Isabella Blue Chip Scores

Isabella Blue Chip captured the $435,000 Sweetheart for 2-year-old pacing fillies in the stakes record equaling time of 1:52.2, matching the stakes record established by Clover Hanover in 1997.

Isabella Blue Chip took the lead before the half and held on for a 3 3/4-length victory over Speed Date. Catch The Show was third.

“Going into the race, my plan was if everyone left on the outside, I was going to take her off but if nobody left, I was going to press on,” said David Miller, who also won the 2005 Sweetheart with Lonesome Day. “When I saw Brian (Sears with Catch The Show) leave and get to the front and Cat (Manzi with favorite Me And My Baby) was right there, I wasn’t liking the way it set up. I looked up and she (Me And My Baby) was off stride so I went ahead and moved her then. She felt really strong around the last turn. I asked her and she dug right in. She’s been a good filly since the first time I sat behind her. And she was that way tonight. George (trainer George Teague) brought her along just right.”

Trainer George Teague and his sister, Brenda Teague of Houston, Del., co-own the winning daughter of Bettor’s Delight with Only Money Inc. of Hartley, Delaware. They paid $40,000 for the filly who has banked $264,313. (Meadowlands)

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