Rosemary Rose let Touchamatic do the heavy lifting in the slop, then roared by her in the lane to score a decisive victory—her fifth in her last seven starts—in the $18,000 Filly & Mare Open Handicap Pace on Wednesday, July 17.
Rosemary Rose yielded the early lead to Touchamatic, who had to go a :26.2 opening panel to make the front. Driver Dave Palone moved Rosemary Rose outside in the stretch to defeat Touchamatic by 1-3/4 lengths in a career-best 1:50.3. Keystone Riptide finished third.
Ron Burke trains the five-year-old daughter of Foreclosure N-Pantathlon, who now boasts $496,867 in career earnings, for Burke Racing Stable, Jason Melillo and Weaver Bruscemi LLC.
Aaron Merriman and Mike Wilder each piloted three winners on the 14-race card.
Live racing at The Meadows resumes Saturday, July 20 when the card features three eliminations of the $475,000 Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids as well as a pair of stakes for freshman filly pacers and a $4,051.60 carryover in the final-race Super Hi-5. First post is 1:05 p.m.
(The Meadows)