Echo heard in DSBF leg

Jesse N Echo, owned by breeder John Celii, won the first $15,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) for 2-year-old colt pacers in easy fashion as Tony Morgan took the odds-on favorite Badlands Hanover colt right to the front and led at all stations in a 1:56 mile.

Rets Lil Giant shadowed the winner from the start and finished second for Roger Plante. Main-A-Dieu, with Mark King in the bike, finished third.

Brad Hanners sat second with Carl Cocciolone and Bernie Horabik's Andiamo Subito racing behind odds-on favorite Mr. Aviator, steered by Kevin Sizer, until the top of the land. Andiamo Subito then rolled past the leader to score a 1:55 victory to win his $15,000 DSBF prelim and second race in a row. Mountain Air, with Herve Filion at the controls, finished a game third.

Another Badlands Hanover colt, Les Walls and Jack Upchurch's Jesse's Bad Boy, won the third $15,000 colt prelim. Eddie Davis Jr. drove the winner to a wire-to-wire 1:57.3 conquest, his fourth win of the season. Allamerican Reason, with Ross Wolfenden, was runner-up. Foruchu and Jim King were third best.

In the lone DSBF trot prelim, Secret Agent wore down public choice Swissonian, winner of the Harrington $100,000 final to win by a nose in 2:02.2.

Swissonian, with David Miller driving, led from the start until the final steps when Eddie Dennis forged Secret Agent up at the wire after a stretch-long head-to-head duel. Tom O. Lail of Swedesboro, N.J. owns and trains the CR Commando colt who has been in the money in all five-lifetime races. Mr. Consistent finished third for Jim Morand.

A pair of Delaware-sired 4-year-old mares finished one-two in the night's top trot. Delbert Cain's Go Sassy Go with George Dennis pulled away for a 1:57 victory, her third straight this season. Another CR Commando female, Mystery Solved (Jim King) finished second in the $9,000 conditioned trot.

On the regular program, Elmer Fannin's Make A Success, driven by Hall of Famer Ron Pierce, tracked down front-pacing Lather Machine and Tim Tetrick in the final strides to score a 1:51.2 victory in the $20,000 Delaware winners-over pace. Badlands And Art, with Ben Stafford Jr., took show money.

It was the sixth win of the season for Make A Success, a Western Hanover gelding, and put the 6 year old into six figures for the year earning $103,145. He has banked $561,538 in his career.

Doris Rice's Scotian Slick made a Morand-bold move on the final turn to pace past the opposition on the way to a 1:53.3 win in a $14,200 Delaware pace. JK Jack (Miller) finished second in front of Jagged Account N (Pierce). (From Dover)

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