We thought our IdaBet players would want to know that a pair of $15,000 co-featured events quite literally serve as the centerpiece of a 12-race Friday (March 25) evening program at The Meadowlands, and leading trainer Ron Burke starts a top contender in each.
In the sixth event, a top-level conditioned pace for fillies and mares, the Burke stable’s 19-time winner Sayitall BB will once again battle with Clear View Hanover, among eight others. Sayitall BB rises off a pillar-to-post 1:51.2 victory in which she held clear of pocket rival Clear View Hanover via a sharp :27.2 closing split. Joe Bongiorno once again handles the driving duties of the 5-year-old Tell All mare, and they will start from post 3 as the lukewarm 7-2 morning line favorite. Clear View Hanover–a winner at this level twice in her last five races–drew one position to her inside as the 9-2 second choice, and Hall of Fame driver David Miller will take the lines of the Henrik Lundell trainee.
The night’s top distaff serves as the payoff leg of the Early Pick 4, which carries a $25,000 guaranteed pool.
Just twenty minutes later, the $50,000 Late Pick 4 commences in the seventh event, a top-level conditioned trot with no shortage of talent. Burke trainee Its Huw You Know enters this race off back-to-back wins, most recently making much of the pace in a 1:55.2 Pocono triumph. David Miller is slated to the 8-time winner from post 6 as the 7-2 second choice.
Among those to square off against Its Huw You Know is B Yoyo (3-1 morning line favorite), who won at this level in mid-February before a pair of unsuccessful efforts in Open events. Bongiorno drives the 17-time winner for trainer Richard Johnson from post 4.
Of note, four of the other six in the featured trot enter this race off winning efforts, including Mr Lover (Andy McCarthy, post 1), Dreams of...
