After kicking off the Red Mile meet Sunday night with two victories, driver Dan Shetler tallied up four more victories on Monday night’s card, including one with El Mistress Chesea, a daughter of Andover Image out of the mare EL Chelsea, she a $425,000 yearling purchase and a full sister to the $1.8-million winning mare Cameron Hall. Shetler started off the Monday night card with a 14 1/2-length romp in the opener with Winning Prayer. The 3-year old son of Like A Prayer recorded his third career victory, taking a lifetime mark of 1:57.2 in the process. Shetler also trains the gelding for the Eash Racing Stable Inc. of Shetler continued his winning ways in the night’s sixth race, reporting home an easy winner in the overnight race with the 3-5 favorite, Sugar Foot. Sugar Foot, a 7-year old Royal Match mare, grinded first-over against her eight rivals and coasted down the lane to win by over two lengths in a time of 1:58.2 for owner-trainer James Herald of A late driver change for the absent Mark O’Mara put Shetler aboard of El Mistress Chesea in the seventh race, a late-closing event for 2-year old trotting fillies. Shetler used a quarter move as the horses headed up the backstretch to take control and never look back, holding off Don Swick and Miss Inspiration by three-quarters of a length in 2:02.1.
The win came in El Mistress Chesea’s very first lifetime start for top connections, trainer Jonas Czernyson and owner-breeder Erkki Laakkonen.
Shetler recorded his third straight victory, and fourth of the night, in Monday’s eighth race. The late-closing event for freshman pacing colts had Shetler once again moving his charge,
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