Yada etc. takes Dover open

January 31, 2007

Yada Yada Yada A and Steve Warrington shared the spotlight Tuesday at Dover Downs. Yada Yada Yada A made good use of starting from the rail in the $27,500 mares open/handicap pace turning in a 1:51.4 victory while Steve Warrington drove Dance Hall to his 5,000th career win in the $23,000 mares Jr. Open. The sport's leading driver Tim Tetrick had a triple, Ross Wolfenden and Brad Hanners won two races each.

Wolfenden bided his time at the start and when the field settled move Yada Yada Yada A into the lead on the clubhouse turn and was never headed posting her first win of the 2007 season for owners Bill Dittmar, Steve Iaquinta, Henry King and Ken Wood. In the stretch, the Armbro Operative 7 year old had just enough to hold off a furious rally by the Tim Tetrick-driven Poppy Luster N flying four wide down the lane to miss at the wire by a half-a-head. Riley Rose, a four-year-old and youngest in the lineup, finished third for Sean Bier.

Steve Warrington won his 5,000th career race driving Dance Hall to a wire-to-wire victory in the $23,000 sub-feature Mares Jr. Open. Off at 8-1, the Blissfull Hall 5 year old burst out at the start from the outside post eight and made her rivals play follow the leader the rest of the way in a 1:52.2 lifetime-best clocking. Don Hawk, John Hynansky and trainer Dan Warrington own Dance Hall who won easily. Ain't Goin Back with Ben Stafford Jr. closed with a rush to finish second in front of Dream-A-While and Art Stafford Jr.

Kathy Davis' Seamstresforthepan raced into the early lead on the way to a 1:52.2 triumph in one of two $17,500 mares winners-over paces. Carousel Frame (Ben Stafford Jr.) was second. Flirtwithedealer (Tony Morgan) collected the third-place check.

In the other $17,500 division, Harness The Power and North State Street Stable's Cat Power with Jim Morand driving won a 1:54.1 decision beating race favorite Sherri On Ice (Tetrick) and Four Winds N (Ron Pierce) to the finish line.

Pierce drove Ron Davis' Evening Forecast to a 1:54.1 score in a $14,500 4 -and-5-year-old mares pace. Famed Artist (Morand) and CB Tune (George Dennis) were second and third respectively.

Mibby, owned by Howard Birney and trainer Archie Peel, rolled down the lane to win a $12,500 mares pace in 1:55.4. Allamerican Quiver (Morgan) was next with Another Wave (Brandon Givens) third.

Lady Best, a stablemate of Yada Yada Yada A, was the first of two wins for owner Ken Wood and trainer Eric Ell. The Cambest 5 year old notched a 1:54.2 victory in a $20,000-$25,000 mares allowance with Roger Plante at the controls. Pacific Pleasure closed well to take second. Flirty Feathers was the show finisher. (Dover Downs)

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