Lather up Monday at Dover

Lather Machine returns to the $37,500 Preferred Pace, Poppy Lustre N heads the $35,000 Delaware Special and Quick And Deadly is back in the $28,000 Open Pace on a power-packed Monday afternoon card at Dover Downs.

After a visit to the Meadowlands, Gary and Barbara Iles' Lather Machine will have Tim Tetrick driving. The Badlands Hanover gelding has won three of his seven starts with a second and a third in seven races. Last week, Scott Enman's Armbro Baylor with Tony Morgan came within a nose of victory in a 1:50 mile. Beware Beret, driven by Ron Pierce for Erika and John Paradee and Mike Zimmerman, was a close-up third. Fred and Anita Fialkow's Keystone Rodeo and Brad Hanners finished fourth.

There is little that has not be said about Poppy Lustre N. The 6-year-old Direct Flight mare now owned by Ricky Pryor and Wendy Crissman won this event last week with Tetrick driving, after setting a 1:50 world record for an older mare pacer over a five-eighths mile track in the Mares Open the week before. Bonnie Allen and Brenda Harper's Prince Of Luck and Ross Wolfenden were second last time with Kovach Stables' Art Director, piloted by Pierce, third after cutting out the fast fractions.

The $27,500 Open is made up of nine contentious pacers. Mildred Ventriglio's Quick And Deadly pulled Tony Morgan to a 1:50.3 win last week. The Cheyenne Gang's Cheyenne Hollywood closed stoutly to finish second with Sears, with the Hanners-driven Artchie Andrews third. Steve Iaquinta and Bill Dittmar's White Hot Cards drops from the Preferred ranks with David Miller, while Wayne Givens and Donick Stable's What A View with Wolfenden seeks a third straight triumph. (with files from Dover)

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