	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31

Click here for RSS

Western Ace, Maltese Artist lead way to $345,500 final

Return Home

October 16, 2007

Send To A Friend | Print View

Western Ace and Maltese Artist each won their respective $30,000 Bobby Quillen Memorial eliminations at Harrington Raceway Monday.

Sylvia Burke, John Howard and James Koran's Maltese Artist received a perfect two hole trip behind pacesetting favorite Mister Big, who set fractions of :27.2, :56.1 and 1:23.3. While Silent Swing challenged the leader to three quarters, Maltese Artist and driver Yannick Gingras readied for the passing lane and surged by for the 1:51.1 win. Mister Big held second while True North Hanover was third. Holborn Hanover took fourth and thus qualified for next week's $345,500 final.

Trained by Mickey Burke, Maltese Artist, a 6-year-old Artiscape gelding, earned his 10th win of the year.

Kovach Stables and Teague Inc.'s Western Ace won in similar fashion as Jim Morand guided the 4-year-old Western Ideal gelding to a pocket trip behind pacesetting Jereme's Jet (Tony Morgan), who parked out Gold Dust Beach to fractions of :26.3, :54.1 and 1:23.1. Morand tipped Western Ace to the outside in the stretch and he paced by willingly for the 1:51 triumph.

Jereme's Jet held second while Tarver Hanover finished third. Mypanmar was fourth and earned the final spot in next week's final. The George Teague-trained Western Ace won his fourth race of the year as his lifetime earnings soared to nearly $1.4 million.

"I hoped he'd be a bit better tonight," said Teague. "I made some adjustments and hoped he could get away a bit closer and he did. Jimmy (Morand) drove him perfect and things worked out."

Western Ace also established a new track record for 4-year-old pacing geldings.

Morand, Tony Morgan and David Miller each won three races on the card.

The top four finishers from each division will return for the Oct. 22 final. (Harrington)

« Back