Megabucks N capped his remarkable comeback with a record-tying 1:49.3 mile to upset Temptation and Crazy For Ever in a $10,000 winners-over handicap Sunday afternoon at Colonial Downs and match the track and world record for aged gelding pacers on a greater than one mile track. Megabucks N came into the Colonial meet fresh off a 21-month layoff and promptly won two straight for new trainer Mitchell Small. Megabucks N appeared to struggle with the inevitable rise in class, finishing fourth and third in mid-level conditioned paces, but signaled further development last week when finishing second, beaten only three-quarters of length by track record-setter Temptation. Dismissed at 7-1 in the abbreviated four-horse field, Megabucks N showed his customary gate speed before yielding the lead to Temptation in the early stages. Temptation smoked an opening quarter in :25.3 and got the half in :53.2 with Megabucks N tracking a length and a quarter back in second for driver Richard Paradis. Temptation eased off the gas around the turn as the field continued single-file to cross the three-quarter fraction in 1:22.2. Temptation began to waver from his early exertions in upper stretch, drifting off the rail as he confronted a challenge from Crazy For Ever on the outside. Paradis seized the opening on the rail and Megabucks N surged through to take command in mid-stretch and open up a two-length lead at the eighth pole. Temptation and Crazy For Ever both fought back to narrow the gap in the final sixteenth but Megabucks N held sway by 1 3/4 lengths over Temptation in 1:49.3. Crazy For Ever was another three-quarters of a length back in third.
Megabucks N tied the record for aged gelding pacers on a greater than one-mile track with his 1:49.3 mile. Oneinamillion N set the standard during the New Kent oval’s inaugural 1998 meet and Spastic tied it during his Horse of Meet campaign in 2004. Sunday’s win improved Megabucks N’s lifetime record to 11 wins from 31 starts. Jason C. Cribbs and Ashley B. Johnson own the 7-year-old Life Sign gelding. (Colonial Downs)
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