Crystal Fashion sat behind pacesetter Big Oil, moved out midway on the far turn, and trotted right away from the rest of the field to win the $16,200 feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia in 1:52.4 on Thursday afternoon (July 8) and give driver Tim Tetrick one of seven wins on the card.
Big Oil, a world champion and winner of three of his last four, cleared Crystal Fashion in a :26.4 first quarter before rating a :56.4 half. After sitting second through three-quarters in 1:24.4, Tetrick knew his horse was full of forward motion, so he pulled him out, and the pair stormed into the lead coming into the stretch. Big Oil lasted for second, 4-1/4 lengths behind the victorious Cantab Hall gelding, who lifted his lifetime earnings to $2,045,318 for trainer Jim Campbell and Fashion Farms LLC.
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Large purses are again for the taking at The Meadowlands, with this Saturday’s (May 15) program highlighted by a pair of Graduate preliminaries and the $141,250 Arthur J. Cutler Memorial.
The Cutler Memorial, the second high-prize trot on the calendar, drew a stacked field of 10 mixed with heavy hitters of yester season and those trying to break through into the big leagues.
Forbidden Trade, the 2019 Hambletonian winner, makes his first start since Aug. 2020. The now five-year-old stallion by Kadabra scratched from the John Cashman Jr. Memorial last season before sustaining an injury that sidelined him the rest of the year. Driver Bob McClure reunites with the millionaire Luc Blais trainee wide of all his competition from post 10.
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