Popular pacing mare Southwind Prairie is set to bid adieu to the racetrack when she makes her final career start in Race 10 on Wednesday, November 30 at Batavia Downs
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The Bettors Delight--Prettytrickynikki seven-year-old mare has 145 starts under her belt with a record of 23 wins, 21 seconds, 31 thirds and lifetime earnings of $285,561. Southwind Prairie took her 1:54.2 mark as a three-year-old at Northfield Park.
Her career highlight came when she won a $113,505 New York Sire Stakes event for three-year-old fillies at Monticello with Greg Grismore in the bike for trainer Andy Rickert. She also won the Patsy C. Rapone Memorial at two for trainer/driver Steve Schoeffel.
She’s owned by Virginia and Kathy Schoeffel along with Roger Romesser and Jim Reuther.
Plans are to breed Southwind Prairie to Real Artist, who stands in Pennsylvania.
(Batavia Downs)