Snow White right back in Friday's Duenna Invitational

Although most people expected the top 3-year-old filly trotter Snow White to get some time off after making a break last Saturday in her Hambletonian Oaks elimination, she was entered right back by trainer and co-owner Kevin Lare for Friday night’s $32,000 Duenna Invitational at the Meadowlands. Snow White has been made the 8-5 morning-line choice in the 12-horse field by track handicapper Dave Brower.

“We’ve been working on her so hopefully we’ll have a new horse,” co-owner Curtis Larrimore told harnessracing.com Wednesday morning. “Kevin (Lare) had some vet work done on her and we’re going to move forward. Hopefully she’ll come back and race well for us Friday night.”

Snow White trotted a world-record 1:52.4 mile last fall at Lexington on her way to an all-time high of $1,252,646 in freshman earnings. Much of the trotting talk last winter centered on a possible Hambletonian showdown between Snow White and the colt Deweycheatumnhowe, the respective Dan Patch Award winners among their division last year.

Although Dewey has remained unbeaten heading into Saturday’s $1.5 million Hambletonian, Snow White stumbled in her season debut when she made a break in the Coaching Club Oaks. Although Snow White rebounded by winning both her elim and the $350,000 final of the Delvin Miller, her connections decided to bypass the Hambo and keep her in against her divisional peers in the Oaks. Racing first-over for John Campbell, she once again made a break to take her out of contention.

Afterward, Lare said the daughter of Self Possessed had issues in her right hind leg that he needed to address.

“Of course we’re disappointed,” said Larrimore on not having the chance to see Snow White compete in the Oaks on Saturday, adding that he and his partners will also be at the Meadowlands Thursday rooting on All Our None in the Sweetheart final and on Saturday for Thong in the Mistletoe Shalee.

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