Dobson, Aldrich continue Mighty M battle

The battle ensues. Both Billy Dobson and Bruce Aldrich Jr. are in a dog fight for top driving honors over the first two months of the season at Monticello Raceway and the battle figures to go on until the curtain comes down on the 2010 campaign in late December.

 

At the beginning of Tuesday's race card Dobson had a two-win lead on Aldrich, 55-53. Aldrich, who’s nearing 3,000 career wins, quickly closed the gap after winning two of the first three races Tuesday afternoon over a race track soaked by the continuous falling snow. He copped the first race with George Munniksma and Diane Horn’s I’m A Nut in 2:00.3 and then won the third with PB’s Racing Stable’s Jurassic Hanover in 2:01.

 

However, Dobson quickly retaliated. He won the fifth race with Jack and Rose Deluca’s Another Mike in 2:00.4 and then won the sixth behind the Moen Stables' Blue Collar Raider in 2:00.3. And he wasn’t done there. He strung together back-to-back wins in the eighth and ninth races to go  ahead of Aldrich again this time leading the track's driver of the decade by four wins. Dobson won the eighth with Cookie N Mo Sttables and Jonathan Klee Racing’s One More Day in 2:00.3 and he won the ninth with Mary Ellen Abbott’s Fox Valley Valhala in 2:03.

 

When Aldrich reined Sitting Bull’s Stable’s Waterfront Success to his third consecutive triumph, a 1:59.3 triumph in the 10th race, not only did it close the gap between him and Dobson, 59-56,  but it left him just one victory short from his milestone 3,000th career win. (Monticello)