Lovebeinglucky waited patiently in the pocket, then poured through the Lightning Lane to score in a stake-fastest — and career best — 1:58.2 in Monday’s $100,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series stake at The Meadows.
The event for freshman filly trotters was contested over five divisions, with Seaside Breeze, Miss Da Line, Tequila Sunrise AS and Decadence also taking $20,000 splits. Trainer Jonas Czernyson enjoyed a stake double with Seaside Breeze and Decadence.
Lovebeinglucky has raced an unusual schedule that includes fair stakes, PA Sires stakes and an Arden Downs affair in addition to stallion series events. Her best shot for a championship is in the PA Fairs, where she currently ranks eighth in points.
“You have to put them where you think they can do the best,” said trainer/driver Rick Beinhauer who, with Regina Beinhauer, owns and bred the daughter of Lucky Chucky-Tahiti Springs. “She’s a nice filly, not a great filly, but she likes the half-mile tracks. She’s set three track records at the fairs this year.”
In Monday’s stake, she followed the front-ending All Set Lets Go before blowing by in the stretch and holding off the rallying Havanna Bar. All Set Lets Go saved show.
Seaside Breeze hadn’t been on the lead at any point in her three previous outings, but in her stallion series debut, she zipped to the front. That, reported winning driver Eric Goodell, was no mean feat.
“She’s a little tough to handle going to the gate — she’s just a bully,” Goodell said. “She’s really nervous and anxious and has to learn how to quiet herself a little bit. But she has some go, has some speed, and she wants to do it.”
Seaside Breeze broke her maiden in 1:58.3, 1-3/4 lengths better than Its Hallright, with EZ Passer third. Thomas Dillon campaigns the daughter of Donato Hanover-Seaside.
Miss Da Line used a determined first-over move to nail the leader, Lima Skye, in the stretch and down her by 1-1/2 lengths in 1:59.1. Ophelia completed the ticket. The daughter of Muscle Massive-Sister Kate, who was troubled by breaks at the outset of her career, now has won both her starts since adding hopples.
“I don’t know why she was breaking,” said Ray Paver, who trains and drives the homebred Miss Da Line for owners Harry and Iris Horowitz. “I trained her down all year, and you couldn’t make her make a break. So I threw the hopples on last week, and it seemed to help.”
Tuesday’s card at The Meadows features the Delmonica Hanover, a $188,756 PA Sires Stake for two-year-old filly trotters. First post is 1 p.m.
(The Meadows)