Distaff to Moving Pictures

June 16, 2007

Moving Pictures, locked in along the pylons half way down the stretch, found room late to the outside and overtook Vysoke Tatry just before the wire and captured the $265,350 ( C ) Classic Distaff in 2:37 over 1 3/8 miles at Mohawk Raceway Saturday night. To Helen Back was third.

Moving Pictures and Mark MacDonald led the field past the opening quarter in :28.3 and the half in :58.3 before Invitro and Paul MacDonell swooped into the lead on the backstretch and went past the three quarters in 1:27.3.

Miss Galvinator A and Andy Miller came first-over, followed by Vysoke Tatry and Richard Zeron just before the 1:55.2 mile.

Vysoke Tatry tipped three wide and accelerated into the lead at the head of the stretch, but it wasn�t until Miss Galvinator tired and backed up enough that MacDonald could get out from behind the tiring Invitro and overtake Vysoke Tatry by a neck at the wire.

Owned by Steve Calhoun and Michael Lindley, and trained by Casie Coleman, Moving Pictures is a 4-year-old daughter of DM Dillinger who has won three of eight starts this year.

Vivid Photo captured his second straight Trotting Classic final Saturday night at Mohawk Raceway, prevailing by one-half length over JM Vangogh in 2:39 over the 1 3/8-mile distance in the $265,350 ( C ) event. Hez Striking was third.

Elvis Cole and Corey Callahan set the pace as the field followed in single file during opening fractions of :28 and :57.2.

Favored Sand Vic moved from the pocket to the lead at the 1:27.2 three quarters, but Man About Town quickly swept into the lead with Vivid Photo and Roger Hammer pulling up first-over as the mile was passed in 1:55.

Vivid Photo sat outside the leader until the mile and quarter was passed in 2:23.3, then the 5-year-old gelded son of SJ�s Photo began to pull away before JM Vangogh made a late rally to be second.

Hammer trains and co-owns the 2005 Hambletonian winner with Todd Schadel. This was the second victory of the year in only three starts for Vivid Photo.

Buck I St Pat, last or next to last for most of the 1 3/8-mile distance, rallied four wide at the head of the stretch, swooped past Birminghim and held off Passionate Glide by a length for a 2:40.3 victory in the $265,350 ( C ) Classic Oaks final at Mohawk Saturday night.

Birminghim and Trevor Ritchie swept into the lead off an opening quarter in :28.1 by Mystical Sunshine. She continued to cut fractions of :57.3, and 1:27.3 and when she passed the mile marker in 1:56.1 Ritchie had Birminghim opening up. But at the back of the field Buck I St Pat and Passionate Glide began their rally and in the lane Brian Sears had Buck I St Pat wearing down the leader and going right on by for the victory by a length with Passionate Glide two lengths ahead of Birminghim at the wire.

Owned by Howard Taylor, Edwin Gold, Abraham Basen and Ronald Fuller, Buck I St Pat, a 4-year-old daughter of Jailhouse Jesse, won for the fifth time in eight starts this year for trainer Ron Parsons.

Boulder Creek swept the pace-setting Lis Mara in deep stretch and captured the $265,350 ( C ) Pacing Classic at Mohawk Raceway Saturday night in 2:33.2, a world record for the 1 3/8 mile distance. Lis Mara held on for second over the fast-closing Artistic Fella.

The field of five was reduced to four with the scratch of Shark Gesture, and it was Boulder Creek and Daniel Dube who went to the opening quarter in :28.2. But Brian Sears didn�t like the slow pace and swept Lis Mara into the lead and went on to cut fractions of :56.3, 1:24.1, 1:51.1 for the mile, and 2:18.4 for the mile and a quarter.

The victory was the second this year in nine starts for Boulder Creek, but it was the third straight Pacing Classic final victory for the 7-year-old Pacific Rocket gelding trained by Mark Silva for owners Clifford Siegel, Lee Wasserman and John Fodera.

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