Candy Is Dandy, a four-year-old Revenue S mare, beat a full field of the best Open trotters in Minnesota on Wednesday night, lowering her own divisional track record for older females at Running Aces
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Driver Rick Magee let the relatively green trotting mare settle in third from her inside starting position and shadowed favoured Rompaway Brandon (Dan Maier) and longshot Vyce (Evan Coblentz) until the top of the stretch.
Cruising through fractions of :28.1, :58 and 1:27.4, the winner was content to wait for the inside passing lane with less than an eighth of a mile to go. At that point, Candy Is Dandy was yanked to the left after passing the last pylon and although it was just her 21st lifetime start, she responded like a veteran who had done it a million times, zooming past the pair of front-runners for a 1:57.3 score.
Trainer Ulf Johansen co-owns ‘Candy’ with his wife Susan.
Driver Lemoyne Svendsen shared the spotlight by recording three wins on the nine-race program. After sweeping the early daily double with trotter Greenback and pacer Minnesofia, “Moonie” captured the nightcap with pacer Saabs Sibling A.
Little Tootsie returned to her winning ways in a $6,500 Open Mares Pace, winning in 1:54 flat for leading driver Dean Magee. Although the four-year-old Minnesota-sired mare was narrowly defeated last week, she has now won four out of five starts against the best distaffers racing at Running Aces. Castle Oaks (Dan Maier) was just a neck back at the wire with Dawns Mist (Will Roland) garnering the show dough.
(Running Aces)