Stacy Chiodo wins Williams final

Vince Copeland drove Powerful Committee to victory in the $15,500 top trot Thursday at Dover Downs while Stacy Chiodo dominated the final day of the Mildred Williams Series.

Powerful Committee is owned by Joanne and Tina Clark and Cantwell Bridge Stable. The CR Commando-Mystic Virtue 4 year old took the lead at the start and was never troubled until turning down the stretch when Sugar Valley Alley (Carlo Poliseno) put in a game try but could not catch the winner. Adam Gram (Tony Morgan) was third. The 1:56.1 win was the second for driver Copeland.

What A View scored a 1:52.3 triumph in the $12,500 pace feature. Brandon Givens drove the Cam's Card Shark-I Scene It All gelding to the win besting Crystal Art (Morgan) and Grand Duke Hanover (Jonathan Roberts), second and third, respectively.

Stacy Chiodo, who has won races against the top drivers at Pocono and Harrah's Chester dominated the Mildred Williams International Driving Championship for women drivers final with two open length victories to seal first place in the series which featured events at more than two dozen racetracks in the U.S. and Canada.

Chiodo piloted Jack and Carol Parker's Fire Everybody to an impress 1:56 victory by open lengths in a $7,500 male claiming allowance, the first of two races to name the North American event winner. Highfield's Boy N (Kelly Case) won the photo for second place with Bo Knows Trouble (Tammy MacKay) third.

She came right back in the second division to win just as impressively, looping the field at the three quarters and waltzing home a 1:58 winner driving Mike Cannon's Ain't No Misfit in a $7,500 filly and mare pace. Rose Show N (Case) was second in front of Prairie Steel (Anne-Marie Turenne0.

The win was the third of the day for Chiodo, who won a race at Freehold earlier in the afternoon. Case finished second in the finals. Ann Karin Larsen was the regular season champion. (Dover Downs)

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