Tell All takes Kentucky Sire Stakes split

North America Cup winner Tell All, relaxed early in seventh by driver Dave Palone, rushed to the front down the backstretch and with a final quarter of :26.1 coasted to a 9 ¼-length win in 1:50.4 in a $20,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes division Monday night at The Red Mile.

The 3-year-old son of Real Desire had a 5-2-3 record in his three starts since his win in the $1.5 million NA Cup, but got back on track with the victory, just a fifth of a second slower than his career best which he set in the NA Cup final.

Priceless Edition, with Mike Lachance getting the call for the first time, used a final quarter of :26.3 to lock up a 1:52 victory in the first KYSS split for sophomore pacing colts. The gelded son of Real Desire posted his second straight win and his ninth of the year in 15 starts. This was Priceless Edition’s first start for trainer Erv Miller after being transferred to his stable by owner R. Peter Heffering.

Lachance also captured the third KYSS split after filling in as a late substitution in the bike for his son, Patrick. Digital Z Tam romped home a six-length winner in a career-best 1:50.2, the third straight trip to the winner’s circle for the gelded son of Cambest owned by MJGB Racing Stables.

Mind Boggling and My Fave Wave won their respective $25,000 KYSS divisions for 3-year-old filly pacers. Palone directed Mind Boggling to the 1:51.4 victory for trainer Ross Croghan and owners Let It Ride Stables and Mentally Stable. The win was the third of the year for the daughter of Cambest.

My Fave Wave won her split by a scant nose over Soggy Britches in 1:53. Andy Miller was in the sulky behind the Miller trainee as she scored for the third time in five starts this year. The daughter of Jate Lobell is owned by Kentuckiana Racing Stable.

Palone, who guided Godiva Hall to six of her eight victories last year as a 2 year old, was reunited with the daughter of Like A Prayer for the first time in 2007 and the pairing was sweet despite leaving from post 10. Godiva Hall charged home from eighth at the half to win the lone $50,000 KYSS division for 3-year-old filly trotters in 1:56.3, her second win of the year in six starts.

Trained by Pete Foley, Godiva Hall is owned by Gene and Steve Oldford and North South Partners 2.

There was also one $50,000 division for sophomore colt trotters and it went to reigning KYSS champion Prayer I Am, who crossed the wire first in 1:54.2 for driver Tom Sells. Kevin Thomas trains the son of Like A Prayer for owner Roy Dobbins.

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