Munis Blue Chip, a two-year-old trotting filly by Credit Winner-Hustle N Muscle, went wire-to-wire in 2:00.2, to win a division of the $22,077 NYSS two-year-old trotting filly event at Buffalo Raceway on Friday, July 24
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The winning time is a new track record, which eclipses the old record set by Winning Appeal in 2006, by one-fifth of a second.
Trained and owned by Ray Schnittker, along with partners Steven Arnold, Jerry Silva, and Blue Chip Bloodstock, Munis Blue Chip ($9.50) set fractions of :30.4, 1:00.1 and 1:30.3. A :29.4 last quarter-mile put the winner six lengths ahead of second place finisher and the favourite in the race, Madam Hooch and driver Mike Simons. Windemerealfiredup (Wally Hennessey) came in third.
“Her mother (Hustle N Muscle) was a killer on the track,” said Schnittker. “We bought her in Kentucky for $140,000 at the Tattersalls Standardbred sale. That’s the biggest win price she’ll ever pay in New York, she’s a killer, just like her mother."
Another popular winner Friday night was the hometown favourite, Tuesdays With Mom ($3.10), who has now won two Sire Stakes races in a row to remain undefeated. The Credit Winner-Princess Deanna offspring also went wire-to-wire in 2:07.2 for owner/trainer Peter Arrigenna.
Capably driven by Wally Hennessey, Tuesdays With Mom set fractions of :32.2, 1:03.4 and 1:37.1 to the three-quarter mark. Finishing second were Reena and reinsman Trond Smedshammer, while Somersault (Ray Schnittker) came in third.
The name, Tuesdays With Mom, came about when Peter’s wife Pam would visit her mother, the late Phyllis Dougherty, every Tuesday to make her dinner and watch after her.
The other Sire Stakes winners were, Show Your Lindys (Torgeir Hagmann) in 2:06.1, Dreama Littledream (Gates Brunet) in 2:01.2, Sweetspellosuccess (Trond Smedshammer) in 2:05.4, and Dws QT Petootie (Kevin Cummings) in 2:09.3.
(Buffalo Raceway)