Adios entries close Monday; competitive group expected

A sizable group of extremely competitive three-year-old pacing colts and geldings are expected to drop in the entry box for the upcoming $450,000 Coors Delvin Miller Adios at the Meadows.
 
Entries close at 9 a.m. on Monday, August 6, and the draw for post positions will be held Monday evening at 5 p.m., televised live on the Meadows Racing Network.
 
Among the standout sophomore expected are Meadowlands Pace winner Southwind Lynx, who sizzled to a 1:48.3 score in his division of the Oliver Wendell Holmes yesterday at the Big M; Always A Virgin, who won the other Holmes split in 1:49.1; North America Cup victor Tell All; Hoosier Cup winner Artriverderci; Hoosier Cup runner-up Kinetic Yankee from the barn of Erv Miller, who won last year's Adios with Cactus Creek; and North America Cup runner-up Sutter Hanover.
 
Watta Hotshot, second Saturday in the Holmes and a recent addition to Mickey Burke's barn, heads a list of several hopefuls for the veteran Meadows trainer. Others Burke is strongly considering include May June Character, a winner in 1:53 in Pennsylvania Sires Stakes action at The Meadows on Saturday, and Won the West, second in a 1:51.4 PaSS mile Saturday.
 
The 41st edition of the Adios will be contested on Saturday, Aug. 11, when the track concludes its Grand Circuit week with a doubleheader card. Post times are 12 noon and 7 p.m. The Adios will share the afternoon card with the $150,000 Adioo Volo for 3-year-old pacing fillies and the $100,000 Gov. David L. Lawrence for freshman pacing colts.
 
Adios Day marks the end of an era - and the beginning of a new. Live racing will go on a two-month break after August 11, as the 44-year-old grandstand comes down and construction begins on the new racino. (The Meadows)

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