After two straight weeks of seeing the three-year-old male pacers and trotters compete in New York Sire Stakes action, the ladies will get their chance at Buffalo Raceway this Wednesday night (June 19).
There will be two divisions for the sophomore filly pacers. Each division will carry a purse of $57,000 (approx.) that will make up the early daily double on the 12-race card. The program will get started at 5 p.m. Besides a nice pay day, they'll be gunning for the track record of 1:53.3 established in 2015 by Mosquito Blue Chip.
Also, driver Tyler Buter will return, and he will again try to make Buffalo Raceway his personal playground on Wednesday nights. He's made 18 starts at the Hamburg half-mile oval and has won six of them, steering his drives to $117,896 in purses in the process.
Each bracket has a competitor who had a stellar two-year-old campaign.
The first division will feature Prescient Beauty who put $444,668 in the bank in 2018. She was a winner of the $391,250 Three Diamonds at the Meadowlands Racetrack in 1:50.3 and recorded a third-place finish in the $600,000 Breeders Crown at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, where she lost by just a half length.
It's been a slow start for the Gregg McNair trainee thus far in 2019, as Prescient Beauty (Art Major-Precious Beauty) has yet to hit the board in two starts. Doug McNair will guide her from the four post and has been tabbed the 7-5 morning line choice.
Buter will drive Brooklyn Lilacs (Rock N Roll Heaven-Sombodythatiustorio) from the five post and is the second early choice at 4-1.
Brooklyn Lilacs, trained by Jennifer Bongiorno, took a $85,250 leg of the New York Sires Stakes on May 14 at Yonkers Raceway with a 1:55.2 effort. After having been scratched ‘sick’ out of a race at Yonkers on May 18, Brooklyn Lilacs has had two tries since then in the sire stakes and mustered a third-place finish on June 10 at Tioga Downs.
The rest of the field will include Crazy Cute (Ray Fisher Jr.), Heavens Challenge (Jim Morrill Jr.) and JK American Beauty (Matt Kakaley).
So Awesome (So Surreal-Teddy Ballgirl) is the headliner in the second division. With $278,321 in career earnings from just 14 starts, So Awesome will get the services of Buter out of the four hole at 4-1.
Winless in five tries thus far in 2019, So Awesome has been close however in sire stakes races with a pair of second-place finishes and a third.
The favourite at 2-1 is DD Delicious (Art Major-D D Delightful), who'll score from the two post with Matt Kakaley in the bike.
D D Delicious, who was unraced as a two-year-old, has been in the money in all five her outings this season, which includes a head win over So Awesome in 1:54.1 at Tioga on June 10 in her last attempt.
The remainder of the lineup will include Meghan Lynn (Morrill Jr.), Boogie Roll (Drew Monti), Hurrikane Norakane (McNair) and Feel Me Again (Billy Davis Jr.).
There will be a $15,000 Excelsior ‘A’ Series race and one in the $6,600 Excelsior ‘B’ classification.
(Buffalo Raceway)