Tweedle dum, tweedle record

Tweedle Dum tied the all-age track record for trotters at Pompano Park Wednesday night when he won the $9,000 Preferred Handicap in 1:53.3. The 6-year-old gelding by Star Challenge won by one length for driver Walter Ross Jr. and scored his sixth win this year for owners Diane Norris and Alfred Brotter. Gordon Norris trains Tweedle Dum.

Tweedle Dum is now tied with both Chucara Ahijuna (2005) and Hellava Hush (2006) as co-holders of the all-age local trotting record, and it was the 11th track record either set or tied since the meet started this past September.

Ultimate Sundance and driver Bruce Ranger went out to an early lead; Tweedle Dum and Ross moved up on the outside and took command before the quarter pole was reached in :27.1. Tweedle Dum then settled on the lead and took the field to the half-mile mark in :56.2. Guy Gets Girl (David Ingraham) moved first-over on the backstretch and Muscle Boss Vita (Tom Sells) followed that outside cover, but failed to catch the leader. Tweedle Dum passed the three-quarter mile mark in 1:25.

Then, in a :28.3 final quarter, Ross and Tweedle Dum were able to hold off the pocket-sitting Ultimate Sundance in the stretch and posted the record-tying victory. Talk About Me (Mickey McNichol) finished third.
According to trainer Gordon Norris the difference on Wednesday for Tweedle Dum was going on the medication Salix for bleeding.

“It was his first time on (Salix),” Norris said. “We saw that he had some blood in his mucus after his last race so we gave him an extra week off and put him on (Salix). That’s the only difference from his last start. He had never been on (Salix) before. It’s great to have his name back in the record book.”

“I just let him trot tonight,” winning driver Ross said. “They don’t pay any extra for tying the track record.”

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