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Case wins return aboard 1-9 favorite at Plainridge

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November 21, 2008

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Climbing back into the sulky for the first time in 65 months, Walter Case Jr returned a winner Friday afternoon at Plainridge Racecourse, scoring a victory in the track's first race on the card with the 2-year-old pacing filly Lady Wyvern.

Case, who had not driven since June 22, 2003, when he won at Rockingham Park, was recently released from an Ohio prison where he served slightly more than four years of a five-year sentence for felonious assault for stabbing his estranged wife. He applied for and then was granted a Massachusetts state racing license and was listed to drive in five of Plainridge's seven races on the Friday card.

In his first race back, Case was behind the overwhelming 1-9 favorite, Lady Wyvern, who was coming off a victory at Prairie Meadows in her only previous career start. Leaving from the outside post six in the six-horse field, Case dropped in third with Lady Wyvern out of the gate, pulled first-over past the three-eighths, and then took the lead for good approaching three quarters. Under little urging Lady Wyvern drew clear to win by open lengths in 1:58.3.

Case won in his second drive as well as he directed the 9-year-old gelding pacer Bells Pond Road to a 1:58.3 victory as the 6-5 choice. Case's brother, Tim, is the trainer of the son of On The Road Again. He later had a third-place finish with Bad Kat, a second-place finish with Down The River, and a second-place finish with Jamie My Boy. His final slate for the day was 5-2-2-1.

With his pair of winner's circle trips on Friday, Case currently stands fifth on harness racing's all-time win list with 11,030 victories.

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