Dobson takes aim at Mighty M driving title

Winning races is nothing new to Billy Dobson. Last year alone he won 290 times. Though his wins are plentiful rarely does he win five on a single program like he did at Monticello Raceway on Thursday afternoon.

 

Dobson started the day slowly and didn’t visit the winner's circle until he won the fifth race with  Art Green’s Julia’s Girl ($3.30) in 2:00.3. Beginning in the seventh race he proceeded to  strung together four wins in a row. He copped the seventh with Mary Abbott’s Fox Valley Valhala ($10.60) in 2:00.1 and then won the next race with Jack and Rose Deluca’s Radical Reaction ($6.30) in 1:58.2.

 

Dobson wasted no time returning to the winner's circle when he won the ninth race with the Deluca's Merle’s  Boy N ($6.30) in 2:00.1. Dobson capped his winning spree reining Howard and Joshua Kaufman’s trotter SJ’s Leo ($66) to a 2:02.4 triumph in the 10th race.

 

“It’s funny how things work out. When everything’s right, everything’s right. And everything went my way today,” Dobson said. “It’s been a long time coming.”

 

Dobson, who made the Mighty M his first stop after coming in from the Midwest two years ago, says he plans on racing regularly at Monticello this year and is giving fair warning to all others.

 

“I’m going to try to win the driving title at Monticello this season,” he said. (Monticello)