Pansexual continues Colonial domination

Pansexual continued to dominate the Horace Martin Memorial Pacing Series by gaining his third consecutive win in the $5,000 stake on Tuesday evening at Colonial Downs.

 

Racing secretary Craig Andow creatively made each leg a different distance, and Pansexual has had no problem whether the race is short or long. After winning at the five-eighths-mile distance by a length and even more convincingly at a full mile, the 7-year-old The Panderosa gelding had no difficulty at three-quarters of a mile on Tuesday.

 

Driver Chuck Perry unsurprisingly took Pansexual to the front, and his pacer triggered quarter panels of :26.4 and :55.3, then crossed comfortably in 1:23, three lengths in front of Honey Is That You. Western Duke finished third. Trainer Benjamin Gasque conditions Pansexual for John Dixon.

 

In other action Tuesday, Becky Zubkoff scored a training double with Joint Crusade in the finale and Bacon Hill Bandit in the fifth. With 16 wins now at Colonial this fall, she pulled into a tie with Charlie Dunavant atop the training standings.

 

Ron McLenaghan, a long-time competitor at the New Kent oval, had one of his biggest wins ever, from a payoff perspective at least. The 55-year-old Providence Forge, Va. resident drove A Canuck Eh to an upset victory in the fourth race and the 7-year-old Albert Albert gelding paid $110.60 to win. (Colonial Downs)