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Facing stakes company for the first time, Saint Louie backed down the field like a seasoned pro, held off the 1-2 favourite and scored in Saturday’s (June 3) Pennsylvania Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Father Stosh and Spitfire Oversees also captured divisions of the $142,946 event, known as the Hickory Smoke, for three-year-old colt and gelding trotters.
The co-features on Friday (May 12) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows turned out to be showcases for longshots, with one taking a new lifetime mark nearly five seconds better than his previous record.
At a track where he set world records for two-year-old and three-year-old trotting colts that still stand nine and eight years later, it seems appropriate that sons of Father Patrick would win four stakes events where driver Tim Tetrick guided both $75,061 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes winners, both sons of by Father Patrick, on Sunday night (Aug. 14) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Austral Hanover, whose connections feared that he would never make it as a racehorse, took another step forward in his development Friday when he captured a division of a $40,000 Arden Downs Grand Circuit stakes at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
Crantini idled while the field settled, then powered to the point and drew off late to keep his two-race career unblemished in Wednesday’s (July 13) $152,430 Pennsylvania Sire Stake at The Meadows. Kenobi captured the other split in the event, known as the Hickory Pride, for freshmen trotting colts and geldings.