Free flew home to a personal best 1:49.2 in the $46,500 Mares Open on Friday night at the Meadowlands. Driver David Miller tipped Free to the outside at the half and let her steadily work her way up to the wheels of the pacesetter Kellytuck Sophie. Free forged to the lead with an eighth of a mile to go and pulled away to a 2 1/4-length win over Ideal Weather. My Little Dragon flew home to finish third in her 2007 debut.
Trained by Kelvin Harrison, Free picked up her third win in six starts this season. The ultra-consistent daughter of Armbro Mackintosh has been first or second in 27 of 30 starts over the past two years. Joseph Alflen of Redondo Beach, Cal., purchased her privately on May 5, 2007 from owner-breeder Robert Le Roy Entprs. Inc. of Elgin, Ill. She previously raced for trainer Stanley Miller in Illinois. Her victory on Friday night was the first since she made her Meadowlands debut for Harrison on May 18. David Miller also took the $46,500 Open Trot with Swan Image earlier on the Friday card. Swan Image put away the leader Flamewalker entering the stretch and drew off to a two-length victory over San Remo Kosmos in 1:51.4. The Mark Silva trainee improved his record to eight wins in 16 starts this season. A pair of $35,400 New Jersey Sire Stakes divisions for 3-year-old pacing fillies was also contested on the Friday card. Platinum Hanover took the third race division in 1:50.3 for driver Andy Miller and trainer Chris Ryder. In the second division, Artcotic wired the field in 1:51.3 for the team of driver Ron Pierce and trainer George Teague Jr. (Meadowlands)
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