday was the three-year-old Minnesota-sired “Class A” pacing event, with a talented field of seven contenders. The race delivered an exciting stretch battle that had all of the contestants in hot pursuit of front-runner Stay Humble N Kind (Gerald Longo), who benefitted from a :30.3 breather in the second quarter to have plenty left in the tank to, hold off four challengers and score a third straight victory by a head in 1:54.3. Windmeupnwatchmego (Dean Magee) just missed a fourth straight win, while SB Bodacious (Rick Magee) was only beaten a half length in third. Stay Humble N Kind is also owned and trained by Gerald Longo, and returned $8.60 to win.
In The $9,200 Minnesota-sired “Class B” pace, The Boss Wife ($7.20) captured her first lifetime win. With an aggressive drive by her trainer Nick Roland, she dominated the affair with a gate-to-wire tally in 1:58. The three-year-old filly by Voracious Hanover showed a tremendous improvement while third in her last outing, and followed that up with a one-length victory for owners Cathy Dessert and Set The Pace Racing LLC.
Drivers Mooney Svendsen, Dean Magee and Steve Wiseman all turned in doubles on the Saturday card.
Live racing returns to Running Aces on Sunday (June 30), with first post at 6 p.m.
(Running Aces)