Mare now 2 for 3 at Monti

Percee Angus turned in a gate-to-wire, 1:57.2 victory in the $15,000 Preferred for mares Monday, Jan. 22. Last year Percee Angus won 21 races. Now she's two for three this years.

On Jan 2, the opening day of the 2007 campaign at Monticello Raceway, Percee Angus picked up where she left off last season winning in a commendable 1:55:3. In her next start, on Jan. 16, the Blissfull Hall 5-year-old pacing mare came up inexplicably empty and finished a dismal seventh over a track softened by two previous days of rain. However, she made amends on Jan. 22.

For the third time this season trainer Lance Hudson secured the driving services of Greg Merton and though Percee Angus had drawn post position seven, Merton fired her to the lead. She didn’t take command until Jordan “the Kid” Stratton, driving Lazy Running N, left her go as they passed the quarter mile marker in a swift :28.

At that point Stratton probably figured he took the sting out of Purcee Angus and his game plan obviously was to sit tight in behind her until she tired. Stratton’s racing strategy seemed correct except for one little thing. Purcee Angus failed to tire and when the field straightened away in the homestretch no one could gain appreciably on her.

At the wire Purcee Angus was a one length winner. Stratton’s Lazy Running N held off Drinking Games (Eric Goodell), last week's winner in this class, to finish second in a tight photo.

Percee Angus, owned by Fred and Anita Fialkow of Wellington, Fla., paid $5.60 for win. (Monticello Raceway press release)

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