Milliondollarsmile equals Mohawk mark

After missing round one of the Town Pro Pacing Series, Milliondollarsmile dropped in Monday night and equaled her own track record with a devastating 1:50.2 win in one of two $18,000(C) divisions at Mohawk Racetrack.

Randy Waples had the strapping daughter of Million Dollar Cam-Hilarious on top at every call through splits of :27, :55 and 1:23.1, before kicking in with a :27.1 final quarter to win going away.

"She’s so good right now and doing it so easy," said Waples. "I was shocked when the half came up in 55 seconds. I really tried to get a breather into her in the third quarter, and then she went out and paced in :28.1. I can’t believe she is going those fractions so effortlessly. I had a lot of respect for Mike’s (Saftic and Soggy Britches) filly, but nobody came to us in the stretch. I idled my filly down in deep stretch and she still paced in 1:50.2. She could have gone in 1:49 tonight if someone was chasing her. She is as good as anything I’ve ever driven."

Milliondollarsmile set a track and Ontario Sire Stakes record when she captured the July 1 Gold final at Mohawk. With a gap in the OSS schedule, it allowed her to enter this series and she wasted no time in stamping herself as the horse to beat in next week’s final.

The victory was the fifth in 11 tries this season for the Shawn Robinson trainee and boosted her seasonal take to more than $138,000(C) for owners Morris and Brett Wright of Hamilton and Connor Wright of Dundas, Ont.

In this evening’s other division, Sweet Day extended her current win streak to three with a comfortable front-end victory in 1:54. She was also victorious in a lifetime best of 1:53.3 in last week’s opening leg.

The chestnut filly started her career going 0-for-9, but has suddenly hit her best stride for trainer Stephen Charlton.

"She’s a little bit lazy, but she’s coming around," said Charlton. "She waits on horses and doesn’t do anything more than she has to. I think she’s a better follower than a leaver. I watched her sire (Draft Day) race in Windsor when I was there, and the dam is a 100-percent producer. She’s a lot like the sire; he was lazy, too."

Sweet Day now has three wins in seven starts overall this season and is poised for a possible series sweep next Monday for owner John Dalfonsi of Dearborn, Mich. (WEG)

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