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Hippodrome 3R hosted the opening round of the Future Stars Series for two-year-old trotters on Friday afternoon (July 22) featuring two $10,000 divisions -- one for the colts and one for the fillies -- both won by driver Stephane Brosseau.
Many of her rivals will be in action during the SBOA eliminations at Woodbine Mohawk Park, but O'Brien Award winner Prohibition Legal instead made an appearance during the Friday (May 13) qualifiers this morning.
With a win last week, Keep Rockin A put herself in position to advance to the April 25 final of the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series for older female pacers at Yonkers Raceway. But the six-year-old mare needs to keep rockin’ on Friday (April 15).
Quebec-owned and bred pacing mare Lit De Rose, racing with Lasix for the first time, angled off the pylons in early stretch and rallied furiously to get by favoured Easy To Please in the first of three $40,000 divisions in round four of the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series on Friday night (April 8) at Yonkers Raceway.
As impressive as Lit De Rose was in defeat in her first start of the year at Woodbine Mohawk Park on July 2, she was even more impressive in Friday’s follow-up performance in the $30,000 Fillies & Mares Preferred Handicap. An O’Brien Award finalist last season, Lit De Rose landed in the four-hole early while Marloe Hanover charged to the lead and whacked out first-half fractions of :26.4 and :56. Roy had Lit De Rose first-over in the backstretch, and they were alongside Marloe Hanover at the three-quarter pole in 1:23.4. From there, Lit De Rose used a final quarter kick of :27 to win by ...