Karpathos wins Pompano open; Hellava Hush scores

Karpathos ($6.20) trotted to his ninth win of the season with driver Joe Pavia, Jr. at the lines Monday night in the $16,000 Open Handicap feature at the Isle Pompano Park.

Pavia charged Karpathos to the early lead from post five to set fractions of :28.2, :58 and 1:26 to a wire-to-wire victory of a career best in 1:54.3.

The 7-year-old Balanced Image gelding has bankrolled over $232,000 for trainer-owner Geoff Howles of Florida.

Guy Gets Girl (Bruce Ranger) finished second with Duke of Stormont (Wally Ross, Jr.) finishing third.

Joe Pavia also won the 6th race with Doc’s Lenny in 1:55.4.  It was the seventh lifetime start and first pari-mutuel win for the 2-year-old Doctor Of Style gelding trained by Bud Foster and owned by the Ellacott Shaker Mtrs., Inc. of Ohio.

Trainer Bill Gallagher was three for three tonight. The first win was by the 4-year-old trotter Blessed Victory (Dan Clements) in 1:57.1 for owner Victoria Jackson-Carinda and leased by Gallagher.  The 6-year-old Cisco Hall (Dan Clements) won the fifth race in 1:56 for owner Joseph Chnapko, who also owns the millionaire trotter Hellava Hush (Richard Simard), who won in 1:56.1 in the tenth race. (Pompano)

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