With the $75,000 Final of the Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park Late Closing event for mares on tap for Super Saturday night in South Florida, drivers and trainers have chimed in with their thoughts on the big event. Please note that #6, Mach It A Par, scheduled to be driven by Tim Tetrick, has been scratched due to illness.
Here are some of their comments:
Post #1-Strut My Stuff (12/1), Driver Matt Romano: “She actually raced very well last week. Yes, Mike’s mare (Just A Bee) picked up the pieces late, but we were just a length or so away from second. We drew well–and that helps in an event like this–and I expect her to bring her ‘A’ game and be aggressive leaving.”
Post #2-Totally Rusty (10/1), Driver Tom Jackson: “She cut some serious fractions in her last and they got to her late. Still she is a very sharp mare and, if she returns to the form when she won the first leg three weeks ago, she’ll be prominent.”
Post #3-Lucy’s Pearl (8/1), Driver David Miller: “I have never driven this mare before but have seen her race many times. She’s very talented and has a nice brush. If the fractions are right, she could be right there at the finish with them all. I expect the mile to go in (1):50 and a piece and she’s capable of that. Of course, so are the others! It should be very interesting.”
Post #4-Pertty Music (15/1), Driver Kevin Wallis: Hopefully, she’ll get a better trip than last week when she never saw the inside part of the racetrack. She can turn it on in the lane, especially off of an easier trip if we find some room in the stretch. She drew OK with a lot of great mares to her outside. That always helps!”
Post #5-Velocity Vespa (5/2), Trainer Chris Oakes: She was roughed up pretty much last week but came out of it just...
We wanted you to know it’s been a frustrating past two weeks for Justgottogetthere at Buffalo Raceway with a pair of solid but disappointing second place finishes. But that annoyance was erased on Friday night (March 4) as Justgottogetthere posted a convincing 2-3/4 length victory over Winkys Pride in the featured $8,200 trot.
Leave Your Mark (Jim Morrill Jr.) set the fractions through the opening three stations with times of 29.4, 1:00.0 and 1:29.0.Justgottogetthere, in the meantime, began his first over journey just before the half mile and eventually got on even terms with the pace-setter with a quarter mile to race.
In the drive to the wire, driver Jim McNeight gave Justgottogetthere some minor encouragement and he responded to draw away for the popular $4.10 win in 1:59.3. Winkys Pride (Denny Bucceri) came on late for second place with Kahoku (Truman Gale) taking third.
Co-owned by Antonietta Landi and North Creek Racing, the 7-year-gelded Justgottogetthere (Valley Victory-Mara’s Theme) scored his initial win of 2016 after four previous appearances. Trained by Jerry Nugent Jr., Justgottogetthere has won $8,660 this year and $211,534 lifetime.
Morrill Jr. registered four victories in the bike while Gale doubled. Trainer JD Perrin remained red hot as he conditioned three winners.
Racing will continue on Saturday night with an 11-race program set to go to the post at 6 p.m.
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