Tracys Song extends her streak at Monticello

Win streaks come and go but when a horse strings together eight wins in a row it’s quite special.

Case in point: Tracys Song. The 8 year old Astreos mare scored her eighth consecutive victory at Monticello Raceway on Monday afternoon, March 11th with Bruce Aldrich, Jr. at the controls.

With her usual front-running style, Tracys Song out-footed her competition away from the gate from the six hole and grabbed command before the quarter mile timer read :28.4.Then challenged on the outside, first by  Jkdiamondsnpearls ( Zeke Parker), and then by  Skyway Hanover (Austin Siegelman) , Tracys Song  kept rebuffing  each confrontation  and held on to a neck victory over Skyway  Hanover in a time of 1:57 which is  the mare’s  seasonal best clocking.

"She’s just a gritty mare who not only knows how to win, but likes doing it,” driver Bruce Aldrich Jr. said of Tracys Song  after their victory. "The field closed in on her on the final turn but when she straightened for home we opened up some daylight and needed every bit of it to hold off Skyway Hanover. I kept urging her and she kept digging in.”

Now Tracy’s Song’s eight wins are just one behind season’s leader Artstanding for most victories by a Harness horse in North America this year.

Trained by Bob Lounsbury for owner Nancy Fugure, Tracys Song paid $3.60 for the win.

Earlier this year at the Mighty M Tracys Song was the stalwart in the Mighty M’s Name Your Price Claiming Series winning each of her divisions as well as the series finale.  However, in those contests she started out racing  with a $4,000 tag and finished the four-week series  as a $6,000 claimer.

On March 11th Tracey’s Song raced with an $8,000 claiming tag.

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