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1:52.2 world record by Enough Talk in Classic Trot

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April 08, 2008

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Artistic Fella won his first start of the season, My Little Dragon handed Southwind Tempo her first setback of the season, Enough Talk pulled off an upset, and Buck I St Pat rolled on in $85,000 Classic Series openers on a chilly Monday, April 7, at Dover Downs.

Tim Tetrick won four races and one of his victories featured a track record-setting performance by Buck I St Pat, who scored in 1:53 by open lengths. The clocking was just one-fifth of a second off the world record.

Buck I St Pat, a 5-year-old mare, went right to the front and never was headed in scoring her fourth victory of the year for owners Howard Taylor, Ed Gold, Abe Basen and Ron Fuller.

While setting the winning fractions, Tetrick and the daughter of Jailhouse Jesse kept runner-up Snazzy Millie and John Campbell a length back. Brigham Dream challenged first-over, but was never a serious threat and eventually broke stride coming off the last turn.

In the $85,000 Pacing Classic, Artistic Fella followed the cover of Manhardt and George Brennan, then tested front-pacing Total Truth and Brian Sears from the clubhouse turn until turning for home. That's when Tetrick unleashed the Pacific Fella 5-year-old and his wide, closing kick took him to a 1:50.3 victory.

It was the 2007 Breeders Crown winner's first start off a 1:55 qualifying race at Spring Garden Ranch in Florida. Counting back to last Fall, the Steve Elliott-trained Artistic Fella has now won his last four races in a row for owner Joe Alborano.

Veteran Casimir Camotion rolled down the lane to finish second for Ron Pierce while Mr Feelgood and Andy Miller were the show finishers after riding in the pocket spot for the entire mile.

Brian Sears and My Little Dragon held their position at the pylons as the wings of the gate folded and kept Southwind Tempo parked in a :26 first quarter in the Classic for pacing mares. That strategy paid off for Sears as My Little Dragon popped out of the pocket in the homestretch and paced past Southwind Tempo for a 1:51.3 score.

After all three of her previous starts this year, Southwind Tempo held on for second with her entrymate Benear and Cat Manzi closing for third.

Adam Victor & Son own My Little Dragon, now a winner of nearly $1.6 million in purses.

The biggest surprise on the super-fast program came in the $85,000 Trotting Classic where 6-1 Enough Talk, a recent purchase by Peter Kleinhans Racing Inc., could not be caught in a 1:52.2 effort. That clocking lowered the world record for an older trotting gelding on a five-eighths-mile track, breaking the old standard of 1:53.1 held by Woody Woodrow.

American Lane with Cat Manzi was the second-place finisher in front of Green Day and Tim Tetrick.

Race favorite Vivid Photo got away near the back in the 10-horse field. Roger Hammer took the Hambletonian and Trotting Classic champion to the outside, but Vivid Photo weakened on the backstretch and finished off the board for one of the rare times in his career.

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